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ELLSWORTH, ME., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1880. QLIjf t£ll5!D0rtl) America i IS PUBLISHED AT ELUSWORTM. m k., BT THI 1 •>'>"» iotiitf Pabliiliing Compan; r<T>n» ot laktcrlptin. Oue copy, if paid within three months,.#2«i I i n-*t paid within three months,...2 23 1 f i*aid at the end of the year,.2 Au S * pai*et will be discontinue*! until all arrear ag**» art* paid, except at the publisher'* option— an 1 any person wishing his paper stopped, must giv« notice thereof at the expiration of th< term *• nether previous notice has be#n given or not. ijtasiness WILLIAM ROGERS M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Har I liti*lsok*. Office IIuidi.i v'* Bl<m k :<u»oa 3* Wm. A. DRAKE M. D. PIIVMCIbN and BIIIUCON —OFFICE 15 ■ Ifiiial ronm of l»r. J. T. Oagaori. (.ran llr Hlsck I'.llaworfli •g-Spcc .nl attention paid to «!Uca>e4 «»f the throat and lung*. 1 * r32 H. GREELY. D. L. S., DEN TTST. in Mu. on's llltHk oppo sin' 11,-nrj HhiliuK A Son*. JEWErf Ar HATCH,! m \xi fa* rruKRs i»r u.tu« i\ 6RAVE STONES, MONUME TS, TABLETS and ail kinds of Marble Work. AT THE LOWEST RATES * Door* Belov ; H ITCH IT., n Post Office, i ELLSM UHTII .511: ;itf W>I. 1». JOY, .Yttornev Counsellor AT LAW. "till K <»S ST AIK STBKKT. a few dour. L* » viving* (tank. Office formerly in Jordan’s It • k. Main >tr»*rt. p ». >! ••* <ai attention paid ;•* the e Ita lion I'rafik. .Notes and Account#. lvrli II. A. TRIPP, Counsellor and Attorney at Law, HLUEHILL, ME. ije l‘l{<)Ml’r \TTfc\ri‘*v g ven to any t*u«i Ii*m» intrusted W av care. .tin PATENTS. Um. Franklin Nra»c». Alijmey at Law ana Solicitor of Patents Hinc- Block. 17 Jlain Street, ■ Lis. till. IIA.Vi.OK. Mr j .J. P. HOOPER, >l<kivlianf Tniloi*. HCCKSPOHT, If MAINE. ' )yst«rauil Katin^ Saloon. .1 \v. i ihiMHn. Proprietor, pETEHS’ HE O C K . c . oi Main A State Sturets. Kllswoktm *1 vine. t^if m b * 5 - f a m m Cun be cured by us -if DR. GRAVES* *7 HEART REGULATOR. J l! has cured thousands ; why sot JOB ’ ■ Among the manv forms of Heart D.sea«e je m Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasmi : the . Heart, St ppage of tiia • Hi ..r*., g Oss;*;cati >n or Ik-ny Formation, Rhvuma t.s*n, General Debiiitv and Sinking of the g s; nts. A lady says of the Heart Kcgulat r: •*lt saved my life." Another j'ers-’n Says: . “It <Ld for me what no physician could—re* • .i»-ve<J me of all try heart troubles, and 1 am % g perfectly welL" Pamphlet on SvmptotBiof g — urt Diaeaae frit-. Addrcaa P. E.laotM.is i * u r.v-ord, N. H. Price 5 jc. and f : . vr botthb W. I STATE ASSIIHS OFFICE.! 1-1'i Milk tot. Hinlan, *!«*»•. Dr. H. L.BOWKER, STATE ASSATEH. Prof. CHAS. E. AVERY, ASSOCIATE. A-say ampler may be *.tiV ';. sent by mail Or i vpr.-fcS. «.»ld A—my,.+.» €H» 4-.. Id sad Mlvrr,. i «« Silver mr tapper . 3 (HI imoafcT EVERY MINING MAN: AUoLLIi SlIiSCKibK IOK The Economist, MINING AND INVESTORS' JOURNAL. I: t: Ixibl a '1 wl T.z-.zzX Iz.iraS, :! til zf~zl :Ti.ri:. U i. Uiu onl, i-Ji- r ... i. .‘..an in New Euglaud , ao.i it thoroughly m«t ..e-i l ut an 1 outspoken. M«l»arrtpuoM +3.00 m year. 31 Milk Street - Boston. 6moa37 NEW YORK SHOPPING, j Everybody delimited With the tasteful aud beautiiul selections made by liDC I Alfl AD who has Sever Fail* 1 m no I LAilRf •* to plea*e.h<r CUSTOMERS. NEW FALL CIRCULAR, HIT INSI EU. Sriid (or it. Address, Mk.v ELLEN I. AM AH }yrd« 677 Broadway. T. H. MANSFIELD & CO., PUBTLOU. MB. —DKALKUl IX— Maine and N, H. Mining Stocks, < ill cc «l 67 Exchange St., where ihey will BLt in 1 skiX the above stock. Auction sales every S.A u ' day at 10 a. m. Office hours 9 to 5. The 4. • u ige of all interested is respectfully solicit e t. Loioinuutcauon* promptly attended to from tm * date. .1 in. 1. 1660. GmosI* E. R. HILLS, Si ATE ASSAYER. UFF1CB -AT THE MINE OF (k. BlMtlll Op»»r Minim* * k..H In* Cm..’ BLUAIilUi. • • • MAINE. ”** '* 3mos.45 .Mill for Sale. 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Sanfmrp's Lmtn Lwigorator J $ :* a Standard Family Retncly Sir J ^diiwTutenif the Liver, Stomach "" Jaud Bowel*.—It is Purel J Vegetable.— It never J Debilitate*—It is r 2 Cathartic and »•*! a ' in my practices _ * and by the public, 2 for more "than 30 year*, 2 _ ” witli unprecedented results. 2 SEND FOR CIRCULAR.2 5 S. T. W. SUFORD, M.D., 1 ! # ‘'fT t»tt M.D.T WILL TltL TOI ITS tin TaTIo* £ I It H CURE BY ABSORPTION! jaWitfcont Dcsmg—Tne Better.Way. HOLMAN LIVER & AGUE PAD 7 lies, which arc the toL exp. ccnttol < iin |»y % bwo. pl ion . W ; Hot ; Most Erfectual Remedy frr a!! Disease* Arising from •• or Liver, Dearly Dll tbs d seases •. i . .: an N-U* can l c traced directly or indirectly to three tw organs. * ' cay<rt>no# that there is no 8 ■ or adult of both acx* * • ;#i/ i •. the use ot drugs ted far more satisfactory “IIOI n\> 1*1 V i:it FIB t O/S HI Ml Ula S. KunitH'rlcww C awe w, I inall> Ac* ~n<>v\ k dged to be lle»»nd the keach of Nt'dlritir, hau- t>a-«n Sated under tlie Mild Action of These K«‘in«*dic*w Hone. Addreis* HOLMAN LIVER PAD CO., 11. and UK Middle Street, Portland, Maine. <a:o. .V. PAHCIIEH, —Agent.— CLiAVtOHTH. — aiUE. Ijrli AUGUSTUS STOBY. President. THOMAS H. JOHSSON, Sex y. THE HOLTOKE MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company, OF SALEM. MASS., Office, No. 114 Washington Street. Statement January 1, 1880. La»U Abstts. $4tf3 3u£31 Reserve lor Reinsurance #ijbe46 75 lithe r Liabilities, including Lo»aes unpaid.. . 7367 25— 1*4 214 Ou surplus a* regard* policy holder* . $339 01* 31 Guarantee Capital, (Caab) lOouuOOu surplus over Guarantee -- ■ ■ - Capital. f£»C*fc31 al'MMAKY OF ASSETS. Heal Estate.§40 OOO 00 Bank Nset.§6 7 161 M wtgagea and Deed* ot Trad. 1901660 ' - I B ads. 4160601 -ate, G<*unty,City, an t other Bonds_16e 37u 6m Kail road 1L n.l' and Stock.LiottoCw ** D *ne' Interett Accrued Ac. 5 OT7 liu ■ band. 9 j« 4 Balance in Agents' hand*, net. 1 079 71 $483 302 bl AGENTS. A F DRINK WATER.Ellsworth. H. K. JlA-KKl.L,.Deer Isle. tR. 3w5 ABSTRACT or STATEMENT OF THE Hartford Fire Insurance Company. January 1st, 1880. CAPITAL STOCK, (all paid in.).... $1 25o0uu0o A SABI'S, Cash on hand, in Bank, and Cash Lems,. $G4* s«f, Vi Rents and Arrrued Interest,. 31876 72 Real Esla’e l nenrutnbered,. 63u 175 «S0 Loans on Bon 1 and Mortgage ; 1 st hen,) 773 324 40 United Mates, State/Hank. and R. R. Mocks and Bond.-owned by Com pany. 1 414 757 25 Total..$3 456 0r0&u All Outstanding Claims. I.Yj \r.rl 46 GEO. L. CHASE. Pit£81 L»£N T, J D. BROWNE, SECKBTAItT. E. B. GARDNER, AOKBT. 3*5 Bueksport. Me. BLUEHILL ACADEMYr THE Spring Term will commence on the third Monday, in February under the instruction I oi Addison E. Herrick A. B. Principal. TEMB TWELVE WEEK! i ‘-Tuition for Common and Higher English 25 eta* unguagea 35 cents per week. JOHN STEVENS, Secy. Bluehill, January 26, I860. 3w5 Wanted. UNITED States, State o1 Maine, and Ellsworth Bonds, for which the highest market price will be paid at 0. C. BURRILL’S. •Uf Bute Street. t ■ — .— Trouble la The Choir. i There w av something so unusual in the singing of the choir That the Elder looked up mildly from the tenth of Jeremiah. j And with re-adjuMted eyeglass looked along the foremost row. While a hundred necks were twisted in a stare I from all below. As before the rolling thunder comes a distant, wailing moan. ' There wa* presage of disturbance in the very organ’s tone, j Just the [vopping of the pickets, ere the battle’s awlul din. Ur the tuning ol the tiddlers ere the orchestra begins. An unprejudiced observer might have seen with half an eye There was waiting an « xploaion that would blow them all sky-high. < >r spontaneous combustion, to accept a modern name. That was w aiting just a motion to burst forth into flame. The Soprano sat in grundcur, with her book before her lace. With her back-comb turned in anger on the Alto aud the Ba«s ; While the Tenor stood bc*ide her with an ele vated nose. And the Organist pawed madly at thc|>etlaU with tiis toes. Mow could anyone but angels sing when they were feeliug so? Though the hymn was “Songs of (Madness,** they would make it **>ound» of Woe.” When we s>i.ig about devotion, some devotion we mu«t feel, Ur our plaintive tones of worship w ill partake somewhat of squeal. But the Alto sang her solo, and then 1* ft it to the Has*. Who wav gnawing at his mustache, and Was looking for the place; While the Organist In answer sung the leading part alone. And the Tenor tried to follow, but it ended in a groan. As the horror-stricken people heard the dis cord ri*iug higher. It was patent to the simplest their was trouble in the choir. And the Organist. In fury, closet] the organ with a crash. And the Alto soblted iu anguish, and the choir had gone to smash. When the Elder went among them with a view to reconcile. The Soprano loid her story with a sanguinary smile; It appeared the wretched Chorister had intro- i duced a girl H itii a bran new style of siugiug aud a most detracting curl. But, to tap the bitter • unax, this UsurjtT Wore a hat. Ju«t a duck, a gem. a beauty, and it made the P st look flat; And tin straw that broke the camel’s back and made the wrv« k complete - Sh* cam*- early Sunday morning and usur]»ed the leading seat. W hen the Elder asked the T* nor why he left, he aaid, “Because The S'prano said hi* chest-tones sounded ju*t like ti ;ng *>vw- ; And he overheard tin Alto one night whimper to the Bass, That a man with such a mustache was a palpa ble disgrace.” And the Ba-s informed the Eider that he taeri ticed his view* 'hen be • une and joined the Elder’s choir to ! help till up hi* |M'W». Me wa* an Episcopalian, and if people thought he’d take Any nons* use from a Baptist, they had math a great mistake. Then the OrganM and the Alto both put on an injured look. >vying something in an undertone about a change of book; And the Elder overheard them a« he gently closed the door. I s* the word*. * A poor old fogy.” and “A sentimental bore.*’ — Utica Observer. itftscclhncous. I From N. Y Tr.bune ’ Things to be Remembered. Has everybody forgotten wlm trust** put in the majesty ot ttie law. the peiee loviug disposition of the people, and the universal loyally to the Government and affection for the Union up to the very out break of hostilities III lsGl? We could not bring ourselves to believe that the Democratic party would actually under take to break up the Union because they bad lost absolute control of the Govern ment. We thought their threats were vuporings, and that (ears of any serious disturbance were idle. There were not a few w ho thought that to take precautions against violence, or muse preparations to repress disorder or resist any possible at tack upon Government property, was uu manly and cowardly; they opposed the adoption of measures such as ordinary prudence might have dictated, upon the ground that to exhibit distrust ot any por tion ot the people would only provoke an outbreak which It would be wiser to avoid than attempt to quell. We had not known till 18G1 how desperate a party this was. how absolutely bent on having Its own way, and what a wicked and determined pur|>ose there was In It either to rule or ruiu the country. It was some time dawn ing on us. The contemplated crime was so inexcusable and so vast that it stag gered credulity. Nothing but the thunder of the guns in Charleston Harbor could awaken us to a comprehension of it l.et us bear In mind that the lapse ot twenty years has made no change in human nature, ami very little in the nature, the habits and Ibe disposition of the Dem ocratic party. It is but little wiser for its experience of reverses, while it is ail the hungrier for its long and enforced absten tion from official flesh pots, md the more eager from its apparent nearness to the prize. One purpose dominates the coun cils of the party to-day as it did In 1861: the purpose either to rule this country or destroy it. At odds amoDg themselves upon all other points, upon all the issues ol current political discussion, they rally here, and are as one. Through all their blundering am) their folly, their ignorance and incapacity, their personal feuds and quarrels, their jealousies and rivalries and intrigues, there is the gleam of this con stant purpose: to get by some means, no matter what, the offices, the power and the absolute control. And we have not the excuse we had in 1801 for being caught unprepared: that we did not know how desperately in earnest they were, and hoped to disarm their hostility by our con fidence. We know now what manner of men they are, wiiat spirit actuates the party, and to what lengths they are ready to go to carry out their plans. The Maine conspiracy is not an isolated undertaking. It is not local in Its scope uur merely temporary in its character and its results. It is part of a larger plan; of a plan that was openly discussed in 1876, and that failed then only because ol the feebleness, or, as they themselves call it, the cowardice of their leader, to take either by fraud or force—by whatever means may be necessary—possession of the Federal Government. This Is the ob jective point of all the Democratic policy and tactics of the past three years. All the political legislation that baa beeu ac complished or attempted by Congress has had this sole end in view. The attack on the Election laws and the attempts to crip ple the Executive arm in the preservation of peace and the enforcement of an honest ballot are marked instances ol tbit. They hare illustrated It still further in the shameless partisanship they have shown In unseating liepublicsns honestly elected and seating their own men in their places; while in the States where accidental power has given them opportunity they hare made gerrymandering apportionments that bad no foundation In reaaon, nor any ex cuse except the partisan necessity to keep control of Congress. The one thing they have kept constantly in mind through all Is the 1’re.sidenlial election ol 1880, and | flieir determination to carry it, no matter ! what the means. The liarrelon gang ilid'not do the whole sale cheating they did just for the offices of that State for a single year. The l’llls bury peculators are not keeping np the sham Legislature and holding the State seal Just for one year's lease of a few uti remuneralive offices, to be held, too. only at the price of personal dishonor. They are players in a larger game. The stake is not Maine, but the Federal Government. A party which. In its desperation at being defeated, sought to break up the Union In 1861, has little hesitation in tumbling a State into anarchy in furtherance of its ambition. With Maine in the hands of the fraudulent Fuslonist Legislature and State officers, the Democrat* score several points in the Presidential game; with the question left unsettled, so as to leave a Democratic Congress a pretext for throw ing out the vote of the State, the Republi cans are easily cheated ont of the electoral vote of ttie State. Only for this has the tight been kept up. The Maine rascality Is only a part of the National conspiracy. The public was slow to believe the Trib unr's first announcement, several weeks ago. that this audacious fraud was contem plated. In aome quarters it was ridiculed. We observe in certain quarters now a dis position to ridicule the prudence of Gov ernor Davis in making preparations to de fend the public buildings at Augusta ami liangor. We believe the Governor would he making a most lamentable mistake to do otherwise. The men behind this bogus Maine Government seem now to be foiled, but it is be.t to take no risks. They have meant business from [in.- start. They meant business in 1861, but we found it out too laic. It would be a fatal blunder if we should permit ourselves to forget their record or our own ex|M.*ricnce. The Answers Tu Ikv lluralioM l*rop«»un«lrd to (far < uurf. Baxgoh, aTtn. 27. isso In rpBponse to the foregoing communica tion. the undersigned, Justice* of the Su preme Judicial Court, have the honor to *»y : that while we cannot admit, even by implication, that the statemeut and ques tions now before u« are presented by any legally organized legislative body bo a* to require an opinion from us under the Con* stitul tonal provision, (art. 6, sec. 3.) we feel Hi.it wre should be omitting an impor tant service which the people of this be loved .State and the gentlemen who have presented these question*, presumably from an honr*l desire to know their duty a* citizen* in the premise*, might fairly expect ol us. If wo failed to give some of the reasons which compel us to decline to entertain and respond to the aforesaid statement and question* based thereupon. The solemn occasion U Indeed here, in tha unparailed and ominous event* in our public history which have occured within the last few month*. But we are bound to declare that these question* are not presented by i» legally constituted legislative body, for the following reason*, hrlrflv stated-* W liui ihflVreut bodies of men. each claim ing lo tie ami lo exercise Hie functions of the legislative department of the State, ap pear. each asserting their title to be re garded as the law givers for the people, it is the obvious duty of the judicial depart ment who mutt inevitably at no distant day he called to pass njKin the validity of the laws that may be enacted by the n spec.ivr claimants to legislative authoti tv. to Inquire and ascertain tor themselves, with or without questions presented tiy the claimants, which of those bodies lawfully represent Hie people from whom they de rive their |Miwer. t here can he hut one law ful Legislature. ! The Court must know for itself w hose ! enactments it will recngril/e as laws of binding force; whose levies of taxes It will rulorce wl.cn brought judicially befote it; whose choice of a prosecuting olllcer be fore Hie Court it will respect. In a thousand w ays It becomes essential that the Court should forthwith ascertain and take judi cial cognizance ot Hie questiou : Which Is the true Legislature? The exlsieuco of certain facts, raising questions as to the powers and duties of the Governor and Council In canvass! ng the vote* for members of the Senate and House of Representatives, was necessarily Implied in the questions propounded by Governor Garcelou and answered by this Court under date of January 3. To put such questions in Hie absence of facts re quiring their solution would be an ahuseof i the |iower of the Executive to call for the ' opinion of the Court upon questions of law on solemn occasions. Those questions were fully answered, and by the answers It appeared that Ihv acts ami doings of the Governor and Council In issutug certificates of election to certain men as .Senators and members of the House of Representatives who did not appear to be elected, and declining to is sue certificates and summonses tocertain men who did appear to be elected, were in violation of their legal and constitutional obligations and duties. We are bound to take judicial Notice of the doings of the Executive and Legisla tive Departments of the Government, and i when called upon hy proper authority, to pass upon their validity. We are hound to take judicial nolle* of historical facts, matters of public notoriety sul interest transpiring in our midst. We cannot accept a statement which as serts as facts, matters that are In conflict with the record and with the hlalorical fads that we are not at liberty to disre gard. We cannot shut our eyea to the fact (hat the Governor and Council then in office, disregarded the opinion of the Court given iu answer lo the Governor's questions, omitted to revose the summonses illegally issued lo tueu who did not appear to be elected, or to issue summonses to men w ho did appear to be elected. n e snow- mat me officers who presided In the conventions of membcrs-elecl of the Senate and House on the first Wednesday In January, recognized as members of both those bodies men who were unlawfully in troduced into them by the uncoustitotional and illegal methods pursued by the Gover nor and Connell; and refused to recognize men w ho appeared (o be legally elected, and refused to permit aoy appeal from their illegal decisions to the bodies over which they were temporarily presiding. The report of the committee ol the Connell and the action ot the Governor and Council thereon, of which we mnst take jndicial Dotice. show that men were thus admitted and excluded upon grounds which this Court declared in their answer to Gov ernor Garcelou's questions to be untenable and illegal. It cannot be successfully claimed thtt there was ever a quorum in the House ol Representatives which under took to organize on the first Wednesday of January, without counting men who could only appear to be elected because the late Governor and (Council pursued modes which this Court declared in their answers to bis questions to be unconstitu tional. illegal tDd void. These men were not in tact elected. They did not appear to be elected by the returns canvassed in the manner in which the Constitution and laws, rightfully interpreted, required the Governor and Couocil to canvass them. We cannot recognize a House of Repre sentatives. to mike a quorum in which the presence ol these ineo was necessary, as a lawfully constituted body or capable of per forming any of the functions of a House of Representatives, when due protest was made Id behall of those who were Id fact elected by the people. Id like manner the presence*io the Sen ate. of men claiming seats to the exclusion ol those whom a canvass legally conducted would show to be elected, and being rec ognized as members of the convention by the temporary presiding officer who, though protest against his illegal action was made on the spot, refused to permit an appeal Irom his deeision to the conven tion of Senators elect, vitiated the organ ization of that body. We have only to re affirm the principles we asserted in our answers of January 16, 1880. upon these subjects, in coming to the result that the bodies propounding to us the fort-going questions are not a legal ly organized Hou-e of Representatives and Senate under the Constitution of this State. It remains to be considered whether there is a legally organized Legislature in existence, entitled to enact laws that must be binding upon the people and the Courts of the State. The action of those control ling the proceedings on the llrst Wednes day of January, 1S80, has not been ac quiesced in by a quorum of those appear ing to have been elected to either house. It is a matter of history that, alter unsuc cessful resistance to the Illegal action of the officers attempting to create the legis lative organization on that day, a majori ty of persona who appeared to be elected to the two houses formed an organization of themselves. They refrained from form ing an independent organization until the 12th of January, hoping until then to ob tain their rights in some other way. They were forced Into such a position by the illegal action of the majority uf members, whose action they were not obliged to submit to and which they could In other reasonable manner resist. The organiza tionsmade on January 12th, were made by a majority of the members appearing to be elected and having the j>rima facie right to seats. The point is raised, by the staterneut and questions submitted, that no legal organization could be funned oil January 12th, because no notice of the intended action was given to the minority «»r non-attending members so a* to enable them to participate therein. The minority were not excluded. 1'he organization was made In a public manner. The minority were at the time claiming to be. and are •till claiming to be. the lawful Legislature. It is not to be presumed that they would have abandoned that organization at that time had notice been given. We do not think thHt the want of notice Invalidate! the organization id January the 12lh. 1 heii* may be Irregularities in the manner in which such organizations were formed; but the voice of the people is not on that account to be stifled, nor the true Govern ment to fail to be maintained. No essential defects anywhere exist, but ot»iy such departures from ordinary forma a* circumstances compelled. History can never fail to disclose the vital fact that the organizations of January the 12th were formed by full quorums of persons appear ing by the records and returns as duly elected members of either House. It can not be that such a construction must be given to the Constitution of the State as will subvert the plain and obvious inten tion of its framers, or place It In the pow er of a few men to perpetuate their hold upon the offices in the gift of the people, . In defiance of the will of the voters con stitutionally expressed and ascertained, i because their own neglect of duty has made some departure from directory pro vision* and ordinary forms Inevitable. A legally organized legislature being in existence and exercising Its constitutional functions, it follows that no convention of iiieinbcrs-elcct of either House can exist which can be treated a< a nucleus for another organization. Two governments are claiming to be in existence as valid uiid entitled to the obedience of the peo ple. Both cannot rightfully exist at the same tun*- But one - government can be recognized and obeyed. The responsibili ty and solemn duty are imposed upon uslo determine which is entitled to the State. w.- therefore, after due deliberation and consideration of all matters Involved, affinn and declare our judgment to be, that tie M-nate whose presiding officer is tin* Hon. Joseph A. Locke, and the House of Representatives w hose presiding officer Is the Hon. Geo. E. Week*, constitute the legal and constitutional Legislature of the Mate. JOHN APPLETON, CHARLES W. WALTON, w ILLIAM G. BARROWS, CHARLES DAN FORTH, JOHN A. PETERS. ARIHMAS LIBBEY. JOSEPH W. SYM^NDS. 'Io Albert G. Andrews amt H. C. Cheever. Esquires. Augusta. Maine. How the Earth will Perish. (V Y. Tribune’* lfeportof Pro!. Procun'* Lecture.) The planet Venus has an atmosphere, and it Is »aiJ tojbe at tbe very least as dense as that of our own earth. Then we learn also that oceana are on her surface, be cause It has been shown by the spectrum, j It appears also that It closely resembles ' our earth in condition, and that it is the one planet tit to be tbe abode of living creature* like those which exist on the earth. In Mars we begin to recognize the effects of planetary old age. These green ish patches we must regard a* seas, and I we find Ilia: they are much smaller in coin- i parison to the rest of area than in our earth- On our own planet 72 O) is cover ed with water, and on this only about io. 00. The older planet has tbe smaller wa ter surface, and the idea is suggested ttiat In the old age of a planet the waters grad- ! ually diminish in extent. We pass to the moon to answer that I question, and here we certainly find no I traces of water. Alaowe trace tio atoms- . phere of appreciable density, and every thing lends to show that she had water on her surface, but that it has disappeared. Does this seemingly cold and dead world appear to have passed through the same stages as our own earth? 1 think we can not doubt this when we look at tier volcan ic craters. 1 think, too, there must have been there such life as oil our own planet. There were oceans on her surface, which lormerly occupied these spots, which, tbe waters being withdrawn, present this finely granulated appearance from its ac- \ tion. This seems to be a natural explana tion. As the planet becomes old the oceans become soaked into tbe planet's interior, the crust of tbe surface as the planet cools being formed into large cavi ties such as exist in porous substances, and Into these the water is withdrawn. Dr. Franklin of England has shown ibat four limes as much water as now finds place on :be earth's surface could be found room for in tbe interior of tbe earth, when the process of cooling has gone sufficiently iar. Then, in regard to the atmosphere, there is certainly no trace on the moon, but we have a picture here showing that the volcanic action ot the moon was atoue time no less than In our earth. Tbe moon probably represents the luture of our own earth at a distance of time of twenty-five million of years. When the old age of the earth will come It will cease as the abode at life. I-et us pause to consider gome of tbe stars in this regard. Many of them are too old and many too young Co sustain life an their surface, bnt that they were form ed for some purpose beyond that ol being useful to this particular planet there is no doubt. A study of the heaven: seems to tell us that all life should occupy all space and all time, and not be crowded into one portion of time or one portion of space. I think we may look at tbe heavens, with the thousands of stars to be seen with tbe naked eye, and bold tbis thought. There you have 8,000 suns, each a borther of our own sun, though many belong to higber orders, and we may believe they have thousands of orbs circling round them which are the abodes of life. And if each one hat bat a single world In its system as tbe abode of life, we have then thousand* of inhabited world* similar, perhaps, to our own. Id tbe one eingle polar map here shown there are 324.000 start, all to be seen with a small telescope, and by one of Hersbel't telescopes 20,000,000 stars would have been brought into view In the same section ol the firmament. But after all there still re maius the thought that each planet ii tend ing towards death, and though the periods ol time are so vast that they seem like eternity, the dying out of the larger of these suns appears to us like tbe death of tbe universe itself. Bat take such an orb m Sirius, which la a thousand times larger Ilian the sun, and after his death all the smaller orbs will have tiled; but can we escape the thought that there will still re main others to take their places’ It seems to tne we caunot. If we remember bow thoroughly we have been deceived In the past. We thought the earth the center of the universe; then the solar system was everything; then that system became but one in a galaxy of stars, and in turn the galaxy of stars is lost in the infinitude of stars. -— — ■ --. Mrs. McMillan’s Bracelet I New York Times.) Men are not. as a rule, logical. There is Mr. McMillan, of Toledo, for example. Last week be proclaimed to all his frienda that lie felt It to be vastly more blessed to give than to receive. He aaid (hat he In tended to make his wife a beautiful Christ mas present, and that the Idea gave him more pleasure than the reception of a gift of three dozen Scriptural mottoes for the walls of his parlor could give him. He has now radically changed tils opinion, and uses language In regard to Christmas presents which is well adapted to niaan the blood run cold. The reason lor this sudden change of opinion is to the last degree il logical and irrelevant, and how Mr. Mc Millan can regard himself aa a reasonable being it is hard to imagine. On Thursday, lust having worn out all the jewelers in Toledo by a prolonged ex amination of their stock, Mr. McMillan fi nally bought a beautiful bracelet for 9JS, with the provision that he might return it liie next dav, It. on further consideration 1 he should decide that he did not want it. 1 The bracelet was put up In a nice little box. | which wu wrapped in white paper, and Mr. McMillan wrote on tbe paper the touch ing legend: "Kor my own precious dar ling." Tutting the box In his overcoat pocket, he went home to tea, in a smiling and happy frame of mind, and meeting Mrs. McMillan, kissed her with ao much emphasis that she immediately suspected that something was wrong. While sluing at the tea-table. Mr. Mc Millan led the conyersatlon to the subject of Christinas presents, and incidentally re marked with a twinkle of the eye that show ed that lie was joking, that he rather thought he should not give his wife anr thing- lie said 11 he really loved a woman, . he should like to give her a splendid brace 1 let. but of course he did not care enough for anybody to give them anything. Mrs. McMillan might perhaps have taken ex ception to her husband's remark as a speci men of graceful English, but the was so [ well persuaded that he was joking that she almost felt the coming bracelet encirc ling ber wrist. For the rest of the meal she was exceedingly affectionate, and did not once indulge in her usual criticism of the mental and moral habits of her hus band. In the course of the evening Mrs McMil . Ian surreptitiously searched Mr. McMillan's ' pockets and discovered the bracelet. She was tilled with gratitude and joy. The af fectionate words written ou the case affect ed her almost to tears, and she mentally resolved that during the coiulog year she would abstain from the use of coercive measures of a violent nature except iu ex treme circumstances and when her temper might be unusually excited. The next morning Mr. McMiliau began to think that perhaps tils wife might not be particularly pleased with a bracelet, lie Mdes. 9£~> really did amount to a large sum. Might it uot he better to return the bracelet to the jewelers and to give Mrs. Mc Millan $Ib or $1.j iu money to spend as she might think proper! He debated the question all day. and toward evening decid ed oii the whole, to take back the bracelet and give his wife a $10 bill. That night at the tea-table, he was even happier i and more gay, than be had been on the l previous evening. This time he had tlnal ' ly settled the question of what to give his 1 wife, and he practiced a judicious economy ; by resolving to »{>eud $10 instead of $25. | A happier and more atlectionate household I than that of the McMiliau family on the , night of the 24th of December could not ' bsv«- been found In ail Toledo. The next morning when the early bells ushered in the happy Christmas season. Mrs. McMillan arose and dressed herself. Her husband woke up while this ceremony w as iu progress, and after wishing his wife a merry Christmas, told her to bring him bis trousers and he would give her a pres ent. The happy w ile obeyed, and waited with beati' g heart for the bracelet. Toiler inexpressible disappointment, Mr. McMil lan look out his purse, gave her a 910 bill and said : “There, my dear; buy what ever you want most. I give you the money in stead ot jewelry, or anything else, because I w ant you to have a present that will be some satisfaction to you.” Mrs. McMiliau maintained a painful si lence. She put the money In her pocket, hut never expressed (he slightest gratitude for it. As she walked toward a closet and took from it a stout rope, Mr. McMillan began to grow alarmed, and his alarm be came very lively wheu bis wife, with amaz ing swiftness and vigor, bound him to the bedstead, and then went down stairs for the broom-stick. On her reappearance, she asked him in a cold, sarcastic wav if his “precious darl ing” liked her expensive bracelet. “You j couldn't give the wife of your bosom but j ten dollars could you?” remarked Mrs. i McMillan, italicizing her words with the broomstick; “but you could lavish thirty- ; dollar bracelets oii a wicked, good-for- | nothing hussy! Oh! l'il let you know!''! And accordingly she did “let Mr. McMil lan know,” with a strength that he never before Imagined that she possessed. Iu vain did the unhapDy man protest that he had “never given no bracelet to nobody." Tiie angry matron was deaf to his moles tations. All day he remained bound to his bed. He neither bad breakfast nor dinner, but at frequent Intervals Mrs. McMillan went up stairs with the broomstick, and to use her language, “took a fresh back at him.” It was after Mr. McMillan was released and his bruises bad healed sufficiently to enable him to walk without excessive pain, that he proclaimed bis detestation of Christmas and of Christmas gifts. It must be admitted that in this he wa- grossly il logical. Undoubtedly, his wife was In er ror, and perhaps expressed her feelings with too much emphasis, and in a way that was open to criticism. Still, there was no reason why Mr. McMillan should denounce Christmas Iu a broad indiecrimlnating way. and it is only too evident that he is not a man who can be called an exact and care ful reasoner. Hr. and Hme. De Lesseps. [From the Parisian.j The whole of Europe passes through the dining room and saloon of Mr. and Mine, de I.esseps, in Paris. It Is a hospitable bouse if ever there was one, cosmopolitan, and always seeming to be full of joy. You amuse yourself there as you do nowhere else, and at the same time you And there a family note in the shape of a joyous baud of seven children, who at a given moment make a noisy and bouuding entry in the midst of the receptions. Mr. de lesseps loves to be surrounded by this lit tle world, and bis young wife la an adora ble mother. Every day about four o'clock an Immense landeau carries off the brood to the Bois de Boulogne. Who has not remarked those laughing laces, those rosy cheeks, and eyci sparkling with a youth that is blossoming forth In the full tide of happiness? Between the father and mother and tbelr children there Is a har mony of tenderness which is perhaps the most natural sentiment in the world, but which nowadays is not common enough. Mme. de Lessepi is ol Creole origin; her beauty has the type of that race, the magnificent black eyes—eyes of black vel vet which prevent you from seeing with Impartiality any other feature of her face. Still, let ut see. The uoae, perhaps, is a little wanting in line! Yes. assuredly, but you hardly think of (t in presence of that ^uscnlj took which qt>gfrniyi<ls aJJ your admiration. And then aim lias a anpreine iy elegant figure. Tight-tilting dresses were iuvented for her sake, and she It faithful to them. Doubtless this fashion would be eternal if ail women had as good a right to conform to It as she lias. She it the daughter of Mr. de Bragars, who was Judge In the Mauritius. The following anecdote relative to her marriage with Mr. de Lesaepi is known to their friends alone. It is charming. On his return from 1'ales tlue Hr. de Bragars had brought back with him some rosea of Jericho for some ladies of his acquaintance. Mr. de Lesseps, who was one of ths friends ol the bouse, was present when the legend about then* tlowera was related. Any one who has some of these roses dried may put them in water and express a wish; if Ilia de sire it to be rulflilcd, the next day the faded flower will be lound to bave bloom ed again. • And you. Mademoiselle,” said Mr. de Lesseps. taming toward the young daugh ter ol Mr. ile Bragars, -are you, too, going to try the experiment?” ■'It Is useless. Monsieur,” the young girl replied with melancholy aud emoiluii. ” 1 hose roses would not bloom again '” ••Why?" '‘Because the wlshj that I form cannot be realized.” There wts so much confusion and evi dent emotion in this reply that Mr. de Lesseps was struck and set thinking. •'Try at least. Mademoiselle," he said, taklug her hand, which she did uot with draw loo hastily. It appears that the young girl pat the legend of the roses to the test. The following day they had re auiued their colors, aud shortly afterward Mile, de Bragars became Mme. de lesseps. Mr. lie Lesseps lives in the line Saiut k lorentiu. One ol the most interesting pieces of furniture in the salon Is a what not containing the huudreds of decorations that have been given to Mr. de Lesseps. In all ilia rooms oriental stuffs and rare aud costly bibelots abound. In tbe ante chamber are two enormous elephants' luska and a collection at umbrellas of ail nations. Throughout the boose, there reigns comfort and elegance without oaten lalion of luxury. The manners of the mas ter and ol llie mistress of the bouse are simple and affable. A small rmyloye or au unknown journalist is received as gracious ly as au ambasaudor. Their receptions are very animated. On Madame de Izsirp'i days you cannot hear anything ; everybody is talking, moving about and amusing him self. As lor hospitality, It is practiced here hi the old-fashioned style. They have al ways at the house some relation who baa not been favored by fortune, or who has need of recommendations, and these visi tors stay aix months or a year. Mr. de Lesseps is about seventy-seven yesrs ol sge; bis wife was tweuly-oue years old When he married her, In ISoO. Ills activity Is prodigious; he works, attuiidi to the duties of his high situation, goes into so ciety. takes his wile to bails, passes the night there, anil resumes his busy life at day-dawu. When he is at lsmallia he re freshes himself by a sea-bath, aud then he can very well Uispeuse with going to bed. Every year he embarks for Egypt with his whole family just as be would go to As nleres, and yet, heaven knows the number of trunks surh a numerous family must re quire. Mr.de lesseps has had a country house built at Maudon. on the model of an Egyptian house, with an laterior court on to which all the rooms open. There the legendary hospitality Is practiced on a still larger scale. Everybody at T'aris has seeu ths magnifi cent portrait that Hounat painted of Mr. de Lesseps; the work Is a little tumultuous and Jerky, perhaps, but It depicts well the energy of the man. The fotluwiug is a re markable trait of his sangfroid . On the eve ol the opening ol the Suez Canal, by the ex-Kinpress and all the sovereign princes of the world, an engineer came in terror to tell Mr. de Lesseps that there was a rock jutting out. In au unseemly fashion, In the middle of the canal, and that there might, perhaps, be danger lor the princely guests. Imagine the ex-Kin press wrecked In the middle of the canal! Mr. de I.easeps replied, simply, ”1 bave said that we should pass, and we shall pass.” The next day the passage was effected without accident. His activity aud his will had got the better of (he rock. Letter from Boston. Mud, muddler, muddiest! Streets fathomless, crossings long slate | invisible, and aids walk s slippery, slimy, 1 beyond the experience uf even the oldest I inhabitant. ibis U uncomfortable, but | the capricious alternations nl the weather j cause far more than discomfort. If to them [ Is to be ascribed the unusual amount of sickness. Diphtheria Is especially preva lent, and seems particularly lalsl lu the most wholesome distticls of (he Buck-bay, While ss yet there is no alarm, nor real reason for any there is much uneasiness lu regard to It. Ill some instances drams have been found impi-rlect, and It is under stood the malignant form of diphtheria from which Mayor 1’iince’s daughter died, arose from sewer poisoning. The board of health have to-day issued a circular for the better Information of the public con cerning this justly to hr dreaded disease. Pronouncing it coutsgious and Infec tious, directly and kndirrctly, they advise Isolation nl ibe patient, a special disinfec tant, ventilation of drains, removal uf the body Immediately after death, and fbao lutelv private luuerals. The decision with which they conclude, that until these di rections are obeyed, the disease will In crease, is undoubtedly true. But neiiber bad weather, sickness or death, cause any diuiiuution uf the crowd in the streets and public places. Theatres, operas, concerts and lecture rooms are filled beyond comfort, while private enter lainmeure follow each other with breath less rapidity. A few nights ago, an Inter esting jruttiering was held at the bouse of Joseph Cook to hear Mr. Bronson Alcott talk of Immortality. Vaguenessof thought and diOusrnrss of speech usually charac terize Mr Alcott, but that evening owing to the recent death of his daughter May Alcott Nierlker. there was a very touching and real power In his words. Bis remarks were called there, an argument for the soul's pre-existence and eternal duration, but nothing Mr. Alcott ever says deserves the name of argument, and they areratber the rhapsodies of e poet on a theme of uni versal and absorbing Interest. A vivacious discussion followed where all grades of opinion were developed, from the most evangelical to those of simply personal experience. It Is no wonder Mr, Alcott feels deeply the loss of this daughter for as a family (he Alcotta have been very fond ami proud of her. As Is well kuowo, she I* the'Amy of “Little Women” and tliu' tn all eves, excepting those of her ad miring sister, the authoress of tbs book, lacking lu the beauty there glvea her, she was always s most origiual, attractive per eon, with au artistic gift she was deter mined to develop. | was In Loudon with her at one time when she was studying at the South Kensington Museum, and It teemed a* II she literally worked every minute ot daylight Living a long way off she hardly minded in her eagerness.wheth er she ate or tlapt. In n dingy shop kept by au old woman on Bedford, she used to mtke her simple hreaAfaM at a roll and cup of milk, but as the old woman said “was always as bright at the day.” Her talk waa quaint and lively, with tb* pecu liar Alcott individuality; and whenever I hear any one crltlclte “Little Women,” as too pronounced In its conversation*. I think “Yon do not know the family and above all do not know May." She had a hearty delight in her sister Louisa's success, and one of her best stories, was of travelling up from Liverpool to London on onn of her numerous solitary journeys. The other occupant of the carriage was a young Ku gliah girl. The two fell Into conversa tion. The English iady soon found out she had an American for her companion, and mentioned the only person in that country whom she really cared to see was the au thor of “Little Women.” Fancy the de light of the two! May Alcott Nleriker, said she told that girl, more about the real life of [he four girls In that book, than she ever told, before or after to anyone else. Indeed, so abounding was her vitality, that even at this distance of time and space I cannot think of her as dead. We bear she has left her seven weeks old daughter to her sister’s care. Well will It be with the baby if it Is so. One of the most unique meetings I ever sttended, was held In the chapel of Mt. Vernon Church, ou Forefather# Day,when the first Chinese sermon ever heard in Bos ton wss presetted. The text was the con version of the jsiler at Phillippl, the ser mon an hour long. auJ the preacher Jee Gam ; himself a Chinaman. The tout en semble was Oriental. Those brown men with their narrow eyea. [heir sleek hair hanging in pig tails, or lightly masted on their long heads, and dressed mostly In sleeved blouses and fell shoes made you (eel, as If you were In a dream. As Jee Gim pronounced their tongue It had a pleasant sound. At their .Sabbath School, usually held In the same place on Monday afternoons the exercises are conducted In English as well as Chinese They are learning the tormer language very rapidly; considering they sre laboring men and hare no time during the week. Jee Gam their best educated, and most prominent man, it likewise a temperance worker of great real and Influ ence. At Chicago Hie other day he made the most telling speech of the convention. A noticeable eveut of tills week is lha dinner given by the Massachusetts Hnh rn I j Hon. James O. Blaine. I Received with loud and long applause ' the speech he made after dinner was served i Is a mode! not only of earnestness and elo quence which we always expect Irom Mr. Blaine, but of good sense. Justice, and for bearance. A gentleman who was present assures me he never saw Mr. Blaine look ing so well, and that his voice was at its best. Many prominent gentlemen followed Mr. Blaine all speaking with more or less praise of his course, and that of the Re publican party in Maine. Hon. Harvey Jewell dwelt In terms of the utmost eulogy on the course of the Supremo Court and Senator Blaine rose again to say that lie agreed fully with him. There was not 111 Ihe leugth ami bread:h of the country be j tween the two oceans, a bench uiore pure, more learned, more fearless, than the bench that pronounced the two great de ciaioua which had been so eulogized. [Loud applause.] Hon. Stillman B. Allen made the only direct allusion fo the approaching Presi dential contest wheu he said: “Four year* ago this distinguished senator had a great many friends iu Massachusetts. He has mure to-day, and if that little caucus which is going to meet in the early part of June somewhere out In one of the large cities of Jlliuoia should give us an opportunity, Massachusetts will staud square up and give a vote w hich will do honor to him and do honor to Maine and do honor to her •elt." [Applause.] The meeting broke up shortly before six o’clock. There is no doubt that Mr. Blaine's action during what he calls “that unhap py period of nearly seventy full days of trial and tribulation." has raised him'lo an exalted height, not only In Jiew England but throughout the whole country, as everywhere the struggle in Maine has been watched with feverish anxiety But just as always when the crisis comes, the men competent to take the helm are found on deck, tt lien the wind is dead ahead they are too wise to steer in the teeth of it ; they know Just at what point of the tack the salt wilt till and so they bring the ship sate to her haven. A. 8. D. Letter from Leesburg, La. To the Ellsworth American : J he incident I am about to relate may *e*lu lo those not familiar with (he char cteristic habits of the while Inhabitants ol the gulf Stales, to be au exceptional case, but experience has taaght me that such is not the truth. The parish ot Calcasieu, I.a., extends from the easteru boundary of Texas to tbe Calcasieu rieer on the coast, and some 80 miles Inland. It is composed of prairie elevated from one to three feet above the level of the sea, through which the above named river with its numerous lakes and bayous winds its way slowly to tbe sea. I he soil '9 fertile and furnishes excellent pastures for thousands of cattle and horses which thrive the year round and are a valuable source of wealth to'he land own ers. A farm uanaily contains frem three to five hundred acres with dwelling and out buildings, and is commonly surrounded with an orange grove of more or less ex tent. Some of these groves are very valu able. the fruit selling on the trees for sev eral thousand dollars. To offset this bene ficence or nature the country Is subject to slmost yearly overflow from storms In the gulf of Mexico, damaging and destroying crops, leaving malaria and fever from which many die. At the time of tbe prea ent writing it Is just recovering from tbe effector such a storm; since which 20 per cent, of tbe number of Inhabitants of the town of Leesburg have died, moatly wo men and children. There are now stand ing pools of stagnant water In thair yards and at their very doors, although three months have passed since the overflow, and which a few boors of labor would suffice to drain off into tbe river. There are an abundance of able-bodied (men) with absolutely nothing to do The Incident I am about to relate. Ten days ago having occasion to pass a farm house or above the average pretentions, situated about one hundred yards from tbe bank of the river, I saw that a bullock bad fallen half way between tbe bouas and river, and from tbe gathering of some buzzards around tbe body, evidently to rise uo more. The thermometer ranged at about 80s sod the prevailing wiud blew directly upon the bouse. Several men were employed about tbe farm with bones and oxen: around tha house wars woman children: even with wbat 1 know of their habitual indolence I looked te see team drag tha carcass Into tee river when the current would taka K out to see. Vhe bide was worth asveral dollars. I did not as pect to see them try to save that. I was disappointed however; no notice was taken of It. As many bustards as could gel around It were at work and fast re ducing It. The smell from it dis gusting, and tee ladlea of tbe household were obliged to abet tbe front of tee knnss and communicate tbroagh tee back door for 8 or ten days, at which Urns tbe beaae were well picked and tbe air wad sweat agate. 8. !>. I* - ! . . ,'jj— -ai Rates at Advertising. lvk. Iwk*. I mot, Ian, lyr llxih, 1100 0100 14 00 MOO |I0 Slash*!, 100 4 00 0 00 UOO MM I ootamn, 0 00 1100 1000 MOO MOO 1 column. It 00 MOO 00 00 MM MO 00 OraoioL notice*, Ons aqaars 0 wash*, 0* <k ■ash additional wesk, SO saato. 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