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Rockland Gazette : March 22, 1867 a ISaiifc anti |« li igtitfR ag. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY M0EX1XQ, BY JOHN PORTER & CO., Having every facility, in Preasei, Type and other material, and the experience ot many yean in the business, we are prepared to execute, in superior Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block. style, and with despatch, every deacriptfowol Job Work, such as T E K M S : Catalogues, By-Laws, Town Reports, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, $2,00 If payment is delayed 0 months 2,25 If not paid till the close of the year, 2,50 Circulars, Bill-Heads, Blanks, O ' No paper will be discontinued until all a r ­ rearages are paid, unkss at the option of the pub­ CAROS, PROGRAMMES, LABELS lishers. O* Single copies five cents—for sale at the office Uarnl B ill., Shop BilU, Posters, As. and at the bookstores. Particular attention paid to (CT All letters and communications must be ad­ dressed to the Publishers. VOL. 22. ROCKLAND. MAINE, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1867. NO. 14 PRINTING IN COLORS, JOHN PORTER. E. E. WORTMAN. BRONZING, 4cc. asked, quickly, and with a flushed cheek. When Martin reached the city he J In the evening, when Mr. Gooch aud h From the Watchman and Reflector. Neither are these roofs so unsightly, Another Attempt to Burn Natchez. Appeal to the Women of New England. had resolved to perform any honorable I his family were alone, the single ser- There seems to be a mania for arson in M lien we took leave of you as fellow-workers A cloud crossed the deeply-furrowed SIGHTS^ ALONG A DUTCH CANAL. though one can hardly get away from for the soldiers in our late war, we told you that labor for which he could obtain pay. I vant who had been for a time retained, the idea of the people’s living in bee­ the Southern cities. On the 25th of last features of the aged man, and his lip month a smell of burning tar was noticed we should not entirely dissolve our ergamza- ‘ A-i’c You aN ias on?” quivered. He bowed his head a mo­ On the second day of his stop in the! handed iu a package. It was sealed -4 Striking Costume. hives. Behind the house, and attached tion; intending to hold ourselves in readiness to After our tedious -voyage from New proceeding from a store on Main street, aid iu any good work that might Occur. The Rev. Mr. Magill, rector of St. Paul’s Church, ment, and when he looked up again great town he called at a provision and directed to Peter Gooch. With to it, are the cattlp stalls—neat and and upon bursting open the doors, the time seems now to have come. To-day we learn there was a bl ight drop upon the long, store. The owner liked his appearance ■ the old cloud still upon his brow he York, we at length reached the Ilelder, comfortable as the house itself—for the persons entering were nearly stifled by anew, upon undoubted authority, that more Peru, Illinois, being asked the above question a seaport town of North Holland, at the than Cl.OOO e^men and children of Crete, driven by a lady, responded as follows: gray lashes. and having beard bis story,hired him to broke it open and first found a letter cow is the Dutohmau’s wealth, and is volumes of smoke. An engine was soon' iroin their homes by merciless invaders, are suf­ I am one of a band ‘My son,’ he said, with strong emo­ carry baskets, aud perform errands gen­ which read as follows : entrance to the Zuyder Zee and of the often better lodged than his family. on the ground and the fire was quenched. fering excessively for want of food and clothes. It was thereupon discovered that boards Already, preparations have been made to furnish Who will faithfully stand tion, ‘1 have been obliged to bow to erally, a son of the dealer, who bad Dayville, Sept. 20, IS—. harbor of the famous ship canal that Before the houses were generally trim Iu the bonds of affection and love J crosses the Province to Amsterdam. gardens, with flaunting hollyhocks and and shavings, soaked in tar, had been lood, it is hoped largely. Xo general effort has 1 have knocked at the door, many a stripe—stripes heavy and hu­ been doing this work, with Martin a “ills. G o o c ilWhen I was an orphan, and piled up in the basement story and set been made, at least in New England, to send Once wretched and poor, miliating—through a long, dark life, week to familiarize him with the way almost helpless, you gave me a home. If there Opposite thia town is Texel, a low-ly­ sun-flowers, and rows of frosty-looking lire to; that close by stood a barrel filled clothing; and nakedness seems inevitable to And there for admission I strove. were unpleasant scenes between us, I huve for­ lo thousands, without prompt action in the simply because I could not, or would over the city. gotten aud forgiven, as I hope you have ere this. ing island, famous for its fine' breed of cabbages; and all around, flat, rich with coal tar, and extending from the ■natter. By the help of a friend. not, bow when I was young.’ In a little while Martin Maybury was 1 came here to find you iu trouble. This sheep and the ewes’ milk cheese—hard meadows, each with its little wind-mill tire was a wetted train of gunpowder In this emergency, we feel it our duty to take Who assistance did lend, ‘But no one could bow to such stripes happy and contented, aud every night, day I have purchased for cash your home.— and pale green—whicli it exports to the to pump the surplus water into the great leading to an open keg of dry powder.— up a work kindred to the one for which we I succeeded an entrance to gain; With tliis I send you the deed of your real es­ ajnomit of some thirty thousand pounds Another keg of powder.was in the build­ originally organized, and preeminently woman's Was received in the West, as have been put upon me,’ the boy re­ when he said the prayer his mother had tate, and the hill of sale of all else you owned canal. work, and we call upon our former fellow-work- taught him, did he bless that white- yesterday. Accept them for I give them gladly yearly. Its inhabitants are a hardy, A Juvenile Escort. ing. The explosion would have shatter­ rs to join us in it. We know to whom we By command from the East, turned, warmly. ‘I wouldn’t submit. ed all the buildings in the neighborhood, But not without feeling some pain. I won’t submit. I have sworn,’ he con­ haired old man who had given to him —freely.’ Accept them, aud feel that you once amphibious race, whose costume is Presently, as we drifted along, the peak; and we hope and believe that memories more have a home. somewhat oriental, rendering it difficult set fire to the central and most valuable of tlie sufferings of war, and the relief that may Here my concicnee was taught tinued, growing more ardent, ‘to have a lesson of life which had already prov If you would see me, drop me a line, direct­ sound of music saluted our ears—such portion of the city, and made a terrible he bestowed by such efforts as can easily be With a moral quite fraught revenge upon that proud m an; anil re- ed its value. In times past lie had ed to’the hotel. to distinguish man from wife, and turn­ music as Pan might have made, for cer­ conflagration. The City Council offered made, will quicken the hearts and impel the With^entimeuts holy and true: Yours, truly—truly, ing the young people into men and hands of hundreds of women to extend to these Then onward I traveled, venge I’ll have!’ | allowed every little affront to rankle in Martin ’Maybury.” tainly it answered to no rule of modern a reward for the apprehension of the in­ sufferers so far away such sympathy iu substan­ his bosom, and he knew they had made women cut short. It consists of a long cendiaries. There seems to be a fixed tial form ns we were proud and glad to give to To have it unraveled ‘What sort of revenge do you con­ And still that old cloud was upon melody. A group of youngsters had What Hiram intended to do. template?’ the traveller asked, in a qui­ him miserable. But now be passed llauuel cap, hanging towards one side, issued, from a little hamlet on the banks determination to burn down both Natch­ our own countryman iu their need. But now it his brow. For one long hour Peter tipped with a gorgeous tassel, much ez and Vicksburg. is for oppressed, afflicted women and children Very soon to the East et tone. such things by with a stern resolve not and were following us as fast as their we must labor; not for lighting men. to be offended or angry, and lie was not Gooch paced up and down the parlor, like an old fashionsd night-cap ; a wide M e want to prepare within the coming month, I made known my request, ‘I don’t know y e t; but vengeance for logs would let them, begging for ship- A Threat from Canada,—The recent Aud “light” my command did attend; all the wrong he has done me I will J long in discovering how much his peace stern and cold.
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