Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
December 16, 1885

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V -I XVI. AUGUSTA. MAINE. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 1H. 1885 NO. 279. Catarrh Cured Catarrh Is a veiy prevalent disease, with distressing and offensive symptoms. Hood’s Sarsaparilla gives ready relief and speedy cure, from the fact it acts through the blood, and thus reaches every part of the system. I suffered with catarrh fifteen years. Took Hood’s Sarsaparilla and I am not troubled any with catarrh, and my general health is much better.” I. W. Lillis, Postal Clerk Chicago St. Louis Railroad. I suffered with catarrh 6 or 8 years; tried many wonderful cures, Inhalers, etc., spend ing nearly one hundred dollars without benefit. I tried Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and was greatly Improved.” M. A. Abbey, Worcester, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is characterized by three peculiar'.ties 1st, the combination ot remedial agents; 2d, the proportion; 3d, the proctH of securing the active medicinal qualities. The result is a medicine of unusual strength, effecting cures hitherto unknown Send for book containing additional evidenc. “Hood’s Sarsaparilla tones up my system purifies my blond, sharpens mv appetite, and weins to make me o-.er j. p. Thompson, Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla heats all others, and h wort.I its weight in gold." I. Babbinoion, 130 Bank Street, New Yolk City. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. six for $5. Made enly by C. I. HOOD CO., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar. As Strange as Fiction AND As True as Gospel. East Stoughfcon, Mass., Nov. 22,1885. To the FLOWER MEDICINE 00. Dear Sirs:— With great pleasure I send you a few lines telling you of the wonderful cure your LIVER AND STOMACH SAN ATIVE has done for me. I have been trying about every thing on the market, BESIDES TWENTY DIFFERENT DOC TORS, and found nothing to help me permanently. I some times felt better for a short time, b#t would then go down again. I have had the DYS PEPSIA and NERVOUS PROS TRATION IN THE WORST FORMS, but to-day I call my self well, and all the result of taking your medicine. 1 gen erally had a bilious attack about onee in two weeks, and now I have not had one since I com menced taking your Sanative, and that was months ago. I CALL IT THE BEST MEDI CINE ON THE CONTINENT, and I ought to be a good judge by this time. I am now 58 years old, am doing my work, and feel like a new being. With best wishes for your success, for you are doing a great work for suffering hu manity, 1 remain your sincere and grateful friend, MRS. THOMAS TRIPP. HprJVdAwJy-nr There In no nreil of tearing your lungs to twees coughing, when a tew drops of Adamaoii’sOough Balsam will relieve you. We have tried it and have found nothing like it. W.T. GILMAN, Honlton, Me. Adnm-on** llolunic C ough lliilMom is constantly gaining favor as a speedy re Hot ami permanent cure for coughs, colds ami kin dred diseases. A. II. LKW IS, Last Boston. C»?"TIm* nst entailing miicccmm of Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam, and the unparalleled Bale, tire Hutheient ev i dence of its superiority Over all other remedies for coughs, colds, asthma and I rll lung complaints. I —A. 1'. Christian A'/rocate. S One of the most rfflcacimiH of rnros I for coughs, colds and consumption is Auam I ton's Botanic Balsam. Several parties wittl L whom we are acquainted, among them em ployes of our own ottice. have used it wtui ex ceedingly beneficial results. Bouton I'tlot. My IIiiMhnnd hml a cold oil his lutigM mid utter using Adamson* Balsam lie was relieved and nnahy cured. No one should bo without it, for its curative pmpert ies an* certamly won derful.” Allis. H.O. tSOMLHS, Hotel £thugham, 1,435 Bresdway, New York. I regard Adninson’s Botanic Cough Balsam the be t.411 ado _ w. W*. PfrrY, Camden. Me. I consider AdnniMon’ei Botanic Cough Balsam t lie very best thing in the market for colds, coughs, etc. My long experience in dealing in medicine proves it to U* so. BENJ. SMITH, Bingham, Me. g Brunrtof imitations! See that the name of W. KINSMAN is Mown in the glass of the bottle. F. W. KINSMAN iV tU- A ^k Druggists, Proprietors, M V 3434th AV., N.Y. Price, luc.,35e.,75o.^ oct29ti&wly-nr cp/ammlm Catarrh Ueuuse* Hie Head. Allays tall animal ion. Heals Sores, Restores Hi e Senses of Taste fearing ft gmeU. A quick ssa»*w CREAM balm ttined u enrUble n#*s W JEIKf??* rule 13, providing no intoxicating liquors shall be sold in the capitol, Mr. Frye said that a majority of the committee believed the subject of that rule to be one that should be left to each house separately aod the com mittee had therefore recommended that that rule be struck out. On the committee’s proposition to strike oat the rule the yeas and nays were demand ed and resulted, yeas 20, nays 36. Mr. Bmwn offered an amendment, having for it* object the exclusion of liquor from the capitol, especially committee rooms. 1 whether for sale or not. Mr. Vest was opposed to the rule. Even one knew if a senator wanted liquor in ht’s committee room he would hare it and would risit the severest punishment in his power on any clerk who should “inform'’ on him. The whole thing was simply an attempt to meet the tanatical spirit in the conntrv on this question to which Mr. Vest would not give countenance. Mr. Brown's amendment was lost, ayes 21 noet 35. The amendment of Mr. Morgan's was agreed to. confining the joint rules to so much of the capitol as was in control of me two houses of Congress. (This excludes from their operation so much of the capitol as is controlled by the supreme court. Mr. Cockrell offered an amendment to the effect that any Senator or Member of Con gress violating the rules, should be liable to expulsion. It looked very small, he said, for Senators to be passing rules for the purpose ot indicting punishment upon common clerks “for conniving at the use of whiskev at the capitol, when it was notorious that' the dis tinguished Senators who voted to keep this rule inviolate, kept intoxicating liquors in their committee rooms. 1 he clerk, at Mr. Ingalls request, read aloud the wine list of the Senate restaurant with the prices ol the different brands, much to the amusement of the Senators. Under the head of "Madeira wines” he found “Black burn s Reserve,” the reading of which was greeted with shouts of laughter, and someone was heard to say sotto voce “good for Joe.” When another brand was announced as "bot tled expressly for the United States Senate,” the laughter was renewed, and on conclusion of the reading Mr. Uutier expressed surprise that the clerk had not found “cold tea" on the list. Mr. saulsbury thought it a disgrace that the United States Senate should tolerate such an invitation to dissipation as exhibited by such a bill of fare, and a disgrace that the capitol should be turned into a grog shop. Mr. Cockrell said he disliked drunkenness everywhere, but had seen more of it among the senators than the employes of the Sen ate. ile had known of an appropriation bill to be occassiunally delayed because of intox ication among the subordinates, but he had known the Senate to be adjourned because of the condition of some ot its members. Mr. Frye -aid he had been told by ex Senator Simon Cameron and ex-Senacor Hamlin that 20 or 30 years ago the Senate had been found time and again without a quorum because more than a quorum was drunk then he had seen a distinguished sen ator alter an attempt to rise in his place fail because ot drunkenness. Mr. Frye himself remembered when a night’s session of the House of Representatives was broken up by drunken members. Things had very much improved since then. Mr. Frye regretted tile remarks of the senator of Missouri (Cockrell) as codveying to the country the impression that so many senators were drunk during the ordinary business of the Senate that the Senate bad to adjourn on aeeount of drunkenness. Mr. Cockrell «aid he had not so stated; he had never seen so many senators under the influence of liquor that public business could not be transacted; he had never seen any thing even approaching this, but he had seen two or three or more senators, a minority, so under the influence of whiskey during the discussions that the Senate, for the sake ol decency, had adjourned. He did not think he had ever seen more than half a dozen at a time in this condition and could give names if desired. [Laughter.] Mr. Frye said that no reform had ever made such strides as the temperance reform within twenty years. He had been six years in the Senate and had never seen two senators in the condition indicated bv Mr. Cockrell; in-1 deed, he could not say with certainty he hail seen one so under the influence of liquor as to be unfit for business. Personally Frye would like to see all liquors excluded from the Senate, but if the temperance people could not get all the Lmperance they w anted, they had to lake all they could get. He believed 1 thoroughly in prohibition and wished that every state and every county in the Union believed in it, but recognized the rights of other senators and was not a fanatic. Alter further discussion of the temperance question Mr. Cockrell's amendment was dis agreed to—yeas 20, nays 39. On motion of Mr. Edmunds the clause pro viding tor the discharge of the clerks who should “connive” at the use of liquors, was stricken out In order to make the rule har monize with the sense ot Senator Cockrell’s amendment, with that clause out the 13th rule was then adopted. The 9th rule was amended so as to pre serve to the .Senate the power to appoint con ference committees, in order that the Vice President might not have it in his power to defeat the will of the Senate. The Senate at 4.50 went into executive session, and at 5.05 adjourned. HOUSE. Mr. Morrison of Illinois, offered a concur rent resolution providing for a holiday recess from Tuesday, Dec. 2U, until Tuesday, Jan. 5. Laid over one day. Mr. Morrison called up the report of the committee on rules which was presented Monday, and the proposed new code of rules was read at length. A general debate was opened by Mr Morri son with a short explanation of the proposed revision. Mr. Randall briefly expressed his opposi tion to the rules on the ground that the dis tribution of bills would result in increased expenditures. He sent to the clerk’s desk and had read an extract from the annual message of president Arthur to the forty seventh Congress recommending that no ap propriation oe made for internal improvement and informing it that a sufficient amount re mained from appropriations of the previous year to carry on all necessary works of im provement Yet in the face of this message, and in the face of the further fact that no es timate* had been submitted, the forty-seventh Congress had demanded estimates and had actually passed a bill involving the expendi ture ot nearly §8,<XK),00<J. With this state ment of tact he was quite content to leave to the House and country the question whether there had not been a tendency to increase expenditures under this plan of distributing appropriation bills. Mr. Hammond of Georgia submitted a strong argument in antagonism to the scheme ot distributing appropriation bills, pointing out dangers which would result therefrom. He was not ready to try the experiment so manv great men and serious votes had pro nounced against. The democratic party had just come into ascendency and was on trial, He was afraid to try this experiment when the democratic party had been posing lor years as a party of reform and economy. Mr. Reed of Maine spoke in favor of the proposed revision. For the last three con gresses* a representative of the people of the United States has been in irons. He has not been allowed to transact public business except at the dictation and by permission of a small coteirie ot gentlemen, who, while they possessed individually more wisdom than the members, didn't possess all the wisdom of this world. [Laughter.] He, for one, be lieved that the safety of the country waa not in the hands of any one man or say act of man, but in the general virtna of the repre sentatives of the people, backed and watches! by the people. His experience *11 that the expenditures of the United States were made in obedience to the wishes ot the people. He gave a description ot a new method pur sued by the appropriation committee in draft ing various bills, stating that each bill was referred to a sub-committee for preparation, and that the other members of the committee gave it but cursory examination. This com mittee on appropriations did the very thing which they thought the House could not be trusted to do, namely, the parcelling out of the bills to the various committees What he specially congratulated the House on was that it at last secured unanimous voice in favor of transacting some other bus iness than the noble and lottv business of the committee on appropriations. Since the forty-sixthCongressjthat was the only business which the House had been allowed to tran sact. Morrison gave notice that he would en deavor to close the general debate to-morrow afternoon. Adjourned. WASHINGTON NEWS. Nominations Sent to the Seuate for Con firmation—Annual Convention of the National Gunrd Association, Washington, Dec. 15. The President sent the following nomina tions to the Senate today William P. Hurley to be postmaster at Kocklar.d, Me. Herman A. Pettingill to be postmaster at l’< tersborough, N. H. llion Bradbury to be surveyor of customs st Portland, Me. Charles 11. Chase to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Maine. G. I,. Spear to be collector of internal rev enue of the district of Vermont. h. J. Pratt to be collector of internal rev enue of the district of Massachusetts. C. H. Hcnshaw to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Rhode Island Postmasters for New Hampshire—At Bow. James Grafton; at Centre Bartlett, M. W. Pierce Whittier. To be collectors of customs—Samuel J. Anderson at Portland and Falmouth. Me.; Erastus Redman at Frenchman's Hay, Me. Bradley B. Smallev, district of Vermont; Leverett Saltonstall, district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass; David S. Presson. at Gloucester, Ma«s.; John McWilliams, at Providence, 1{. I. _ To be naval officer of customs—Henry O. Kent, district ot Boston and Charlestown, Mass. To be assistant appraiser of merchandise— Russel I). Woodman, district o( Portland and Falmouth. Me. The fourth annual convention ot the Na tional Guard Association of the United States met this morning at the Ebbett House. The association consists of five delegates from the militia of each State. Eighteen States were represented at the meeting. President Gen. George W. Wingate of New York, made the opening address. Gen. Tay lor of Colorado, was elected recording sec retary in place of Gen. Alexander of Dos Moines and Col. Charles E. Bridge of New York, corresponding secretary. TYPE LIFTERS. McCann ot the llernlil Detents Hornes n| the World in n '1 vpe Netting Contest. New York, Dec. 15. The type setters’ contest between Joseph McCann of the Herald and W. C. Barnes of the World, for the championship of the city and state, began Tuesday in the presence of a large number of printers. Barnes finished 1000 ems in 29 minutes and 30 seconds, and McCann completed his first 1000 ems two minutes later. One thousand dollars is to be given the winner. The con test is to last four hours At 3 o'clock, according to rules, the men stopped work. McCann of the Herald had set up 80824 ems. and Barnes of the World, 7951. Then each man was obliged to correct his own proofs. When tile corrections had been duly made and the number of lines de ducted which each lost through mistakes, it was lound that McCann had 70024 ems to his credit and Barnes 6376. McCann was de clared the winner. BOSTON ELECTION. O’Brien Elected floyor by Over SOOO Majority. Boston, Dec. 15. The municipal election today resulted in tlie election of Hugh O’Brien, democratic nominee for mayor, by a majority of 8597, the largest ever given in Boston. The total vote was O’Brien, dem., 26,677; Clark, rep., lw,080. Last year the vote was O'Brien, 27,494; Martin, rep 24,168. John P. Dore, dem., is elected street com missioner. The aldermen will stand 6 re publicans and 6 democrats, and the common council 31 repunlicans to 41 democrats. The majority for Dore was 7267 and the majority lor license was 9969 in a total vote of 31.001. The democrats elected all of their candidates for school committee, mak ing a clean sweep. In Lynn, Hart, workingman'a candidate, is elected by 559 majority, over Beebe, citizens candidate. The board of aldermen will stand, 7 workingmen and 1 citizen, and the council, 9 workingmen and 13 citizens. Vote on license, yes 3552, no 2672. At N'ewhurvport Charles C. Datne. inde pendent citizens candidate, was elected mayor over Andrew K. Curtis, workingmen’s, dem ocrat and citizens candidate, by a vote of 1060 to 660. MEANS BUSIN EM. Ilaknlu Bound to be a state—Forming ol a Legislature. Huron, Dak., Dec. 15. The first legislature of the proposed state of Dakota assembled at Huron, Monday morning. Under the const,tution it was made the duty of Gen. Hugh J. Campbell, chair man ol the state executive committee, to call the House to order and swi-ar in the mem bers. This duty was done by him to the House, 90 out of 99 m-mbert being present. At 4 P. M. Judge Campbell administered the oath to the Senate and state officers A joint resolution was adopted that they would meet in joint session Tuesday noon to elect sena tors. Meeting ol the New Hampshire State Grange. Manchaster, N. H., Dec. 15. The 12th annual session of the New Hamp shire State Grange, which convened here to day, was attended bv over three hundred members. Col. Stinson, master, in his an nual address stated that during the year six granges have been organized, making the total number of active granges 77, with two pomona granges; total membership, 4422: gain. 477 during the year; cash on hand and on deposit, <1310. Other offlears presented reports, all showing a satisfactory condition of affairs. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. Two Traloa Wrecked oa a Georgia Railroad—Elerea Peraoaa Killed. _ Atlanta, Ga„ I)*c. 15. One of the moat terrible railroad accidents ever known in Georgia occurred Monday mght at midnight filt. en miles from this cttv, on the Georgia Pacific road. The East TenneM* e and Geonri* Pacific road uac the same track to Austell, and Monday night the Georgia Pac.fic mixed train with a' c .a.-h and one sleeper stopj^d at a tank to g t water. 1 he coach and sleeper were on a trestle thirty feet high. The East Tennessee passenger train, going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, struck the sleeper and the engine went nt arlv half through it The wreck was terrible, rile firman sprang overboard and escaped with slight injuries. The engineer held to the throttle and was unhurt Twelve pas sengers on the Georgia Pac.fic train were killed. Three persons were fatally and ten others seriously injured. ANOTHKN ACCOUNT. A Irightlul accident occurred on the Georgia Pacific railroad shortly after mid night Monday night, fifteen miles from At lanta, in which eleven lives were lost and three persona were so badly injured that it is thought dealt, will result. The circumstan ces of the wreck are as follows l he East Tennessee and Georgia Pacific roads use the same tracks from Atlanta to Austell, where they diverge, one going weat and the other north. They however leave the city from ditlcrcnt depots and meet juat at the city limits, ami from there they use the same track to Anst. II. Just on. mile cast of Austell towards Atlanta Is a water tank used by the Georgia Pacific. The night passenger train ot the Georgia Pacific leaves here at 10 o clock and the East Tennessee train at 10 4a. East night, however, the Georgia Pacific train was somewhat delayed, and when it slopped at the water tank was on the Ea»t Tennessee time. The East Ten nessee train came Hying around a curve near the water tank and without a moment's warn ing went crashing into the rear ot the Georgia Pacific train. Engineer ilwen and the fire man of the east bound train saw the Georgia Pacific train, Imt too late to avoid a coUison, The fireman jumped from the engine, but the fireman remained at his post, reversing the engine and applying brakes He was un able, however, to avert the* collision. Theengino tore into the rear coach, which tclescop. d the one in from, which in turn was forced into the one ahead ot it. The rear coach was tilled with passengers, many of whom were so pinned down by the wreck that they were unable to stir, and the escaping steam aoon caused the death of five or six. The cries of the injured rent the sir. All was dark ness and the statements of those who hastened to the scene are to the effect that words can noi describe the awful situation. As soon as possible the East Tennessee train was barked from the wreck and the work of removing the dead and wounded commenced. Krom Austell a message was sent to Atlanta a-king lor help. At 2.2.) a tram left here bearing physicians and several railroad officials. The officers of the road immediately set at w .rk ,lo have the track cleared, which was done at 8.JO this morning. About 7.HO, A. M., a train left Anstell for Atlanta with the dead and injured, arriving at 8.05. The dead were placed on biers in an undertaking establish ment. Hundreds of people have crowded its doors all day. The blame of the accident cannot be placed and an Investigation will he necessary to set tle it. I'll*- East Tennessee conductor says he was on his time and following the schedule and directions in full. The Georgia Pacific conductor says he had no official knowledge ot the night passenger train of the East Tennessee and ran out as he has always done. The coroner's inquest has been going on all day. Election ol n United States Nenntnr. Richmond, Vi., Dec. 15. The legislature today balloted for United Stales senator to succeed Gen. Malione, with the following result: Senate—John W. Daniel, 2ti; Malione, 8. House—Daniel, 70; Malione 28 Tomorrow the two houses will ratify the election in joint convention. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Chicago Produce Market. CHICAUu, Dec IS. ri.OL n—dull Whssat-lower, No. a Chicago Boring, 84,*8411 Dec. 841 a 8S Cohn-higher at sop Oats- easier i8|. gra—steady, no Haklkt Brin ns Pork a v on a eon Card a SCO at OS BULK MKAT-sliouluera. 8 75, Bborl rib. 4M; Shor' clear. 6 2S 'c'» Vorl Nittrk Market. N«w Time, Drc. It ChtcagoA Alton, PrelMTnd. ms Chicago, Burlington A Quincy, I88| Brie, iH Preferred, tu Illinois Central, 1AHJ LakrHhore, A Mlcb Kouth»rn I8J Mloblgan Cantral. 78 New Jeraey Central, 441 Chicago N. W ]07l Preferred, 1331 N. Y. Central llnd. River, 1021 Chicago* Rook.11., 1281 8t. Paul, V2 Preferred 11A| Union Paolflo. 64 ffYea. Union Tel. Co 73J tVilrrtatfn Cattle Market. Watkktowx. Max., bee. It Bkxk Catti.k Receipt, 953; cattle maket steady; beef choloe a 40x8 60; eatru a 00 48 (JO first fjualtty at 7 00 47 r.o, second onullty too# (l 60; third at 4 00 a 4 to. Stork Catttk—worklnr oxen per pair at 1000 lit. milch cows and calves at 25(48; farrow cows at *.4(<0; fancy cows,60f)H0, yearllnjt I0(17;two yean I4/J2", three years 2lf|40; Hwmt Refvir.i, s.ttat Western rat, lire, 4x44 Northern dressed ho** at 5. SiiKr r Anti I.AMRS -Receipts 4,105 heads. Sales ol sheep In lots at 2 00(3 50 each: ’Xtra 4 00 a 4 50 or 2|r5|c; sprint lambs 4a#4; real calves 2|a(i 'cv Vork tlwirr Market fp«tnr Report Saw roRi, bee. 16. Money eiyy oetween Irom U a 24 and dosed a; 24 Prt m Mercantile paper, tat. Kachans*- ady 8*4 Tor Iona, and »4| lor snort, Government* s'eady f.ilpslrijr bid* Riftle# Thre-*,(ree.) 1031 New tj, ret.) lixi .(coup.' U2| .Newt’s, fret.) 132| fconp.) 134 t’scIteA'p 't»5, '36| New ton Produce Market. Nkw York, Dec. 15, k'lAiUU—Receipts, 17,045, exports, 10,873, sales, 13,. 500, No. 2, 2 30 a 3 M; fancy white western, extra, 6 30 s 5 50; common to Rood, 3 40 a 3 75; rood to Choice, 3 80 a 5 50; City mill extra, 4 80 a 4 85; superfine 3 00 a 3 50, St. bonis extra, 3 30x(50; winter wheat extra, 3 30 a 5 00; Minnesota extra, 3 30 s 6 06. Whkat— Receipts, 25,540; exports, 00.000, sale*, 31.000, No. 3 red, 80; No. 2 red, 84|; elevator No. 1 Red State, 9«4; No 1 White state, 951. Rrx—qalet. Raki.it—easier. Conn— Receipts 185,538 bushels; exports, 5,145; sales, 272,000; spot No 1, 42; No 2,601. Oats—Receipts, 38,960; sales, »0,oio; No 3,341; do White. 381; No 3, 34|slt; do White, 31 a Ml; No 1,31; do White, 45. Mixed Western, 344 a37; White do, 37 a 424: White State, 10 a 414. SooAhr—Cat loar and crashed 7 a 71; translated, 1); white extra C, 5] a 6;; yellow, 4ja 6j; mould, PmoLBUii—United, (0| bid. Taixow—caatar. Bxxr—steady. Poxx-Maaa spot, 0 174 a 10 174; (tear bat, Lama ntasd, 5 M.

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The poeition of Senators Hale and Frye in regard to confirmation of the President’s appointments will meet the approval ot republicans. No factious opposition will be made to appointments, bnt un worthy and unfit men, known to be sncb, will be strenuously opposed. The fair and candid treatment which President Cleveland’s message has re ceived at the bands of the republican papers is in marked contrast with the man ner in which the messages of republican Presidents have been almost invariably treated by the democratic press. This reform administration asks for $75,000,000 more with which to carry on the government for the next fiscal year than sufficed for the last year of a republi can administration. Here is a change,but not such as was promised by the democ racy during the last Presidential cam paign. The article in our columns copied from the Bangor Commercial, the democratic organ of eastern Maine, touching the post office brokerage business of S. S. Brown, chairman ot the democratic State commit tee, is interesting reading. Mr. Brown cannot plead (bat the charges against him are republican falsehoods. The Commer cial not only accuses him of brokerage in offices but denies that he acted under the authority of the democratic State commit tee. Governor Robie is an enthusiastic grang er. His address delivered yesterday be fore the Maine State Orange in this city, tound in the Journal Supplement this morning, is a thorough discussion of im portant topics connected with the order at the present time, and contains also a good deal of historical matter of interest. The order appears to he growing in numbers and strength and accomplishing much good in increasing the social as well as business opportunities of farmers. The Governor's exposition of facts connected with the recent meeting of the National Grange, of which he was a member, must be instructive and interesting to his brother grangers of this State, The Newspaper Press. One of the most interesting and valua ble publications that has come to hand of late is (he “History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States,” by S. N. I). North. Mr. North was appointed a special agent of the Census Bureau for the collection and preparation of statistics of this branch of inquiry, and has performed his work with fidelity and ability. His report. Which comprises a volume of 446 pages. U divided into four parts, viz.: A history of the newspaper and periodical press from 1639 to 1880; statistical tables; a catalogue ot periodical publications issued during the census year, and a chronologi cal history of the newspaper press of the United States. Of the 11,314 journals of 1880. 6429 were established between 1870 and 1880, 1731 between 1860 and 1870, 903 between I860 and I860, 1216 in all previous years, ami 117 with no date giv en. It is the remarkable localization of the American newspaper press which dis tinguishes it particularly from that of any other country, and constitutes what mav be regarded as one of its host characteris tics. The press of the United States is not concentrated like that of other coun tries, with a well developed journalism, but is localized. Every hamlet has its mouth piece through the printing press, and every city is independent of every other city for its daily news supply. Here is the first condition met of a healthy and progressive nation al journalism; and it is the condition which will always keep the American press what it now is the freest, the most self-reliant, the most loyal to home and vicinity interests in the world. Between 1870 and 1880 the number of hands em ployed in the newspaper offices of the whole country increased from 13,130 to to 66,015, the amount of wages increased from $8,168.61510 $28,559,336 ;the value of materials used in manufactures increased from $8,709,632 to $15,385,803,excluding all tools and machinery and everything but the bare cost of ink and paper.andtbe value of gross products Increased from $25,393,029 to $89,009,074. It should be understood, however, that the $89,009,074 of gross product returned for the news paper and periodical press does not bear any tangible relation to tho amount of capital which is invested in the business in the United States. The Mate ot Maine has an area ot TJ, 895 square miles and a population in 1880 of 648,936. There are sixteen counties in the State, in all of which newspapers are published. In 1810 there were but 8 published in the State, in 1840, 36; in 1850, 49; in 1860, 70; in 1870, 65; while in the last decade the number has grown to 123. comprising 12 daiies, 90 weeklies. 1 tri-weekly, 1 bi-weekly, 1 monthly and 1 quarterly, it was said in 1842 that the man was yet living who published the first paper m Maine 56 years before. It was about the sise of foolscap, and made up •f extracts from other papers, a fortnight and three weeks old, from New York and Boston. The 11,314 periodicals, issued from the press in the United States to-day, have acirculation of 31,779,686. Who can wonder, then, at the reputed “power of the press It is a power that is bound to intensify and expand until the remotest hamlet shall feel its influence. The most striking feature of the history of the newspaper press during the past decade has been its multitudinous differentia tion, the press of the United States, to a marvellous degree not witnessed in any other country .accommodating itself to the several conditions and pursuits of the people. In its early development all pa pers were established on the same plan, and discharged the single function of con veying at regular but infrequent intervals the news of the day. The first variation was one of party, to fit the different lines of popular thought, and this was accom panied by the introduction of editorial opinion. Naturally this characteristic, which was the first to develop, continues to be the most important. Two-thirds of all the publications in the United States to-day are known as political papers, and are devoted in their editorial columns to the advocacy of the fortunes of one or another of the existing political parties, and the activity and intensity of our polit ical life continues to contribute to the rapid development of the American press. The volume from which these facts are taken abounds in information and statis tics of rare value to those interested in the newspaper press, and now that the bi centennial of printing has just been cele brated this contribution to our national literature has peculiar interest. [Bangor Commercial. Chairman Brown s Case. Mr. Chairman Brown, of the democratic •tate committee, it flooding the Maine and B ’aton papers with interviews and commu nications, going to show that be is a greatly injured political innocent who has been de voting the greater part of his lime since the incoming of the present administration to the procuring of postoffices for such democrats as were properly vouched for by the demo cratic state committee, and that in conse quence of the failure of “some to respond’’ to his letters of invitation to contribute “toward his expenses” he is largely out of pocket a* the result of his unselfish devotion to the interests of the party with which he is at present affiliated Mr. Brown’s commu nication to the Portland Argus, which we print elsewhere, is calculated in some of its assertions to cause a broad smile to ripple over the face of the State from Passamaquod dy to Portland. According to Mr. Brown’s statement lie has “abandoned his law practice for six months and paid out at least 8200 more than he received.” We don’t know what Mr. Brown's law practice is worth, but estimating it at 81,000 a year he has lost 8800 in six months which added to the 8200 above men tioned makes the sum total of his contribu tion to the cause of reform in this State the neat sum of 81,000 (or six months. No won der Mr. Brown pathetically exclaims, “If tome one else will now take hold and do the balance of this work—for I believe fully in giving the democrats all the post offices—I will be content.” We trust that Mr. Brown's case is not quite so bad as he makes it out to be, and in case he should carry out the purpose which it has been announced that he entertained, of suing some of the papers tor libel which have pub lished the facts concerning his dealings in post offices, we feel quite sure that the testi mony for the defence would reveal the exis tence of a number of items to he added to the credit side of Mr. Brown’s office brokerage account, which that gentleman has apparent ly overlooked in his published statement. Mr. Brown apparently recognizes the fact that he is thoroughly discredited by the democratic administration at Washington, 1 and he attempts to involve all the other mem bers of the committee in his disgrace by charging them with “unanimously” deciding that the persons who got the offices should be made to pay the expenses of Mr. Brown in procuring them. We pronounce this state ment a deliberate falsehood. No such “opin ion” was ever expressed by the democratic State Committee and the members of that j body cannot be any too prompt io refuting I this imputation of its chairman upon its offi cial integrity. It is false, also, the statement that the com mittee ever determined upon the manner of parceling out the postoffices and requested j Mr. Brown to “use his eff irts” to secure ap- pointments in accordance therewith. The committee did vote that they would not en-! dorse the petition of any person for office un less his petition coutained the signature of the committee for the county in which the office in question was located. Mr Brown's visits to Washington to obtain appointments, were made of his own motion and for his own pur- poses. The latter were made clearer by sub- j sequent developments than they at first ap peared to those not well conversant with that gentleman’s thrifty disposition. Nor is it true that Mr. Brown has acted j wiihin the limits of ttie restrictions deter mined upon by the committee in making recommendations tor office. A great number of charges have been made to different mem bers of the committee and sent to this office, that Mr. Brown has disregarded local demo cratic sentiment in his recommendations for office, and so grossly in many cases as to ren der the existence of ulterior motives beyond dispute. Inaction Fraught With Danger. Inaction ot the kidneys and bladder ia fraught with danger, lienal diseases of the most stubborn and fatal character have this initial symptom. To disregard it is to invite them. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has the special quality of stimulating urinary secre tion and discharge to a degree consonant with health, and no further. It is not an ex citant of the organs, like the unmedicated stimuli of commerce. It simply arouses them when their activity and vitality are im paired. This stimulating and tonic action the Bitters likewise exerts upon the bowels, the liver and the stomach. It averts renal disease, cures dyspepsia, prevents and reme dies fever and ague, and removes biliousness and constipation. No finer tonic exists, and to persons with a tendency to gout it strongly recommends itself, as it is a fine depurent of the blood. declSdeod&wlw. How many people say; your plaster beats everything I have tried. The Hop Plaster really cures Backache, Stitch. Sciatica,I,ame Side or Hip. or pains in any part The beat porous plaster known.2oc. decladeod&wlw The Poor Little Ones. We often see children with red eruptions on face and hands, rough, scaly skin, and often sores on the head. These things indi cate a depraved condition of the blood. In the growing period, children have need of pure blood by which to build up strong and healthy bodies. If Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery” is given, the blood ia purged of its bad elements, and the child’s developement will be healthy, and as it should be. Scrofulous affections, rickets, fever-sores, hip-joint disease or other grave maladies and suffering are sure to result from neglect and lack of proper attention to such cases. declSdWS&wlw Sawed From the Grave. “A severe cold, ending in a bard dry cough caused me to pass many sleepiest nights until it seemed as though my head would burst. I told my friends that I must die. I was advised to try Dr Seth Arnold’a Cough Killer. First dose was a great surprise: slept all night in peace. It cured me right up Persuaded my friends to try it and it haa cured every case.”—Marshal H. Moody, South Hadley, Mass. For sale by all drug gists. Price, 25c.. 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. Dr. Seth Arnold’s Pills are mild and gen tle in action. decl5 d&wlw GILMORE’S NEURALGIA CURE is a positive cure for Neuralgia in the face, side and stomach. Sold by F. G. Kinsman. POWDER Absolutely Pure. mis powder never wanes. A marvel of parity strength, and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competi tion with tne multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders, sold only ia cans. Royal baklng Powder Co., 106 Wall street, N.T. octst&wlv All vice to MoUun. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest bv a sick child suffering and cry ing with pain of cutting teeth? If so, send at once and get a bottle of Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Strop for Children Teething. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, reduces in flammation, and gives tone nnd energy to the whole system. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Strop fob Children Teething is pleasant to the taste, and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female nurses and phy sicians in the United States, and is for sale by all druggists throughout the world. Price 25 cents a bottle. A celebrated physician declares that “Hunt’s Remedy will cure any ca9e of kid ney disease that can be cured." deel4deod&wlw Housekeepers that fail to acquaint them selves with the value of James Pyle’s Pear line in the kitchen and laundry deprive themselves of the most convenient and use ful article of the age. decI5-d&wlt Mrs. Henderson, New York City, writes: “I had not slept for forty-eight hours; was coughing all the time. Mv brother bought a 10-cent bottle of Adamson’s Botanic Cough Balsam, and the first dose broke the cough, and I was better at once. After using one 75-cent bottle I was cured. I have no hesi tation in recommending it.” decl5 d&w2w ARE YOU MADE miserable by Indiges tion, Constipation,Dizziness,Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is a positive cure. Sold by Bowditch. Webster Co My wife who has suffered with acute at tacks of neuralgia in the head used Athlo phoros. and its success was wonderful. Af ter taking two doses the pain left her and she has not had an attack since. John Auger, 129 Ilowe St New Haven, Ct. A Walking Skeleton. Mr. E. Springer, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., writes “I was afflicted with lung fever and abscess on the lungs, and reduced to a walk ing Skeleton. Got a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, which did me so much good that I bought a dollar bottle. After using three bottles,found myself once more a man, completely restor to health, with a hearty appetite, and a gain in flesh of 40 lbs.” Call at Devine Cough lin Drug Store and get a free trial bottle of this certain cure for all Lung Diseases. Large bottles 50c. and 1.00. SHILOH'S CURE will immediately re lieve Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchi its. Sold by Bowditch, Webster Co. Bad drainage causes much sickness. Bad blood and improper action of the liver and kidneys is bad drainage to the human system, which Burdock Blood Bitters willremedv. dec!5-d&wlw These are stolid Facts* The best blood purifier and system regula tor ever placed within the reach of suffering humanity, truly is Electric Bitters. Inactivi ty of the Liver, Biliousness, Jaundice. Con stipation, Weak Kidneys, or any disease of the urinary organs, or whoever requires an appetizer, tonic or mild stimulant, will always finds Electric Bitters the best and only certain cure known. They act surely and quickly, every bottle guaranteed to give entire satisfaction or money refunded. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Devine and Cough .in. MR. A. HIGGINS, of Wyoming, N. Y., says he had the Piles for nearly 40 years,and was cured by using Gilmore’s Pile Specific. Sold by F. G. Kinsman. The pain and misery suffered by those who are afflicted with dyspepsia are indescribable. The distress of the body is equalled or sur passed by the confusion and tortures of the mind, thus making its victims suffer double affliction. The relief that is given by Hood's Sarsaparilla has caused thousands to be thankful tor this great medicine. It dispels the causes of dyspepsia, and tones up the digestive organs. Try Hood’s Sarsaparilla, A NASAL INJECTOR free with each bot tle of Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents. Sold by Bowditch. Webster A Co. ANSON HOUGH, of Blackberry, Ills., says lie owes his life to Gilmore’s Magnetic Elixir. Try it. Sold by F. G. Kinsman. Chronic Catarrh.—I have suffered for years from Chronic C.'tarrh Six weeks ago I was induced to try Ely’s Cream Balm. Re lief was instantaneous, and continued use lias resulted in an almost complete cure_S. M Greene, Book-keeper, Steamboat Co., Cats kill, N. Y Was afflicted with Catarrh and Cold in the Head. I tried many remedies without any effects, at last I used Ely’s Cream Balm, which effectually cared me.—W H. I. Hil lard, Demist, Bordentown, N. J. decl5deod&wlw WHY WILL YOU SUFFER from Ague and Malaria when Gilmore’s Aromatic Wine will cure you? Sold by F. G. Kinsman. FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you have a printed guarantee on every boule of Shiloh'* Vitalixer. It never fail* to cure. Sold by Bowditch, Webster A Co. Know thyself by reading the “Science of Life,” the best medical work ever published, for young and middle-aged men. _may7d*w ly. A Stich in time save* nine and a bottle of Togus Cough Mixture may save your life. 6tAwwtf DRT BARD WOOD In all lengths, can be obtained «r Mr. Kandall Sylvester by dropping bins a card, or leav ing orders with O. HASKELL, BAKER LONGFELLOW, or CLARK ft CO. aovMtf Yankee Notions —AJTD— HOLIDAY COOD81 —My Stock Consists of— Artificial PlanU, Flower*, Foliage, and Batton Hole Boaaaets, Straw oad Willow Basket*, with Artificial Flower* A Fo Uage, Perpetual Wreaths. Crouses and other Cem etery Decoration*. Autograph and Scrap Albums. 5,10, IS and 2Sc. Goods. Bri&a-Braos.Perfnmrry and Fancy Holiday PreienU, Ac., Ac., too nnmeroas to mention. Fancy GroceHea, Tea*. CoFeea, Spices, Flavoring Extracts, Note, Candy, Bird Seed and Canned Goods, to which 1 Invite your special attention. BEST 5 CENT CIGAR IN THE C TY. J. A. FAIRBANKS, 111 Water Street, AU6U8TA, ME. aWCaah paid for extra fancy country produce. decltdeodliwAwlt BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY PRESENTS, -AT ART ROOMS. decl0-deod4t BONDS. Arkansas City, Kansas. I offer for sale »20,000 City Bonds iskucd by Ar kansas City, Kan-as, and can recommend them as a safe investment. Price and Information will be given on application. Bonds Bought, Sold Exchanged. H. S. WEBSTER, Gardiner, Maine. declftdeodtf PLUMBING, GAS &8TEAM FITTING. Z^ Public buildings and private resi dences piped for hot and cold water, steam and gas. in the most approved manner. Iy/ro» and lead water pipino of every description. tyParticular attention paid to house drainage, its ventilation, and repairs of de fective plumbing. ZtFWith a practical experience of sixteen years at the business, and the assistance oj THRE" FIRST-CLASS PLUMBER8 with their helpers from Boston. All favor ing me with their orders can rely on secur ing first-class work. Up All steam heating under the personal supervision of Mr. A. A. Sanborn, one of Boston's most practical steam heal ing engineers, with thirty-five years ex perience. «T O’. MTJ APS V1, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter. Wo. 8 Union Rlork, Water Street, __Augusta Maln«. julyUdtf ALWAYS BEAR IN MIND —YouCak Buy the Best— Groceries, Provisions, Tea, Coffee, Spices, Fruit, Nuts, Raisins, Figs, Dates, Prunes, Canned Goods of All Kinds. —ALSO— The Best Meats and Poultry, Celery, Cranberries, at as Low Prices as elsewhere in the City, —AT— LTJCXTTS HILL’S, Water Street, Under Hotel North. _ nov20dtt GERMAN AND FRENCH, Augusta, Maine. The Most Thorough Efficacious Instruc tions In German French, by the best of native teachers. Natural Method, (Berlin System). No Eng lish used in our recitations This method enables the student, in a comparatively short time, not only to understand the foreign tongue, but to -SPEAK IT Mod careful attention given to pronunciation. Free lectures and readings to pupils. Trial lessons free. I rices extremely low. Best of references. The professor will be in the city in a short time, toadies and gentlemen desirous of perfecting them selves in modern languages, will apply to Prof. A. W. Spanhoofd, Lewiston, declOdkwlm* Maine. Grand Trunk Railway, —THE— Old Reliable Through Line FROM— ALL POINTS IN MAINE —TO— Montreal, Pt. Huron, Hamilton, Detroit, Chicago, (i, Louis, St. Paal, Minneapolis, Bismarck, Kansas City, Council Bluffs, San Francisco, aud All Points West, Northwest and Southwest. tost Ritas. Bart Atcaaoditioai. _ W8*®th4t rrada, on the Grand Trank Railway, either from Portland, DanylUe, Montreal, or Suspension Bridge. E. H. WALKER, Angaria, Maine. w: MoBt"*1 N. J. GRACE. Amt N. ETSg-tJBo.ton. aagUdtf KEKSEBEC COUNTY.—In Probate Court, held •t Augutta, on the fourth Mondag oj November, i ooO. ALBION P. WATSON, Guardian of Freeman W. Pendleton of Jay, in raid County, minor, “aria* presented hit flrat account of Guard Ian. hip of amid W ard for allowance: Ordered, That notice thereof be giren three weeks aucceatirely prior to the aeoond Monday ot De cember next, in the Kennebec Journal, a newspap er printed in Angnata, that all persona Interested may attend at a Probate Court then to be held tt An gnata, and show cause, If any, why the same should not be allowed. H. 8. WEBOTER, Judge. Attrat -'—Howass Owen, Register. w3w47 VERY LOW -AT WHEELER k LORD'S,

UNDER CONY HOUSE, AUBUSTA, No Wind in This! Grand Opening —OF— HOLIDAY 600DS! Haring fitted up my Stock Hoorn as a Show Koom, I abail be pleased to see each and all to look at the Largest Stock of Crockery, China, Glassware, Lamps, Chandeliers,&c.,&c. Eb ony Finished Cherry Wall Cabinets, Pedes tals,&c. Baskets of all kinds. Cutlery, Plated Ware, And many New Goods from all countries too nn0u stable and carriage house Enquire ot Hokack Cony, tony House. nov.iotr IjlOR RENT -1 wo offices nt low rates. Jamks w. Nokth. oct!4tf FURS! We invite the attention of intending purchasers of [JNE FURS to our superb stock, w? have, without doubt, the best stock of RELIABLE COOPS in this line of any house in Boston. These goods are all of our own manufacture, hence we quote the LOWEST PRICES tor equal quality of goods. .Recollect that We Warrant all our Carments and that we keep no inferior stock. Goods purchased of ue are certain to give superior service and in ths end prove the cheapest. INSPECTION SOLICITED. EDWARD KAKAS 404 Washington St. BOSTON. uovird&wlm FLOUR. sst ;xxx Get the Best, —WHICH IS— PILLSBURY’S —BKOAITHK IT MAKK8— More Bread, Whiter Bread, Better Bread, Than any other Flour. ZS THE BEST. For Sale by All Flrnt-claM Grocert*. nor'-Wdcodlm POSITIVELY

No Cure! No Pay! CONSTITUTIONAL COUGH SYRUP! -TRY IT. The proprietor of thla remedy has such confidence in ita curative power a that be mskee the foilowinf GENEROUS OFFER: Any peraon buying a bottle la given the pririleri of returning it aarl reoeiving their money b»c*. after naing two-thirda of Ita contents, they have de rived no benefit from It. l*rloe SB and SO OontA SOLD BY O. rn. ALLEN CO. nov I(ld3m-ch-w Dry Milled Wood Cut Stove Lengths for Quick Kind* ling, from Bangs Bros.; or apply t° Benj. Copp. Orders by Postal Attended to. Dee. 10, IMS. deelldlw*

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focal and State fetes. Wednesday. December 16, 1885 A New Thing. Combination letter-sheet and envelope. Alio bill brad, and statements. The moat convenient, . Frank H. Gaslinet als., vs. Albert M. Gay. Titcomb Titcomb for pills., E. W. White house for deft. This is an action of tort to recover the value of a horse claimed to have been worth from 8150 to 8175. The pills, claim that they let to the deft, on July 4th, 1885, the horse for which they claim to re cover, and that it was overdriven so that it died within two hours alter it was returned. The defence is that the horse was not overdriven; that it was driven only a lit tle over 20 miles in four hours and a quarter and that its death was from natural cause, lor which the deft, was not responsible. Ar mament for the deft, closed. PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Commencement of the Annul Meeting of the 8tate Organisation. Worthy Honor Kohl. Dellv.r. Conors heulre Adrtr.ss. The annual meeting of the State Grange commenced at Meonian Hall, yesterday fore noon at 10.30 o'clock, A. M., at which time the hail waa well filled with members, many arriving on the morning trains, largely aug menting the number of the night before. Worthy Maater Robie and Mrs. Robie were •mUmg and gracioua, meeting the patrons with a cordial ahake of the band and a pleas teLZZ *ree,inK- A disagreeable feature of the forenoon was soon noticeable to one entering the hall, the temperature be ing little different from that out of doors, and the gentlemen wore their overcoats through out while the ladies were clothed in their ::apV, There nmch jumbling and Worthy Master Robie pronounced the haU as cold as a barn, which raised a laugh The meeting opened with Master Robie in the chair. The secretary called a roil of the officers and found them all present as follows Mas Frederick Robie, Gorham: Orerseer, E H. Gregory, Hampden Corner; Lecturer, IX H. Thing, Mt Vernon; Steward, T. H. Sprague, Topsham; Assistant Steward, A. H. Whitmore, Bucksport; Chaplain, Wm. Pari sons, East New Portland; Treasurer, S. 8 Smith, Norway; Secretary, I). M. Hall, Ban gor; Gate Keeper, G. M. Douglass, Cornish; Ceres, Mrs. Frederick Bobie, Gorham: Po mona, Mrs. D. M. Hall, Bangor; Flora, Mrs. E H. Gregory, Hampden Corner; L. A. Steward. Mrs. A. H. Whitmore, Bucksport. The following committee on credentials was appointed D. M. Hall, A. H. Whitmore, T. H Sprague, Joseph White, H. G. Ellis; Sisters B F. Carter, B F. Burr, William S. Rogers, A H. Whitmore Some discussion arose as to the^-legibilityof Past Masters to act in the meeting. The Worthy Master ruled that when a Master and his wife, who are the regular delegates, are absent, a Past Master and his wife are entitled to act aa members of the convention. He also ruled that mas ters of county granges are entitled to a seat in the meeting. I lie Secretary read a list of the granges and masters, those delegates present, an nouncing their presence as their respective granges were called. Messrs Nelson Ham, I). M. Hall and I). H. Thing were appointed a committee to ex ercise a censorship over the reports of the meeting, for the papers. A committee on resolutions was announced as follows: Z. A Gilbert, Hiram Conforth, Nelson Ham, Fred Kitehie, S. B. Gunnison; Sisters Grace Bowen, Mrs. E. H. Gregory, S. H. Higgins, Z A. Gilbert. Order of Business S. L.Boardman, L W. Vote, S. H. Higgins, E E. Parkhurst; Sis ters I). H. Thing, II. A. Hart, J O. Kyes, S. C- Watson. At 12.15 P. M., this meeting adjourned un til 2 o’clock, P. M. The secretary’s report is as follows H'o» thy Master and Patrons Since my last annual report four new granges have been organized in this State,one in Limestone, Aroostook county; one in Brewer and one in Patten; a fourth in Rock land. During the same lime three dormant granges have been revived, viz: one in Leeds, one in New Gloucester and one in Canaan. Only one grange, Union Star, Ed dington, has surrendered its charter. Five, however, are recorded dormant since they fail to make regular reports and pay quarter ly dues. They are as follows: Lemon Stream, New Vineyard; Pleasant Valley, Bethel; Cherryfield and Harrington The membership of the rd r in the several coun ties is as follow. No. of No ol At. mem- Gain or granges, meinta rs. bership. loss. Androscog gin, 11 9W 72 gain 153 Aroostook, 11 891 69 gain 196 Cumberland, 12 625 52 loss 2 Franklin, 11 701 64 loss 151 Hancock, 12 1001 101 gain 122 Kennebec, 16 1241 77 gain 45 Knox, 7 440 61 loss 111 Lincoln, 2 71 .16 loss 49 Oxford. 1.1 1010 79 loss 60 eenobscot, 26 2012 78 gain 26) l’is atuquls, 9 7i7 79 gain 19 Sagadahoc, 5 284 67 gain 2 Somerset, 11 761 70 loss 21 Waldo, 25 1*60 75 loss 24 Washington, 1 126 75 loss 69 York, 9 505 56 gaiu 1 Forty granges, one more than last year, have a membership of 100 or more Mystic, Naramissio. have 100 each; No. Somerset, Albion, Dirigo, Saco, Hollis. 100 each; Easton, E. Dover, S. Branch, Penobscot, 103 each; Jay Bridge, 105; Lake, Poland. 100; Eastern Star, 107; Pembroke, 110: Gorham, 112; No. Jay, 113; Enterprise, 117; White Oak. and Turner, 118; No. Franklin, 120; Canton, Csribou, Cascade, 125; Buxton, 120; Fort Fairfield. 133; Sunrise, Excelsior, 130; Bradford, Independent. U3; Briilg ton, 140; Paris, 150; Northern Light, 152; Sidney, 163) Lsmoine, 173; Norway, 200; North Star, Dixmont, 222; Rainbow, Brooksville, 253. We have a total of 184 subordinate granges with an average mem bership of 73 and a fraction for each grange, and an aggregate membership in the State of 13,531. There are two granges less than re ported last year, but a net gain of 336 in members during the year. D. M. Hall, Secretary. Afterxoor. The afternoon meeting opened a 2 o’clock I*. M., according to adjournment, the meeting being a public one The attendance wai much larger than in the forenoon, and there were many members of subordinate granges in this vicinity, and citizens, present in the ball, it being the occasion when Worthy Mas ter Robie delivered his annual adreaa. It was an able eflort, comprehensive and teeming with instruction for the patron and agricultu ralist. He occupied about an hour and was frequently applauded See our supplement for the entire address. At 3.30 the grange met in secret session. The committee on order of busines present ed their report, which was accepted. It Ax es the time of election of officers at 10-30 A. M. todav. State Lecturer Thing delivered a report of his stewardship. Since the close of the hay ing season,he said,I have been constantly pre pared to answer calls for my services, with the exception of about two weeks during the session of the National Grange, and I believe hut about 12 calls remain unanswered. Dur ing this time 1 have held 27 public grange meetings and 3t! private. I have found the granges, as a rule, prospering. Mr. Thing continued at some length, giving his ideas as to the best means of accomplishing the ends for which the grange is laboring.and improv ing the condition ot members of the order. At 4.30 o’clock, Worthy Master Robie va cated the chair, Overseer Gregory taking it, and a social season followed opening with music. Brief but entertaining speeches were made bv members, Mr. Charles E. Gilman of Houlton, Hon. Edward Wiggin of Presque Isle and Deputy D. O Bowen of Morrill, being among the speakers. The afternoon meeting adjourned to meet at 3 30 A. M. to today, there being no evening session. The committee on credentials did not re port. but something like 300 delegates were in attendance. Kennebec, Aroostook, Pe nobscot and Waldo county granges were rep resented. SHILOH’S CATARRH REMEDY—a pos itive cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria, and Can ker Mouth. Sold by Bowditch, Webster Co. _ WHY WILL YOU cough when Shiloh’s Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts, 60 ct*., and *1. Sold by Bowditch, Webster Co. ■(•lasses Adalt* ration. It will be a matter of surprise to most read ers to learn that the manufacture of what is known among wholesale grocers as “mixed” molasses is eery large. Thu adulteration is composed largely of glucose, acids and other deleterious substances, sometimes to the ex tent of 75 per cent and u always sold to the consumer as pure molasses. Although this compound cooks well, the sweetening proo erties are rery much reduced, and the con sumer pays dearly in money and health for an article that is apparently cheap and de sirable. The wholesome diet of childhood, bread and molasses, seems now to be a dose fraught with harmlul properties. The sale of this doctored material is eery large; and even in Maine, where the law is eery string ent against it, some say that three-quarters of the molasses sold is “mixed.” Legal measures have been instituted to have exist ing laws against molasses adulteration en forced but the consumer can do much to bring about a beneficial result by demanding of his grocer pure molasses.—Boston Tran script. UtRDI.VEB. A young man employed in the shoe factory became jealous of a fellow workman one day last week, and while under the influence of liquor, chaaed him around the room with a pair of pincers. He was arrested, but the other party refused to prosecute him. Mrs. Emma Preble had a finger of her left hand badly injured, Monday, by a block of marble falling on it. J- M. Mansfield of Augusta, and a man named Wright of Portland, went to jail for thirty days, for drunkenness. Rev. Mr. Allen, who is holding religious meetings in this city,claims, it is understood, to be a direct heir to the throne of Scotland. Maj. J. W. Berry, who has been confined to the house for several days with a severe cold, is about again. Mr. J. C. Landers has placed two more electric lights in his store. An optigraph of the Battle of Gettysburg will appear at Johnson Hall, Thursday, Fri day anil Saturday of this week, under the auspices of Brookins Post, G. A. R. The quarterly meeting of the board of mis sions of the Episcopal church commenced yesterday at Christ’s church, in this city, and willscontinue to-day. Services were held last evening by Mr. Park of Bath. Messrs. A. Davenport and W. S. Whitmore have returned from their hunting trip to the Chain of Ponds and Kilby’s Mountains. They had as guides Andrew Douglass and Joe St". Ober of Eustis, called “Indian Joe.” The first day from camp on Kilby’s Mountain they killed two moose, the largest of which must have weighed nine hundred pounds, live weight. They brought home about four hun dred pounds of meat and the hides. ROUTII GARDINER. Lawrence Bros., shut down their mill Tuesday, Dec. 8th, and will not start up again until February.—Mr. V. R. Beedles bed slat factory will not run more than half of the time this winter.—Mr. A. J. Stilkey will leave here this week for New Hamp shire, where lie has engaged as fireman in a saw mill.—Mr. John O'Brien and wife have gone to Machias to visit relatives and friends for a few weeks.—The Knights of Labor held a meeting in the engine house last Fridav evening, and received several applications for membership.—The Great Falls ice houses under the charge of Mr. C. A, Partridge,have undergone a thorough overhauling, many changes and improvements having been made. They are empty, have a capacity for 20,000 tons and will be filled this winter.—We are going to have a lockup here directly.—The steamer City of Gardiner, will be sent here as soon as necessary arrangements can be made.—C. G. Beedle and J. E. Potter ex pect to move into their new store some time in January. LITCHFIELD. Some sneak thief broke into the Congrega tional church, some time last week, anil stole about 94 belonging to the Sabbath school.— The Salvation Army has reached Litchfield at last, or rather a part of them called the Gospel Army, are to hold real blood and fire meetings at Stewart’s Hall, under command of Capt. Jackson of Bowdoinham. Meetings every night beginning with Tuesday of this week. The Congregational society will have a Christmas tree.—There will be a Christmas ball at Stewart’s Hall.—Mr. W S. Purinton has ar rived home from the Provinces, where he has been canvassing for nursery stock.—Mrs Charity Williams had a slight shock Thurs day night of last week —Mr. Eugene Camp bell, the popular stage driver between this town and Richmond, has just had a nice pung made to put on the mail route. He intends to drive a span this winter, where there has only been one horse driven before. Titwillow—-a lathe Mikado. On a bed, racked with paid, a weary man lay Singing willow, titwillow, titwillow! No ease or relief could he find any day, O, willow, titwillow, titwillow! His pains are now gone, he is hearty and well, St. Jacobs Oil made him as sound as a bell, And the story so good toeach one he does tell, Singing willow, titwillow, titwillow! Publisher’s note.—A Chicago paper says that the actor who plays “Koko” in the “Mikado,” at a theatre there, had such a bad cough that he could not have sung “Titwillow,” had he not recovered his voice by a dose of Red Star Cough Cure. Local notices, {gg**The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary will be held this (Wednes day) afternoon at 3. o’clock, in the parlor of the Y. M. C. A. The business session will be preceded by a half hour prayer meeting. $£gP*r>ressmaking or plain sewing by the day by Miss O. A. Webber, at Mrs. Ai Staples, corner Winthrop and State street. declfitlw*. {gp-Great Reduction—in crockervwsre and toilet sets. In order to close out my entire stock shall sell the same at cost; also a large lot of ladies' shoe polish, brush brooms, glassware,etc. Come early and get the first choice. E. N. Trask, State St. decl4-deod2w Ilorsford's Acid Phosphate. Well Pleased. l)r. C. Roberts, Winchester, 111., says “I have used it with entire satisfaction in cases of debility from age or overwork, and inebri ates and dyspeptics, and am well pleased with its effects.” Backlea’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cud, Bruises, Burns, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil blains, Cerns. and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price eer.u per lox. For sale by Devine A Coughlin. dec27dAwlv The importance and value of Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment to a family cannot be es timated in dollars and cents. It is both for internal and external use and will prevent and cure diphtheria and all dangerous throat and lung troubles. The wrapper is about all the value there is to the large packs of horse and cattle pow ders now sold. If you want a strictly pure article get Sheridan’s. They are immensely valuable. decl5-dAwlw Always call for Colgan’s Taffy Tolu. decHflw State News. Lnjcom. Knives and Brickbats—Eloped— Botish Spite Le»d* to Attempted Arson —A Horse Takes a Horn. Androscoggin. Sunday afternoon, says the Lewiston Jour nal, three men g>t into a squabble and one of them was quite badlv cot in the face with a case-knife, besides being struck in the side with some heavy instrument—an axe, the wounded man claims. His assailants have been arrested. Liquor was probably at the bottom of the affair. John Lane of Greene, a farmer, lost a leg Saturday, by an accident iu felling a tree. The tree rebounded, pinning Mr. Lane and crushing his leg. The physicians who were called found it impossible to set the limb, and it was amputated. Hoc. W. W. Bolster of Auburn, received Monday morning, a telegram from Sioux City, Iowa, announcing the death of his son, Alvin J. Bolster of Dell Rapids, Dak. One Peter Burns was held in $2000 bonds Monday in Lewiston police court for assault on Henry Boivin, a French Canadian, with a stone. Aroostook. A special to the Bangor Whig says Rep resentative Boutelle’s bill for a public build ing at Houlton. has been introduced in the Senate by Mr. Frye, and will be presented in the House on the first bill day. Cumberland. The Portland Argus relates that a young man, clerk at the Merchants’ Exchange, went to the theatre with a young lady last Friday night, but did not return home after the per formance. Saturday, it is said, the parents of the lady received word that the two were in Boston and had been married that morn ing. They were on their wav to Chicago. Franklin. At the burning of the Norton mansion, Farmington, one of the owners. Richard R. Norton, had a narrow and almost miraculous escape from death. In fighting the flames in the second story of the house he became dazed and bewildered by the dense smoke and could not find a wav of exit from the room. Rescuing parties searched the whole upper part of the house for him, and only discovered him by stumbling over his pros trate, unconscious body. Knox. Two ladies from Camden, one of them the sister of Rulus Carle, the man who died in New York a few days ago in wretched circum stances, although he had plenty of money, called at the New York morgue on Saturday, and made arrangements to have the remains brought to Maine. Oxford On Dec 9th, early in the morning, the Hawkins cooper shop at “Ten Mile Mills,” was destroyed by fire, says the Hiram cor respondent of the Hecord. Penobscot. A Lincoln farmer named Finson, in jump ing from a cattie car, Friday, tell backward under the train and one of his legs was rut ofl and he was otherwise injured. Mr. Fin son is about 50 years old. Sagadahoc. Last Friday evening two Bath High school boys, expelled members of the Phi Kho soci ety connected with ttie school, made an at tempt to break up a society meeting, and in i so doing nearly caused the destruction of the High school building, one of the best in the State. They entered the building through a rear window, took the chimney from a lighted lamp in the entry, threw it up stairs, and then ran into the street. The lamp did not break, and fortunately tile noise when it struck the stairs was heard by the members of the society,when they found the lamp cap sized on the stairs, the kerosene on Ore and the flames rapidly spreading, when one of the hoys with his overcoat succeeded in extin guishing the blaze. The two boys who did the work were arrested and pleaded guilty, and sentence was reserved. They told the whole story and the cause of the affair, which was spite? assisted bv a little liquor. York. An assembly of the Knights of Labor was organized at Berwick last week, with twentv four charter members. A cow recently purchased by Hiram Foss of Old Orchard, was put into the field with a horse, Monday. The two animals at once commenced a warfare which terminated in tlie death of the horse, tile cow thrusting one of her horns into his breast, so that he bled to death in five minutes “HACKMETACK,” a lasting and fragrant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by Bowdilch, Webster Co. ittarrtcfi. In Augusta, Dec. 13, by Rev. J. B. Jordan, Win. II. Pierce to Miss Katie .-'herm-m, both of Augusta. In Portland, Dec- 8, Chap. W. Marston to Miss Clara Alice McLellan. In Brunswick, Dec 5, Levi Spinney to Miss Lottie Pero; 8th, Geo. W. Pollard to Miss Emma Fish. lu CheHterville. Dec. 5, Frank A. Phillips of Ches terville, to Mips Lilli? A. Brown of Farmington. In Deer Isle, Dec 5, Wm. S. Pickering to Miss Mary W. Marshal), both of Deer 'sle. In Farmingdale, Dec. 10, Rev. C. E Tedford of Limerick, to Miss Eva M. Mears of Farmingdale. In Kockport, Dec. V. Wm. A. George to Miss A. E. Morey, both of Rockport. In East Boothbay. Dec fl. George A. McGunigleto Miss C. M. Seave.v, both of East Boothbay. At Bryant’s Pond, Dec 12, Geo. D. Houghton of Woodstock, to Mrs. Flora E. Anderson of Rumford. Hirti. In Portland. Dec. 12,Danie! Willard, a cod 53 years; 13th, Julia A. Spear, aged 27 years; 13th, Lydia A. Snow. In Saco, Dec. 12, Capt. Bcnj Mother, aged 72 yrs. In East Deering, D«c. 12, John J. Thompson, aged 70 years, 11 months. In Cu,f berland MilU, Dec. 13, Eben Larrabee.aged 78 >ears, 2 months. In Kennebunkport, Dec. 9, Lydia L. Creliford.aged 55 years In Lewiston, Dec. 11, Wm. Chad bourne, aged 48 years. In \Visnttle. We prefer tlrnt you buy it from your druggist, but if lie hasn't it, do not lie persuaded to try something else, but order at onee from us. as directed. Axiii.oPHORoe Co.. 112 Wall S net, New York. There i; no medium through which disease r> often attacks the system as by Constipation, and thero i3 no ether flesh is heir to,more apt to "»-9 neglected, from the fact material ^„cnvc::icnce may net be immediate ly felt from irregular action of the lo oLs. When there is not regular aolion, iha retention of decayed and effete matter, with its poisonous gases, poisons the whole system by l> lag absorbed into it, causing piles, fistula, headache, impure blood and nv.ny other serious affections. BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS will Immediately relieve, and one bottle pool lively care or relieve any case of Contipation. .Van troubled for a year with torpid liver and indigestion, and after Irving everything imaginable, used BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS. The Hist bottle revived me and the second cured me entirely.”—J.S. Williamson. Rochester, N. Y. Now is the Time —TO BUY— Christmas Goods. PRICES WERE NEVER SO LOW WATCHES, JEW ELRY, WARE, EYE AND OPERA GLASS ES. A good assort meat at A. Iff. WIGHT’S, Augusta. decl0d*>od&w3w HOLIDAY CARDS. FROSTED, FRINGED, —AND— NO VBIjTIBS —IN— Mau aad Sen This Cub, —NOW OPEN AT— Gannett A Morse’s. WThf Bel*. Assortment and Loweit Prices..#* FOR SALE At yonr own price almost, a large lot of faacy braid, tutcan and edging, ju§t what the ladle* want to make fancy article*. Yon can bay a* much or little a* you like. Come and see it at the Hat and Bonnet Bleachery, Oak Street. _dec-id tf_ Bonds for Sale. Guaranteed 6 Per Cents. Safe as Gov’t Bonds. Principal and Interert promptly paid at oar bank ng office. Prior, par and accrued interest. Over ten million! have been inverted in them without the lout of a dollar to lnvertori. B. E. POTTER h BRO., Anguta. Sept. 29, U89. *ept29deodtf CARPETS. CARPETS. PREBLB A KEENE, Gardiner, Maine. Preble Keene of Gardiner, have an IMMENSE STOCK OP CARPETS OF ALL GRADES. Straw Carpets, Oil Cloths, Crumb Cloths, Rugs Hats. AUGUSTA HALLOWELL S™ bt'“ REMEMBER wVvi •ide Ihow with b *b A We wU1 re,an> tickM free. c«rpw. .re only a Furniture Undertaking Are our regular burtne**, and everything in the above line* and Carpet* delivered FREE in any part of Augu*ta or Hallow ell. PREBLE Ac KEENE. drcltdlm -Q Attractive Toilet and Fancy Goods FOR THE HOLIDAYS. REASONABLE PRICES, -At Partridges' Drug Store. CHRISTMAS CARDS, TASTEFUL AND ATTRACTIVE SELECTIONS. ELEGANT FRENCH CONFECTIONERY, Chocolate*, Bon-bon*, Etc., A Fine American Candie*. PARTRIDGE KUO'S _Under Granite Hull. as?- S’. LITTLE. HOLIDAY GOODS WOW OPEN. -THE REST LINE OF BOOKS AND CARDS TO RE FOUND IN THE CITY. Z* ft S.I TTtE, GARDINER,-_MAINE. STOVES, BUS, ABB MACES. Messrs. G. B. F. A. RBBD, of Gardiner, beg leave to call attention to their immense stock of ovch. Tlniig'OM, FiirimoeH, Etc. Persons in want of anything in their line should give them a call. They have one of the largest, if not the largest stocks on the river, and their immense stock enables them to sell at astonishingly low prices. They also employ a number of First-Class Workmen and make a speci alty of PLUMBING, PIPING, AND HOT WATER HEATING, DRAINING, ETC. -Remember the plaoe G. B, F. A. RBBD) No 22 Water Street, OARDINEK, MAINE. w A1VIT 3Q 0 J All who contemplate having Sleighs or Carriages Painted or repaired, to call at South End Water Street, Who has the best facilities for turning out a first-class job to be found anywhere. I have ample store-room, and all carriages needing repairs and painting, will l>c stored through the winter free of expense. New and Second Hand Carriages and Sleighs for sale at Reasonable Prices. oct9deod3m HOLIDAY GOODS. Just received at E. ROWSE’S, consisting of Gold and Silver Watches, Ladies’ and Gents’ Gold and Plated Chains, Fine Gold and Plated Jewelry, Gold and Silver Thimbles. Gorham’s, Reed Barton’s and Rogers Brother’s Fine Silver Plated Ware, Spoons, Forks and Knives. Spectacles and Eye Glasses in all styles. LARGEST STOCK! LOWEST PRICES. Second Door North of* Post Office, AUGUSTA, MAINE. dMtrti W. Ur. Ml. MMimuli with Mr. T. Some, At E. Rowse s Jewelry Store; Who will teke orders, end make price, the seme ee ourselves. Ho Cherts for Hzpreee. FUNERAL FLOWERS A SPECIALTY. X. G. HUTCHISON Co. EM MM, N. H

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SKIN, SCALP, BLOOD Cleansed, Purified end Beautified by the Cuticura Remedies. -TOOR cleansing the Skin ud Benin ot Disfiguring r Hnosers, for allaying Itching, Homing and In flammation, lor curing the first symptoms of Eexeme, Psoriasis. ifilk Crust, ficakt Head, fierofhla, tad other inherited Skin aad Blood Diseases. Cuticvra, the gnat Skin Care, aad Cuticura Soap, an ex quisite Hkin Beau tiller, externally, aad Cuticura Kesolvkxt, the new Blood Purifier, internally, are infallible. HdCfsHT BUT 6000. We hare been selling yonr Cuticura Remedies for the peat three or four years, and hare never heard anght but good words in their furor. Your CUTICC BA soap Is decidedly the best selling medleinul soap we handle, und is highly prized here for itz soothing and softening effect upon the skin. .7. CLIFTON WHEAT, JB„ Druggist, Winchester, Vu. THE LARUEHT SALE. Our sales of CUTICCRA are as large, If not larger, than any medicine we sell; and we nssure yon that we have never had a single Instance in which the purchaser was dissatisfied. As to your '-oap, we tun •ell no other, everybody wants CUTICURA. MILLER fcruggi*t* for $1 00. A*k for Sanford’* Radical Cure. Time*," "The bent we have found in a lifetime of *ufl'ering."--/Jee. Dr Wig gin, Iio*ton. "Alter a long Htrutrgle with Catarrh the Radical Cure ha* conquered Her. s. If. Monroe, Lnri*hurgh, Pa "I have not found a ca*«* that it did not relieve at once."— A wire w Lee, M'mche*ter, Ma**. Potter Drug and Chemical C®.# Boston. •*r MUST HIVE UEf I cannot bear i till* pain, I ache all over, and nothing I try doe» me any good.” Mack ache weak neaa, Uterine naina, Morenesa, Lamcneaa Mucking Cough, Pleurlay and Cheat paiua cured by that new, original and elegant antidote to pain and ir.nninmutlon the CUTlCUliA ANTI-PAIN Pl.ANTKIt- Especially ad ipted to ludo h by reason of its delicate1 odor and gentle medicinal action. At Druggists, 2fic five for #1.00. Mailed free by Pottkii Diuto ft. Ciikmiuai, o., Boston. decldWft.S&wlinnr L A P I E 8 PROMPT ^RELIABLE. Endorsed by Physicians. It quickly induces the Liver to healthy action, removing the causes that produce Bilious Headache, Dyspepsia, Piles, &c. By the use of ___ HUNT’S REMEDY the Stomach and Bowels will regain their strength, and the blood will be perfectly purified. It cures reunite complaint* nml lty its use monlbly siekucss Is rendered painless. It Is purely vegetable, and meets n want never before fur nished to the public, nnd the utmost rclinnce may be placed In it. RELIABLE WORDS. •'He who lives alter nature shall never be poor.” A Clergyman. Kev. Charles Pike, of Waterbury, Conn., mys "I contracted a weakness of the kidneys, which was made wor-e bv drinking water in the different places where I resided. I suffered severely 1 pur chased a bottle of Hunt’s [Kidney and Liver] Kkm Kin with the guarantee that it would help me, us it afterward did.” ”ln an orderly house, all is soon ready.” A liratefnl Lady. '•This Is to certify that I have used Hunt’s [Kid ney and Liver] Kk'mkuy for the kidneys and other troubles with very ratisfactory remits, and would recommend the same to those afflicted as I was. Gratefully, Mrs. 1). K. Pi ck, Ansonia, Ct.” •’Out of debt out of danger.” My Wife’* Mother. Mr, Charles \V. Morris, Eagle Office, Pittsfield, Mass., writes:—”M\ wife’s mother had been in a very precarious condition witli dropsy, or Bright’s disease ol the kidneys. HUNT’S [Kidney and Liver] Rkmkdy has worked a miracle in her.” Price #1.25. Send for lllustiated Pamphlet to HCNT’s REMEDY CO., Providence, K. I. Sold bv all druggists. C. N- CRITTENTON, General Aaent, New York uov2dftweod nr-lm get the Best" HOP PLASTERS Kill pain, sooth© and stimulate th© tired muscles, aud wonderfully strengthen weak parts. All the valuable medicinal virtues of fresh Hops, combined with Burgundy Pitch r.nd Canada Balsam. Applied to Backache, Sciatica, Rheumatism, Crick, Stitches, Side Ache, Kidney Aflbctions, Sore Ch-st or any of the various pains and weaknesses so common, i List ant relief is given. Cares Dyspepsia and Laver troubles without internal dosing. Sold everywhere. 25c. 5 for $1. Mailed for price. HOP PLASTER CO., Propers, Boston. Msss _A. Wonderful STRElfeTHENER oct8deod&w-chxwky-nr-tf Maine Central R. R. Co. Annual Meeting. ■VTOTIOE la hereby yireu that the Annual Meet tug of the Stockholder* of the Maine Central Railroad Company will be held at the Director.' OfBoe In Portland, on Wednesday, the Sixteenth Day of December, A. D. 1886, at one o'clock la the afternoon, to ant apon the following article., Tin.: 1—To hear the report, of the Director, and Treaa arer, and act thereon. A—To fix the number of, and elect, the Director, lor the earning year. 1-Toutaprmaayotherbaalaen that may come before the meeting. Tar order of the Directors,_ _ _ J.H.DRUMMOND,Clark. Portland, Oot. w, IMA aoiWdtd *9atlu Hennebrc loumal. Laundry Lessons Before beginning to wash, all the bed linen and nnderclotking should be placed by themselves, the label linen and tea towels put in another, pile, the flannels treated similarly, while colored clothes should be laid aside until last. Stains of all kinds on clothes should be washed out before they are laid aside for the regular wash. Spots on table linen usually yield readily to soap and warm water; wine stains should be covered with salt, wet, and rinsed out; fruit stains may be re moved by pouring boiling water over them before thev are wet; coal oil and common baking soda mixed in equal parts will have the same effect. To remove ink stains dip the part in hot tallow, or wash In new milk. If clothes are iron molded, use oxalic acid, which will also remove mildew. Paint can be washed from any article by rubbing with lard and then washing. As to the time clothes should be boiled a great difference of opinion exists. Some very excellent authorities on the subject condemn the practice, and advise scalding instead if boiled, it should only be for ten or fifteen minutes, as long boiling is sure to discolor clothes; after they are scalded or boiled add blue water and wash clean through the suds, then rinse through plenty of clear cold water, be fore taking through the process ot bluing, then wring as dry as possible; and this is ona of the most important operations of the work, as clothes with the water left in them will be streaked and yellow. There are now so many excellent wringers that every family should be supplied with one: but if clothes are wrung by hand, thev ghould be gath- i ered in a twist evenly, and then wrung I with a gentle squeezing motbn until the j water is all extracted. As soon as wrung all garments should be at once shaken 1 from their folds and hung out to dry. Colored prints and muslins require very careful washing in soapy waters (no soap being rubbed on them), and rinsing in clear cold water. In washing colored ar ticles there are a great number of wavs by which the color may be preserved in such as are liable to fade. For buffs, grays, or any delicate colors, a table spoonful of black pepper to a bucket of water will set the color. If boiled in vinegar, black cotton goods will never lose their freshness. Ox gall is also ex cellent to preserve colors, and is particu larly useful in washing delicate tinted stockings. All colored goods should be hung in the shade to dry. Merino, woolen, and silk underclothes and stockings are very easily spoiled in washing. None but the best soap should be used, and it should be dissolved in hot water. Do not rub the woolen clothes, but cleanse them by drawing them through the hands in and out of the suds. Rubbing shrinks and injures them. When cleam wring from the suds and rinse in warm, soapy, blue water, stretch into shape and hang out immediately. Woolen and silk goods should never be washed on a stormy or cloudy day.— Good Housekeeping. All About the House Moths do not eat through paper. Hot wood ashes applied to a stove when it is cold, will remove grease. Tea should never be made in a tin pot. The tannin works on the tin and makes a poison. Glass kept wet with camphor dissolved in spirits of turpentine, may be cut with metallic tools. Cooking utensils, after being washed, should be rinsed in clean water and wiped out with a clean, dry cloth. In cleaning paint, obstinate spots that will not wash off with soap and water will often yield to a gentle rubbing with a damp cloth dipped in soda. Vinegar or yeast are kept best in glass vessels. If placed in stone crocks or jugs their acid attacks the glazing, which is considered poisonous. India rubber bands slipped over the body of bottles that are to be packed in cars for transportation, will grevent breakage and save considerable in packing material. Buffalo bugs cannot be starved in any ordinary length of time. One confined for six months without food was as tough and lively as ever at the end of that time, while lie had cast off his old skin and ap peared in an entirely new suit. A Canton flannel cutlery case, bound with either scarlet or blue braid, is both pretty ar.d useful. It should have a sepa rate compartment for each knife or fork, and may be rolled up and placed in a drawer or tacked up on the inside of a cupboard door. The flannel absorbs all moisture and keeps the cutlery from rust ing. Ivy trained against a building does not dampen the walls and make the surround ings unhealthful. On the contrary, the leaves shed rain, and the shoots, forcing their way into every crevice, draw out and absorb the moisture of the wall. The vines are thus a protection, and at the same time beautify the structure over which they run. Nothing tarnishes silver more quickly than rubber, the ring around the neck of a truit jar being enough to tarnish a whole closet full of silver in one night. Coal gas is is also inimical to bright silver or plated ware, but a lump of gum camphor in a closet will do much to protect the goods. Silver spoons, discolored by con tact with cooked eggs, are easily bright ened oy rubbing with common salt. Licking postage stamps, envelopes, and other articles similarly prepared with mucilage, “to make them stick,” is dan gerous. Impurities in the paper ot which the stamps or envelopes are made.or in the original gum arable and the liquids in which it is dissolved and preserved, with the chances of disease conveyed from the hands of persons preparing the articles, present opportunities for harm which may well be guarded against. Be on Your Guard. Benson's Capcine Plasters are widely Imitated. That is the (act. Now, why are they imitated? Because they are the only porous plaster inexistence that is really trustworthy and valuable. Benson's Plasters are highly and scientifically medicated, and cure in a few hours ailments upon which no others have any effect whatever. The public are therefore cautioned against plasters bearing the names of “Cap. siein,” "Capsicum." “Capslcine,” or "Capacin,” which are meant to pass for “Capcine,” (please note the difference) and also against plasters bearing the names “Benton’s,” “Barton's," etc. When buying ask distinctly for Benson's Plaster and protect your, self by a personal examination. The genuine has the word “Capcine” cut or poroused in the body of the plaster and the “Three 8eals” trade-mark on the (hoe doth. decUdXWSIw-nr fUtsctllHnfnns. lot a Tala Sacrifice. A Woman Sells Her Hair and Finds her Husband, A member of a human hair importing firm tells a romantic story of a Philadel phia Times reporter. He had an order from a French lady of noble blood to match some hair of a peculiar shade and fineness. He sent all over Europe with out success, and finally advertised in Phil adelphia, New York and other American papers. Among those who appeared in answer to the advertisement was ‘‘a wo man ot about 20 years ol age, shabbily dressed, but with a lorm and face that Venus might have envied Her hair was found to correspond precisely with the sample. The importer relates the rest of the romance as follows: “This hair is exactly what l want, 1 said, “and I will give you $200 an ounce for it.” “Take it off,” she said, with a nervous trembling of her voice that at once attracted my attention. “I am starv ing, 1 and my baby, and what you are wil ling to pay is a fortune to us.” I became interested, and questioned her. Alter a little hesitation she told me her story. Her husband had been a sea captain, and shortly alter they were married had sailed for the west coast of Africa. His vessel was never heard of alter leaving port,and it was presumed that he had foundered at sea and all hands had been lost. The pre sumed widow had a struggle to maintain herself and infant child, but with indiffer ent success. Finally, when suffering from the pangs ot hunger, she had read ray ad vertisement and hastened to my place of business, praying inwardly that her hair, which had been her husband's pride, might be of the required shade. Well, to make a long story short, I bought her hair, which weighed four ounces, and paid her eight hundred dollars for it. I sent the switch to my customer, the countess, and wrote her the history of the hair. She is a woman of great wealth and good ness ot heart. The return mail brought me a letter authorizing me to pay the poor sailor’s little widow $1,000 extra. I did so and wrote an account of the affair in our official journal, which is published in New York. The story was so roman tic that the daily papers copied it, and I received several letters from charitable people offering pecuniary assistance to the sailor’s widow. She was proud and refused to receive any help. One day. about three weeks after the publication of the story, a man who was bronzed and bearded came into my office very much excited. He held in his hand a copy of a New York paper, and unfolding it pointed to my story. “Can you give me the ad dress of this woman?” he asked eagerly. “She is my wife; I thought her dead.” While I wrote down the address he told me his story. His vessel had been ship wrecked on the African coast, and he and two others of the crew managed to reach shore. It was several months before they managed to reach a civilized port. He immediately sent word of the disaster to the owners ot the foundered vessel, and wrote to his young wife. From the former he received a reply, but he heard no word from his wife, and when he reached Phila delphia he discovered that she had mys teriously disappeared. One day in look ing over a paper he came across my story, and had hurried to my office to learn fuller particulars. I sent him to his wife in mv carriage, and you can imagine what oc curred at the meeting, for each believed the other dead. I wrote to the countess giving the sequel of the story, and the re sult was that the shipwrecked captain now commands her yacht, and the wife who sacrificed her hair to buy bread sails with him on every voyage A Marriage of Midgets. A Bride and Groom Whose Combined Height is Only Ninety-Nine Inches. A wedding such as that of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelley at Greenfield, Ohio—he only 51 inches high and she 48—had so much in it of novelty that the Enquirer man called in yesterday afternoon to pay his respects to the bride. She is a cute, cun ning, blight little lady, who sat in a rock ing-chair, while her plump, tiny, slippered foot did not reach the carpet. She comes from one of the best families in Green field, Ohio, where her lather resides. She was stopping at the Purvis House on West Fifth “You had a grand wedding, I hear,” re marked the Bnquirer man. “Indeed we did. Why, the school board let all thft teachers and children come and said they should not be marked tardy. We were married in the Methodist church and had six little girls all dressed in white like fairies, each carrying flowers,to stand up as bridesmaids.” “Why.the smallest was only five years old old could scarcely toddle, and the biggest was only as tall as I am. Then the streets were crowded and the marshal had to make a path for, us. There must have been twenty-five hundred people in the church.” “Any others of your familv as tiny as you “Oh, mercy, no. I am the youngest and the smallest.” “It was a love match, of course?” “Oh yes. It was funny. Six months ago 1 fairly hated the sight of my John. Why, I even used to go up and down oth er streets to avoid seeing him. Now, I think he is just the nicest man in the world, and I love him better than I do mv life.” “You have never exhibited, I suppose, or been on the road?” “Oh. no. though I have had many of fers. But before I was married I could not bear to leave my father, who dotes on me, but now 1 don't know what to say about it. I have a little property in Greenfield, and shall go back there to live from here.” Just then her tiny foot peeped out from beneath a double hemstitched, ruffled, puffed and tucked skirt, which the modest reporter thought was a mouse, and was getting ready to jump on the table, but he recollected himself and whispered “Such cunning shoes!” “Oh. yes; 1 wear No. 13, but the shoe is 12,” putting out a plump little yellow silk-stockinged affair no larger than a china doll’s. “And how old is your husband?” “He is twenty-tour, but I beat him a year, for I am twenty-five.” “Then your wedding was a happy af fair?” *‘Oh. yes; 1 had lots of presents. 1 haven’t yet even had time to look them all over. I was married in a brown silk I brocade velvet. Oh, don't laugh now. 1 suppose you think I could gat into a dress of only three yards, but I can’t. I once had a dress made, and it took nineteen yards Just tnink of that!” Mrs. Kelley was formerly Miss Anne Doffield. She differs from all the dwarfs that have before been heard of. in that she is extraordinarly bright, good-tempered, and has the features of intelligence. There Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, Employed promptly, in cases of Colds, Coughs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Loss of Voice, and Influenza, prevents their becoming serious, and speedily restores to health those who are thus affected. This remedy is, in the highest degree, curative, and for Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Asthma. Quinsy, or Catarrh, no other preparation is so effi cacious. We further state, with all confidence, that Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Cures Incipient Consumption. Consumption is tlie blighting plague of our nation. In its silent march through the land, it is stealing away from our homes thousands of the brightest and l>est of their inmates. If, however, the disease is taken in time, its terrible rav ages may be prevented by the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Prof. F. Sweet zer, of the Maiue Medical School, Bruns wick, Me., writes: “Medical science has produced no other anodyne expectorant so good as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It is invaluable for diseases of the throat and lungs.” George E. Wilson, Battle Creek, Mich., writes: Twenty-nine years have been added to my life by Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I had been given up to die, with what my physicians and friends supposed was Consumption. I was weak and emaciated, and coughed incessantly. I procured a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pecto ral, and, before it was all taken, I was about my business. I have been a strong and healthy man ever siuce.” Mrs. S. II. Jackson, Far Rockaway, L. I., writes: "Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral saved ine from Consumption, many years ago.” A. C. Bell. New Glasgow, N. S., writes: “More than twenty years since, when a young man. I had a terrible cough, for a long time. My system was run down, and my friends thought I was going into a de cline. By the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pec toral, the alarming symptoms disappeared, and I speedily recovered my health.” In all cases of suddeu ailments, affecting the throat and lungs, the immediate use of Ayer’s Cherry Tectoral is of the highest importance. It may always be depended upon in such cases, and for the effective treatment of those maladies, occupies a place, as a household remedy, that can be filled by no other preparation. Mr. Samuel Bement, Principal of Bartlett School, Lowell, Muss., writes: “I have used Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for several years, in cases of severe cold, or throat affections, and always found it a speedy and effectual remedy.” Mr. H. E. Simpson, Rogers, Texas, writes: I contracted a severe cold, which suddenly developed into Pneumonia, presenting dangerous and obstinate symptoms. My physician at once ordered the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. His iustmetions were followed, and the result was a rapid and permanent cure.” H. H. Woodal. 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