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V"ol. I V F 8 &WMMIW Q q„ M&ZXiS, &£IUE®£V, &QV, X2* X88t. N o . lO . the “ Phonograph, tained by an accident; but we started pointed a whip at us. /i’hey didn’t even suggested years ago that Canada and the Thursday night, at 6.02 p. m., over the ask us to ride till we got outside of the de­ State of New York should unite in con­ verting Niagara Falls into an internation­ Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road, in a pot limits, and then—buzz-saw! ; Any­ al park. Ail buildings upon the banks, sleepless “sleeper ” Friday morning we where for a quarter, and a quarter only !'' he thought, should be levelled, trees plant­ Rates of Advertising. were rolling over the prairies ot Iowa, and Thanks to the newspapers ! we bad read ed, avenues laid out, seats erected, and a soon sighted the mighty Mississippi, which of them. 'Twas but two minutes’ walk to beautiful and secluded resort provided for Space. | 1 w. ] 3 w. 13 w. j 26 \y. 1 yr. visitors of all nations. was then and is yet on a bonder. the falls, so we footed it, one or two hack.- I inch, | .75 | 1.00 2.00 | 3.50 | 6.00 “ The improvements required upon the Crossing the Government bridge, where escorting us along the road and bogging American side would involve an outlay of 3__“ | 1.50 | 2.00 4.00 | 7.00 | 12.00 the recent steamboat accident occurred, the honor of our sent in tlieir carriage* a million dollars. Spent foolishly, that 3_ “ | 2.25 | 3.00 6.00 | 10.50 | 18.00 we inquired of the conductor and brake- But we resisted temptation. Facing the is a great deal of money ; spent in secur­ 1-2 col. | 4.50 | 6.00 12.00 | 21.00 | 36.00 ing Niagara Falls from disfiguration, it is man for the location of a town ten miles rain, we approached one of the most sub­ a trifle to such a country as ours.” 1 Col., | 9.00 I 12. 24.00 | 42.00 | 72.00 off their road. They knew not, and didn't lime of nature’s beauties and found it We arrive in Rochester in season to care to know. Got off at Rock Island and fenced in! Twenty-five cents toll. We take the train which left Chicago eight proper discount on all contracts spent the day there—missing connections tolled and saw a small part of the Amer­ amounting to $10 or more. hours later than we, and speed toward the by being an hour or two behind on the ican fall, and meandered through the dirty, Hudson river. A euchre party of entire main line. Stopped at Hampton a few unkept park. We didn’t go down into 0. M. MOORE, E d it o r & P r o p r ie t o r . strangers a moment ago beguiles the mid­ days. the “ Cave of the Winds,” for we were en­ night hours in “ ordering up” the ancient The silent creeping waters of the Miss­ joying another of Nature’s water-falls, couple opposite who have evidently been issippi threatened the stoppage of all trav­ minus oil-skin, minus cost. Goat Island Orionnal Matters. a day or two on a “ bridle tower.” Love's el, and we left the pleasant little town in could be visited fo" 50 els., by the day, young dream intensified ! a pouring rain-storm! Several hours in and SI.00 for the season. We expected Syracuse, and then Sehnectady is reach­ A STORY TOO PAINFULLY TRUE. Rock Island again, and the journey to­ to get seasoned during our short stay, and ed. At the latter place the porter broke ward Chicago was resumed. Train into paid 50 c!s. to another Irishman. From bis jaw, trying to say it the second time! Tee Snares that Beset a Country Ed­ Chicago several hours late; connections the bridge we saw up the rapids the sign We practiced on “ Mooseluomeguntic,” itor’s Life. with through train missed. At 9 :20 a placed on a log last winter by three fool­ “ Wellokennebacook,” and other lake friend desires us to spend the day, and hardy fellows, who barely -escaped with names, and stuttered so on the bare men­ Some. Reasons why a Man Should Attend to take the 5 p. m. train for Boston, arriving their lives. tion of this well-known N. Y. city, that His Own Business Affairs. there in the morning, Friday. No, the The description of Goat Island said it some of the passengers shod tears ! evening of Thursday suits us better. We d en- ed its name from the fact that some We went through Hoosac Tunnel (to 11Y THE RESET. start. Two hours brings us up in the goats were once pastured there, and they see the hole) in a dream, and woke as the town of Otis, Indiana. Here we overtake died there. Hang the Billy-goat that little darling with the red nose, in the It is not worth while to go back to the a train which left Chicago at 7 :30. A wouldn’t (lie there. The woods of Range- next seat was saying, “ Oh, budder, I do time of entering the arena of journalism— gravel train is off the track, a mile ahead, ley are kept in better shape than is this hobe bupper will beet us ad the debode !” even though it be but thri e short years and Otis thinks Otis a small place for even wooded island. A junketing simp greets Boston, arrive, Friday, at 9.30 a. m. Re­ since—in order to gather material suffic­ a rest of two or three hours. O’tis too you occasionally, and the rickety old stair­ bate office up town, and again too late for ient to warrant the protracted caption to painfull}' evident that it was no friend of cases over the brink of the falls had that train home; but we didn’t want to go this rhapsody. We shall commence witli ours who gave the town our name. But charm of danger to the novelty of the fact home that way. The obliging policeman n balmy day in October, and the starting- this coincidence decides our fate for the that you braved the attempt. We didn’t was certain the Kennebec boat left at 6 point is laid in the muddy South-West— rest of the journey. venture near the brink, nor did we see the oclock, and we visited several spokes of kbout the time the writer intended to start Eventually we glided by a pile of brok­ dog of Tailor’s Island. the Hub—the Fair, the park, the Public tor his native East. en “ flats,” and an effort was made to get The beauties of nature, in all hergrand- Garden, the Herald office—the handsomest Why in the West? Looking for that away as fast as possible. Toledo is reach­ ure and simplicity were lie-e, and every­ city visited in the trip; a paradise com­ better condition. ed at 9, instead of six, and she said she thing pointed to the fact that Niagararians pared with some. Wiiy going East? Satisfied the “ better was going down to the wedding, but would were bound so good a water-power should At noon we telegraphed for important condition” was back where we leit it. be there in season for the supper. We be made to “ pay’ if nary a wheel did spin. Standing for a moment on the high and had company as far as the wedding-place. We observed that the trick of the hack- information relative to our trip, to decide r°eky bluffs of Kansas City, wistfully we Then we complimented a young mother man was to “ take a passenger anywhere whether the boat or cars should carry us to Maine. A half a day did not bring the bend our gaze Eastward, while the sun at on the resemblance of her child; but a for twenty-five cents,” and he was then five o’clock, <}ur back settles contentedly behind the lantern-jawed chap told her to take her very sure to take bi n through every toll- answer, and the boat left at having just changed her time. Slecqi was western golden bills. ’Tis Wednesday, sister and come to his seat ere she was gate in the vicinity; across the new su s­ now quite a stranger, nothing but car- to be particular, and, with the grip-sack half acquainted. pension bridge (50 cts.) and back (same) naps having greeted our eyes for three s-nd other friends, we wind our way down Cleveland was passed at dead of night; and recommend, in glowing terms, the front the lofty eminence, and cross the here where “ a nation’s hope, a world's “ cave of the winds,” and other points, the days and nights. Arrived at Brunswick at about one n\vriad car-tracks of the great Union desire” lay low and silent in the sombre noble, generous, hackman getting a per­ ^lepot. Meantime a gentleman friend has tomb. Mentor was passed without slack­ centage on every toll given! o’clock at night, and should have to stay Hone to the down-town office to purchase ing of speed, and a memento from Gar­ We can hear.ily endorse the follow­ there or at Lewiston till two o’clock p. m. llckets for his good mother, who has also field’s former home was not obtained, as ing, clipped from a New York paper: Feeling uncertain about Augusta buisi- ness, and the failure to get an answer to Come from the East to see her children ; desired. “Niagara is not ours : it belongs to man­ aml fop the youth, who saw the smartest Erie, Pa., is parsed at daybreak, and kind ; we are only its custodians. Up to the telegram, we bought a ticket to Au­ city in the new South-West, andyetloved soon a sight of Buffalo, N. Y., is obtained the present time we have not very faith­ gusta. An old friend and acquaintance fully discharged our great trust. was the conductor, and our trip to the b's home among the rocks, the rivulets, across a portion of Lake Erie around which “ Even as a resort for sightseers and ex­ lbe lakes, the mountains, the woods and we swept with a gentle curve. Late cursionists it is becoming unpopular. West and now to Augusta was well un­ fields of the Pine Tree State, far more, again are the cais, and an hour or two is There are two reasons given for this—the derstood. He took the ticket, and peace­ extortions of hackrnen and store-keepers, spent here. If going direct, we should fully we dropped to sleep in the car-seat, a°d he was now to return, satisfied his de­ and the operations of manufacturers who as “ Next station is Richmond” was sound­ cision was for the best, and would “ stand.’’ wait at Buffalo half a day, perhaps, but are making use ot the immense water fa- Trains came and went. People went our ticket was good via. Niagara Falls, cilites of tiie place at the expense of its nat­ ed along the line. We should arrive in ural beauty. and came. Our train came and went; and we were soon flitted up past Fort Erie, Augusta at 3 in the morning, and possi­ but our people came not, neither went we. getting a peek at the old fort and the U. “The too-enterprising Yankee has al­ bly would find two-thirds of the family ready much impaired the picturesqueness awaiting us there. If not, we could re­ AVel 1 satisfied to remain in the city an- S. Consulate. Here we fell in with a gen­ of the-American shore, and threatens it °Uier night, our party again mounted tleman to whom “a real live Yankee" was with early destruction. Batty Island is turn via. Brunswick, at 10.30. The cars ll‘c heights, and the evening we spent at a curiosity—but he was a gentleman, and rendered unsightly by the ruins of a sped on, and dreams chased one another burned paper mill, and everywhere along through a heavy head and throbbing brain, uiagnificent Coates Opera House, the entertained the Yankee nicely. the banks of the river are mills, hotels, Tffieile Melville troupe presenting “ Bo- Soon Niagara’s cataract was ringing in gas works and lumber heaps. wearied with nearly four thousand miles °aceio,” to a large and fashionable audi- our ears, and we got out determined to “ Lord Dufferin, the brilliant and en­ of rail-roading, sickness and dirt. A full erice, (_)ur “ ticket agent” had been de­ perish or conquor every hackipan who lightened ex-Governor-General of Canada, head of steam was on, and the throttle- 2 The Lhillips Phonograph, a Live, Local PaDer.-Sl.50 per Year.

valve was wide open on our “ snorer,” the Oct. 15th is sent, and another, not think­ Our “hitch” w-as not with the Journal On Time- passengers said, as the stentorian tones of ing of any possible mention of our trip that —the leading paper in the city—but plain a brakeman rang through the ears—“ Wa- would not be “ good, easy reading” for figures showed that a doubling of salary The merry Christmas season is drawing terville! Waterville! change cars for even our Eeastern friends in the West. and trebling of expenses would not war­ near; the year grows decrepit, and feels Skowhegan—this car runs to Bangor!” But, hark! now comes another brotherly rant the freedom of the bird in the hand already the chilly hand of winter striking Boots and grip-sack in hand, we stag­ letter telling of sorrow in the place so re­ for two in the bushes natural to other to its heart. The small boy of the period gered to the platform—crying, laughing, cently visited. We are reminded of hav­ climates. begins to count the days* to Christmas and checks them off, one by one as they pass, swearing, all in one big lump, stuck in ing written, on our return, such an article Have we unravelled this snarl? If so, with a smile for those that have vanished, tiie throat, and we expected to suffocate! as the same “ Home Again.” Blazes! someone please hold this tangle, while and an O’Donovan Rossa sort of desire to The conductor laughed and the train We get it. We read it! Oh, Fate!—just we pick away at i t : — look at some of the items : annihilate those that are to come. The moved on. 3 :30 o’clock, and 18 miles A valued friend in Massachusetts, in HOME AGAIN. young man meditates on the new leaf he above Augusta! No other train down riv­ our absence wrote for “ a dozen copies of er till the regular train to Brunswick! And mighty glad to get there. is resolved to turn with the new year, and the paper, etc., and send your bill.” Only Boys who swear copiously for a quarter, Glad to get to a spot where your bed­ decides that a few more black marks on room is big enough to turn a double hand­ one of the desired copies could be found, could not be found, so we nursed the bile the leaf at present open will be rather a spring in without landing two-thirds out and it was gladly sent, also the words— so gall darned bitter! (we did well not to of the window. good thing than otherwise, as tending to “ This is the only copy—gratis.” In the say anything worse !) Glad to find a bed where the footboard make the leaf-turning process aforesaid is a few inches below your feet, instead of same mail with the letter before mention­ We thought to pass it off in a visit to more pleasing and striking; and the maid­ a few inches above your knee, making it ed, we received the following epistle : en dreams of Christmas parties and New the “ Sentinel” office; but the hour was necessary to sleep in an uncomfortable, early even for the printer. But time was halt-open jackknife attitude. “ Some weeks ago I wrote to you for a Year calls, with, it may be, a trifle of sup­ few copies of your P h o no , of Sept. 17th. precious, and Archie Smith's hostler was Glad to get a square meal into your erstitious veneration for the ancient rite system garnished with simply the provis­ Shortly after, received one copy, and with of the Mistletoe Bough. Papa, inspecting routed up and feed to take the mishap to ion dealer's profits; a meal that you feel it was the notification that ‘that was the his bank account, thinks Christmas gifts a Augusta, which he did in two hours and sure that you can eat. only copy to be had g ra tis. ’ Now I nuisance, but supposes he’ll have to make Glad to “ slosh” around in your own wanted the copies to scatter among my some all the same. Mamma’s deft fingers ten minutes, arriving there at 6 :30. sporting friends. Not that I think the Those eyelids were now so swollen that bath tub where there is no deathly fear are busy with cunning needlework, while of an “ undertow.” sketch has any merit, but to show them her mind adverts to mince pies and pud­ people made remarks, and the poor de­ Glad someone can speak to you and that sporting in Maine is superior to other dings full of plums; and meetings of the luded eyes could scarcely peep from be­ answer a civil question without charging places that they incline to go to. smaller fry are held in secret places to “fifty cents all round.” “Now I don’t wish you to send me any discuss the enthralling question, “ what neath the dead weights. copies '■gratis,' as I am able and willing The principle object of the trip was else­ Glad it isn't necessary to lie to strang­ do you suppose we’ll get,” or the less ab­ ers about your extensive business and to pay for all you may send ; but if you sorbing proposition, ‘.‘what had we better where. and back to Brunswick went the your magnificient establishment. You have a dozen, or five dozen, and will send give.” rambler, with just time for a word and a can’t fool people that have known you them to me, with youj' bill, I will remit by Meanwhile, those whose special busi­ first mail.” shake to many friends in Augusta and from a boy up, so you don't have to try. ness it is to minister to the wants of Christ­ Gardiner. Glad you had money enough left to get This, too, is now explained; but we mas keepers, have not been idle; in proof whereof tiiere comes to us by mail the home after your hotel bills were paid. shall sometime republish the desired arti­ The telegram and its outgrowth cost us Glad that you can roam into every Christmas number of our old friend, Eli- just -$7.10—simply because we could not room of the house at your own sweet cle, and then our friend can have a liber­ rich's Fashion Quarterly, full from end to get an answer. The fault was not here. will. al quantity—and gratis, if he will receive end of things for old and young, and sug­ gestive, on every page, of ways to make We got home, after cautioning our con­ Home again. And you inwardly vow- them so. Our man wrote, “ Only copy— that you will let the tendrils of your affec­ Christmas pleasant, and the holiday sea­ gratis,” as there was no bill for so small a ductor not to carry us by. tions so cling around your own vine and son a time of rejoicing in very truth. Xow let us fix up a few mnsh&pa oc­ fig trees that you uever will desert its favor to a subscriber. The amount of information about < Christ­ curring in our absence and since our ar­ comforts again—never, never. But in Yet another matter, of a similar nature, mas gifts that the publishers have man­ rival. less than three months, guide books and aged to compress into the present issue of “ resort” literature will begin to flood your has already been corrected. \ this popular magazine, is astonishing. Among selected articles in the paper of post office box, and you will find your­ The last scrape that we propose to men­ Besides the usual illustrated account of the date of our arrival, appeared an arti­ self planning just another lay-out for next tion herewith, is of a purely local nature the Fashions in dresses, bonnets, etc., the whole Christmas market is passed in re­ cle, on a “ Miscellaneous” page, bearing summer. The nomadic instincts of hu­ Having a large amount of business on man nature will not down after they have view, and the choicest articles of foreign the caption of “ Home Again,” and nei­ been once gratified. hand, in “ catching up,” and a convention and domestic make, suitable for presents, ther name or credit were attached to it. Through some oversight the article was of Good Templars to make arrangements are illustrated and described. For the Yes, we were home again, but this article for,the kind offices of a friend were accept­ older folks are all the newest designs in not credited to the paper from which it china, majolica, silver ware, embroideries, ed gratefully, wherein he agreed to en­ was printed as early as Wednesday, and came, and it was supposed by some to be bronzes, clocks, etc.; for the younger are the paper was issued while we were in from our humble pen ! gage special rates and a train for down­ books and games, albums, dressing cases, Boston. We casually observed such an ar­ We will pay a liberal reward to the first river folks. Success was reported, and jewelry, music folios, papeteries, and a hundred other items; while for the child­ who shall correctly inform us of the au­ the arrangements made. The day came, ticle,, and thought nothing more of it. ren is an array of toys such as, it is safe Now we have been accused of w ritin g thor’s address, or will pay liberally for a as did also a few delegates over the rail­ to say was never collected into a single the article, as a reflection on the people paper containing the article, the paper to road, and they reported “full fare paid volume before. Cheap and dear, old- and place visited. Be it known that we be dated prior to Oct. 15th, 1881. the road.” Busy day, but the Supt. must fashioned and new, indestructible and be seen immediately, and the matter right­ fragile, simple and ingenious—every va­ went out West to look into a position or A careful reader might observe that the riety of toy ever yet invented to charm two, which had been offered in the past article was written by some one who had ed before next train, or “ no one would the heart of childhood, is here represent­ year. One of the most flattering propos­ spent the season at some “resort,” where come.” Supt. acknowledged the arrange­ ed. There are automatic birds in cages, that als came from the business manager of “ undertows” were common. We were ments had been made—with the one im­ chirp and sing like live canaries; there portant exception : the sub-committee had the Kansas City Journal, of which we not “ resorting.” are wonderful savings banks,that perform have given a description in the paper of a But no wonder a true friend should not named the day! But we'd now make such curious antics with each deposit, that recent date. We were sumptously en­ feel aggrieved at such allusions to a mod­ the best of it, and a telegram was dictated economy becomes a pleasure; there are boats that sail, and steam engines that tertained by the manager at his private el home! and above all, the pointed para­ to send to the R. R. ticket agents, order­ work, and monkeys that walk and climb; ing reduced fares. A special operator was and handsome residence, on a principle graph in regard to “ lying about your ex­ there are tops, and skates, and velocipedes street, and enjoyed every luxury the city tensive business !” And we had, just the busy at work half a day, and not a word and sleds; deer and goats, and horses and afforded, even to a ride about the city in a week before, given the establishment a could be sent over the wires below Strong, cows; Noah’s arks and grocery stores; on account of the storm; consequently, printing presses and spelling games; dolls barouche the day before leaving, in com­ notice of over a column ! In fact, it is one with their houses and furniture; rattles, pany with our generous host. After com­ of the finest enterprises of the enterpris­ but one came up on the next train, where­ Christmas tree ornaments, and picture paring notes, and having a taste of city ing Kansas City. While wre were there, as many intended to have attended the books; in short it were easier to say what there is not than what there is. The book journalism, we decided deliberately that four solid men from Chicago offered $40,- convention. Not even this and the storm is a complete compendium of Christmas could defeat the object of the meeting, and our bonanza was in the far East, and 000 for one-half interest in the establish­ gifts, and happy will be the cliitd, and with many thanks to one who had done ment. $50,000 was the price. it ended with a grand good oyster supper. wise the parent, in whose home it finds a bis best to be our benefactor and friend, Were we so unkind as to pen those But the last end of this mishap was in place. Every article is lucidly described, and the prices of all are given—and very' we departed almost regretfully, in some leaving the remaining gallon of oysters in lines, (“ Home again”) we should deserve moderate they seem. things, for our distant home. to be branded a rascal of the meanest a warm place over night and donating As a special compliment to their Christ­ The substance of this narrative was de­ kind! Our word could not be depended them to the editor’s family for the mor­ mas patrons, the publishers announce that layed by press of work, and a late hour upon, and it would prove beyond a rea­ row’s dinner! they will send to each subscriber whose subscription reaches them within a cer­ of the night is now employed in an en­ sonable doubt that we did not even know Sick family, Friday, but nothing has tain limited time, a copy of the “ Christ­ deavor to right a seeming wrong, among our own mind! Go back on a benefactor since happened to mar the perfect peace mas Muscal Album,” which is described the many mishaps contingent upon our and friend? no, no; not the P h o n o g r a p h ! of a day, even though the place of our as a collection of nine pieces of music by Gounod, Godfrey, and others, specially pleasant journey. We did speak depreciatingly of some of abode was Saturday moved to another adapted to the Christmas season. This A letter comes from the Western city, the attaches of the establishment, and quarter. But as we look back upon our alone is said to be worth the whole sub­ a few days since, saying, “ Our last week's were we “ master of the situation,” at many and fitful adventures, we cannot scription price of the magazine. paper has not yet arrived—is there some­ least three of the lesser lights would get feel secure, and shall make careful obser­ The Fashion Quarterly is published by Klirich Bros., of Eighth Avenue, New thing in it that causes you to withhold it the g. b. quicker than the winds of Mis­ vations of our checkered horizon till the York, at 50 cents a year, or 15 cents a from us ?” Immediately the paper of souri can turn mud to blinding dust. 4th of July is passed. copy. m m 3 The Fhillips Phonograph, a Live, Local Taper.-SI.50 per Y ear

F a r m & Household. the land will advance in fertility t marked extent. But why continue to give methods? Keeping up the Soil. The enterprising farmer who will think is able to devise his own plans and methods The editor of the Petersburg (Va.) Ru­ and the dilatory and doubting would not ral Messenger says the importance of a The largest stock of Goods ever iu Phillips. My stock never was as large, act, were we to advance a hundred. We having added many new lines of Goods this fall, and I invite all sound practice, no less than sound views, can only hope that one example of good in regard to exhaustion and recuperation to call and look when in Puillips, whether iu want of farming here and there will eventually GOODS or not. of the soil cannot be overestimated. Un­ lead all to adopt a sound practice, and less the farmer can preserve, and increase then poor farms will be the exception and the fertility of his lands, as year by year not the rule. he crops them, he is slowly but surely los­ Dry Goods Department ing ground, and will sooner or later be N ew Cooking U t e n s il .—The ordina­ In this department can lie found all the new shades of DRESS FLAN­ brought to want if he does not mend his ry range and cook stove, in which the fire­ NELS, Colored Cashmere, new shades BLACK CASHMERE, 40 inch, 50 practice. The native or natural fertility box is placed at the side of the oven, or cts., 46 inch, 75 To 90 cts. Cotton and wool Dress Goods in new styles. of land is the country’s vital strength, in which tlm products of combustion pass Plaids, Stripe satins to match new shades of Dress Goods. Black Satins, and the improvement of this land so as to over the top, have the disadvantage of an Silk Velvets. Velveteens, Table Linen, Towels and Napkins. A full line make it doubly or trebly productive is the irregularly heated oven. The sides and of Flannel Shirting’, Water-proofing, Cloakings, Spreads, Eastings, wool­ nations’ power in the marts of the world. top are hotter than the bottom and ends ens and in fact, everything usually found in a Dry Goods Store. Remem­ This is also true of each individual farm or other side, and, as a result, the bread ber my MOTTO, “LOWER THAN THE LOWEST.” and man who is engaged in farming. or other food is impropperly cooked—per­ haps burned at the top while badly done It follows, then, that all exhaustion of at the bottom. To correct this defect in the soil which is not immediately replaced, hawl Department. ovens, a simple appliance has been devis­ is a gradual destroying of the force of in­ I keep a nice line of Ready made Cloaks, Shawls, both single and double, ed for causing the air in the oven to cir­ dividual and national prosperity, and de­ aud they' shall be sold at LIVE AND LET LIVE prices. culate, and thus carry the heat obtained fine in both must be looked for in pro­ by radiation to all parts of the oven. A portion to the rate of that exhaustion. sheet of metal, bent into the form of the How important, then, that farmers look Fancy Goods Department. top and one side of the oven, is supported "’ell in their ways, and strive not only to on wire standards and placed in the oven. I keep a full line of Ladie^’ Fancy Goods, consisting of Ladies’ Collars prevent depletion but to promote recuper­ In the narrow space between the sheet Collarets, Ribbons, Children’s Collars, Pocket Books, Shopping Bags ation. metal and the hot side and top of the oven Cuffs, Buttons, Back combs, Handkerchiefs, Spanish Laces in cream and In the occupancy of newly cleared land, the air is heated more than in the main black, Silk fringes, Cords, Tassels, Silk Handkerchiefs aud Kid Cloves. there is a tendency to a great waste of the body of the oven, and by expansion it A full line of Children’s and Ladies’ woolen Hose, Hamburgs, Belts, Mil- 'irgin fertility, until the owner discovers lens, Hoods, Jackets aud Clouds. The largest line of Corsets in Franklin rises and moves over the top of the oven, that the land is giving back and needs couuty. Ball yarns. Skein yarns, Scotch yarns, Saxony varus, worsteds, toward the cooler walls. The arrange­ recuperating. But then the work is too Cologne, &c., &e. If you are iu want of any goods in the fancy goods ment, simple as it is, appears to be found­ burdensome, and ten to one recuperation line, be sure and call before you buy, and save money. ed on a good idea, and is reported to work 18 never adequate to the necessities of the well in practice. The apparatus examin­ case. The true way is, to so cultivate nderw ar epartment anthree years. Pigs arc able to consume far more food No. 2 Return nothing to the land except what in proportion to their weight than either B. F. HAYDEN, Beal Block, Phillips, IVIe. l'le sheep deposit in a natural way; yet sheep or oxen. 4; Tlie IPLillips 'Plionograpli, a Live, Local PaBer.-Sl.50 per Year.

Temrerance Trntlrs. Non Resident Taxes ^ We would In the town of Avon, County of Franklin for the year 1880. Good Templarism. The following list of taxes on real estate respectfully call the of non-resident owners, in the town of Avon for the year 1880, in bills committed to Watches! Franklin county, previous to last win­ T. W. Vining, Collector of said town, on the ninteenth day of August, A. D. 1880, has been attention of the pub­ ter—for a few years back—was not partic­ returned by him to me, as remaining unpaid on the 18th day of August, A. D. 1881, by his ularly burdened with organized temper­ certificate of that date, and now remain un­ lic to our large stock ance effort, there being for a time but one paid. And notice is hereby given that if said Watches,'Watches taxes and interest and charges are not paid or two temperance societies in the county. into the treasury of said town within eigh­ of During tlie latter part of last winter, and teen months from the date of the commit­ ment of said bills, so much of the real estate through the efforts of representatives of taxed as will be sufficient to pay the amount due therefor, including interestand charges, Elgin, tlie Order, the number of lodges in the will, without lurther notice be sold at pub­ county was increased to a good dozen.— lic auction at my house, in said town, on the second day of March, A. D. 1882, at 1 o’clock Waltham, These lodges yet flourish and bid fair to P ,acres .value, tax. Roots!) ShoesD do a good work in the cause. At the re­ Owner’s name, lot, range Beal, J. C. 6 12 2 §80 $1.68 Springfield, cent convention of Good Templars, in Burgess, Wm. 8 1 10 30 .63 “ 7 1 30 30 .63 Phillips, it was reported that most of the Chandler, Joel, 1 J 50 135 2.83 Lancaster. lodges represented were made up of young “ “ 1 40 60 1.26 Cashman, Samuel, 1 1 15 90 1.89 people—and we may add, with now and Fellows, Jonathan, 8 3 160 100 2.10 which we are prepar­ then a temperance veteran —a Thwing, a “ “ 9 3 16 20 .42 Fuller, Henry, 5 75 1.57 Gilkey and Kempton, a Leavitt, a Chick, 8 60 1.26 ed to sell at prices Flagg, Asa, 80 75 1.51 or a Butterfield—to encourage the young Libby, VVm. V. 3 2 160 225 4.72 Swiss Watches! " “ 4 2 74 50 1.05 which guarantee sat­ and aid the good work. The various Mace, Benjamin, 8 2 160 150 3.15 lodges, besides their quiet temperance McKrillis, Albert, 7 1 50 75 1.57 9 3 60 40 .84 isfaction. For Ladies k Gents, work, are, each in their own way, devis­ Norton, Samul R. 13 1 50 3.15 Nile, VV. A. 7 1 90 112 2.35 ing ways and means whereby they may “ “ 8 1 70 60 1.26 make their weekly meetings interesting, Perkins, F. 0. A New Lot Just Pieceived, Bassett Norton land, 28 230 5.95 profitable and attractive. A part of each Ro«s, Raymond, Do not go with Ricker Pasture, 140 250 5.25 and Selling at the meeting is usually and beneficially devot­ Ramsdell, J S. 1 9 70 300 6.30 ed to social and intellectual entertainment. Ross, Wm. Est. 3 11 22 44 M cold feet when we Roberts, Nathaniel, 12 2 160 120 2.52 Lowest Prices, These meetings—if properly conducted— Sweat, Jedediah, may be made the means of great benefit Bates stand 19 175 3.67 are selling Farmers’ Stevans, Alfonzo, 9 1 80 75 1.57 to our youth, in many ways. It is a good Staples, B. S. 7 1 40 60 1.26 Staples, Jesse. 8 1 40 60 1.26 Wool Boots at a bar­ school for the young man—and for older Swift, J.S. 8 6 150 112 2.35 Now is the Time Tiinberlake, Greely, 9 1 60 75 1.57 ones, too—in parliamentary tactics, as Vining, Charles H. 2 6 160 300 6.30 gain. well as in social culture; for the young Wright, Jonathan, 2 4 80 90 1.89 T O BUY. “ “ 2 3 160 150 3.15 lady, in literary exercises and scope for u u 3 4 80 75 1.57 her peculiar power and influence. Wade, Samuel, 400 700 14.70 Williams, Thomas, 11 1 150 225 4.72 There’s a lack of parental care and so­ 10 1 40 90 1.89 Willard, Nathaniel, 30 75 1.57 If you would have L. T. Wade’s, licitude for the temperance status of the Withara, Daniel S, 1 1 80 120 2.50 York, Samuel, 4 3 65 100 2 10 dry feet, buy a pair community and household. Fathers and 9 JOEL WILBUR, Treasurer of Avon. mothers have regretted in the past, and of our Grain Boots. Farm ington, 3X0. 9 will regret in the future, that they have TEA C H ER ’S looked lightly upon the temperance efforts put forth in their own midst. HEW AND LARGE Seven of the lodges in the county were INSTITUTE We are selling A STOCK OF « af represented at the above-mentioned meet­ of two days, will be held at ing and memberships were reported as Men’s Thick Boots follows: Rangeley, 98; Phillips, G9; Farmington, on Fri, & Sat., Strong, 60; Farmington, 50; Kingfield, Fov. 25 and 26, 1881, at from §1.75 to $4. 50; Bean’s Corner, 40; Salem, 27. Under the direction of Hon. N. A. LUCE, Crockery State Superintendent of Schools, assisted by per pair. The officers of the Strong Lodge, I. O. prominent educators. Ladies attending will be furnished with of G. T., for the present quarter, were free entertainment. recently installed as follows : Cordial and earnest invitation is extended to all Teachers, School officers and friends W . C. T.—Carrie Brown. of Common Schools, to attend and partici­ R. H. S.—Noah Pottle. pate in the exercises of this meeting. A New Line of L. H. S.—Lewis Dyer. 3t.9 N. A. LUCE. W. V. T.—George Daggett. State Supt. of Schools Men’s Solid Heeled Lamps, Chimneys, &c. Educational Dep’t, Augusta, Oct, SS7, ’81. W. Sec’y.—Henry Kennedy. M . A. S.—Flora Winslow. Dr. Z. Y. Carvill, Overs on hand. W. F. S.—Miss Parsons. W. Treas.—Walter Daggett. Chaplain.—J. W. Kempton. Marshal.—Charles Porter. W. D. M.—Abby Wright. DENTIST In Ladies’ Goods'Ll! OHCl M A m M W. I. G.—Mattie Hutchings. W. O. G.—Frank Gilman. our stock is com­ P. W. C. T.—C. B. Richardson. Beal Block, 9tf Phillips, Me. The lodge is now composed of 62 mem­ D. H. TOOTHAKER~ plete. Doors, bers in good standing, and is in excellent Dealer in finaeial condition, as well as otherwise Sash and prospering. DRY GOODS & GROCERIES, Blinds, Farmington lodge is holding occasional 5 Beal Block, Phillips, where public meetings and Phillips lodge will Good Goods at Low Prices We are also offer­ probably do the same through the winter 2 is the order of the day. months. The latter lodge will hold a ing extra trades in public meeting Tuesday evening of next FARMERS week, when a public discussion of an im­ In want of a good, portable Crockery and Glass­ ISON AND STEEL portant question will occur. Fruit Evaporator ware. E x t r a c t F ro m L e t t e r .—“ In the winter of 1877—8, I was confined to the Will do well to send a card for circular to O. H. NORTON, Strong, Me. CUTLERY, house 3 or 4 months and to the bed 4 Residence, Mile Square Road, Avon. 3t7 weeks with Rheumatism. I could get no Dry Goods & Gro­ relief. I began using Henry & Johnson’s Plated Ware, Etc« Arnica & Oil Liniment, and in ten days Girls Wanted, ceries at Bottom Pri­ by the use of half a bottle I was cured. rpo work in Coat Shop. •* Inquire at N a t h a n J e w e t t , East Haddam. Ct.” BOSTON CLOTHING HOUSE ces. Guns, Revolvers Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cure all dis­ Farmington. 2t9* GEO. H. JACOBS. eases arising from biliousness. N. H. ------AND------t l ChC f n (SOOperday at home. Samples ^jvEavtxTjN rx^ioisr. Downs’ Vegetable Balsamic Elixir cures kpC uU worth $5 free. Address Coughs, Colds and Consumption. Nov. ly23* Stnison &Co., Portland, Me G. A. FRENCH. W. F. FULLER, Phillip* The Thillips Phonograph, a, Live, Local T ap er.-S I.50 per Year.

At Astoria, 111., a freight train ran into W, Fred P. Fogg. A. Lincoln Hoffses, 1ST ews of the W eek. an extra freight Sunday morning. Sever­ al cars were wrecked and two passengers in a way car killed. At Bryant’s Bond the other day, as a trial of skill, Galen Curtis shot an apple Steamer City of New York, just arrived off from the head of C. T. Sessions, at a at San Francisco from Australia brought T 1 I E distance of from forty to fifty feet. Ses­ $1,042,750 in gold, all for use in the Unit­ sions then did the same from Curtis’head. ed States. The shooting was done with a rifle, off­ A man named Leonard, one hundred hand. and nine years old, was burned to death at St. Augustine, Ont., by his clothes tak­ The new town clock has arrived at ing fire. Presque Isle, and will soon he placed in the Belfry of the Free Baptist church. At Wheeling, W. Va., two of a band It is the only town clock in the county, of redmen who were sentenced to a year’s and is a gift to the town by John Allen, imprisonment, were released by their com­ Fsq., of Maysvitle, and its cost was $450. rades. FARMERS' A terrible typhoon has just ravaged Alt Kim, a Chinese student at Maretta western Tonquin, in Southern Asia. 200 College, has committed suicide because a churches, 32 parsonages, 8 colleges and servant girl refused his love. 200 houses were destroyed. 0,000 Chris­ Messrs. Goss & Sawyer have contracted tians are without resources. Losses are to rebuild and put in thorough repair, the immense and distress terrible. steamer City of Richmond. While grinding apples in a cider mill at The wife of Mark Hutchins, of Cape Last____ Fryelmrg_____0 ___last _____ Friday,ackay Geo. Mac Neddick, gave birth last Sabbath to three caught his index finger between the ‘'nuts'’ hoys. One was still-born. which stopped the mill, and on withdraw­ Tom Bates, colored, was hung Friday ing his hand he tore out the finger, and at Jonesboro, Ga., for the murder of Judge with it ten inches of tendon. Hilly arc! Moore last fall. In the city of Canton, Mississippi, The only child of Fred Witham of Ells­ PRODUCE EXCHANUE Wednesday, J. G. Thigpen, Independent worth, is dead from the ' effects of a fall Democratic candidate for cotton weigher, which injured the brain. was shot and mortally wounded in a diffi­ Charles E. Nash, publisher of the Maine culty with City Marshal Kemp, which had Farmers’ Almanac, printed this year an its origin in politics. edition of over 40,000. Garments found on a dock in New York Workmen on the Panama canal strike Thursday, had in the pockets papers bear­ frequently and express contempt for their ing the address, James P. Lewis, No. 20 No. 1, Porter Building, Franklin street, New Haven, Conn., or French masters. Bristol, R. I. The owner had apparently E. Austen, of New York, has accepted drowned himself. Dr. Carver's challenge for pigeon shoot­ ing matches. Col. Watson R. Smith, clerk of the Ramsdall, clerk for the coal firm of United States Circuit Court, at Omaha, Cheney & Co., New York, lias decamped Neb., was found dead lying outside his with $5,000. office door, where he had been shot by an President Arthur did not register in unknown assassin. There is great public New York, and therefore did not vote on STRONG,------MAINE. excitement. Tuesday. The trial of W. K. Scott, formerly Gov­ There were eight deatiis from yellow ernor of South Carolina, for the murder fever in Havana, during the past week. pf Warren G. Drury, on Christmas morn­ The Times says that a national bank is ing last, which lias been in progress for soon to he established in Houlton. two weeks past, resulted in a verdict of not guilty. , ___A civil service reform association has John Shea and Frank Foss, who es- been formed in Boston, caped from jail at St. Louis, Mo., were ; The sugar crop of Cuba t u y discovered committing burglary. One of {be a splendid one them shot policeman Doran dead; but they were subsequently captured. Martin Goldworthy, in jail at Paris, Lo­ gan county, Ark., for murder, escaped re­ EVERYTHING cently by leaving his mother in his cell - TJf:____ _ atul wearing a portion of her clothing to 1m Jh . ^ t J. disguise him as he passed out. - t> fry? That a Farmer raises taken in exchange A stranger roaming about in Bath late Thursday night was arrested and marched for goods, FAIR PRICES. to the lockup, where he was searched, B8gSS8S!G§!3£> at and a jimmy such as are used by burglars § • i f : m was found upon him. J-SfELs g o ***> ■ j gtejkJtartbfe£-0 jS."® 3 r . “zA First Assistant Postmaster General Hat­ o- ton has returned from Iowa and resumed S?.®S.g => .rE.'rgf" m m m o charge of his office Monday. He will al­ so act as Postmaster-General during Mr. Janies’ absence. I fgB £ 3 m “The Home Farm,’’ Augusta, complet­ fSeaiMiiKo > £ g - i Sb® ® t » ® zx} ed the first year of its existence Thurs­ ? pSg.fr? 2.13-Z-ZVF- C’c'ff day. It now lias a circulation of rising three thousand, and is rapidly increasing. s 69 *■ ~ H r‘ w .J • *<. O O jj The body of a female child, well dress­ ed, aged about three years, was found in ® r n S2 glSSlTS^c-sl.-? ^ the river at Boston Friday, with a small im i it < FLOUR TRADE a Specialty. blanket wrapped tightly about its head. iw A bill giving....n W the lm right , of suffrage to W women has passed the lower branch of the j r'g n a 7* o p Washington Territory legislature, hut it i Q2- ■ F’H.gri ' ^ = 2 Er Was defeated- in the upper •branch ’ ' o§1 Q 3 ft. | % 3-f At Wakefield, Mass., in a local rifle C=7: M r - S s - to tournament, A. Maynard of Medford, in S ssg g - £2 tbe 200 yards match, made 105 out of a Otf possible 105, the best on record. m s pi An old man lias been murdered, it is |^ |g - ES^ghWe buy our goods at first hands a'leged, in Lancashire county, Pa., by S?oS,"Vi Parties who were interested in graveyard and can’t be beat on prices. tnsurance policies on his life. P it e-c e ® The training stable of Warren A. Bus- s

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g*g|P*With the present flattering pros­ The Elections. L ooa L 1ST otes. fix® pects of the P h o n o ., but a few things stand in the way of its rapid advancement, The Lewiston Journal says, the elec­ —County news on the 8th page. its size and usefulness. We would like tion returns to the morning papers make —“ Good easy reading” at this office. to enlarge to 16 pages now, without in­ little change in the figures as given Wed­ —Come in and look at our premiums. creasing the price of subscription. Our nesday night. In New York the election of Carr (rep.) as Secretary of the State —One touch of winter makes us aciie advertising will now nearly warrant it. again. by 5,000 plurality, is conceded. The But we must secure three objects first. —Our village schools will close next balance of the State ticket is in doubt. We have all the room we want, and a week, Friday. lease for five years—rent paid in advance The New York legislature is probably — Remember what Records says to you democratic by a small majority. In Vir­ Entered as Second Class Mail Matter. for nearly 6 months. Now we want a new on another page. and larger press; then we want a steam ginia the Mahone men and republicans —Capt. J. C. Leal h is moved back to his farm in Avon. engine to run it. We now need the latter. have swept everything before them, thus —Plenty of good literature for sale or Phillips, Franklin Co,, Me. All we want now is the consent of the Ma­ securing an anti-Bourbon U. S. Senator to let, at this office. sons, who occupy and own the hall above, in place of Johnson (dem.). • Mississippi S aturday, INo>'. IS, 1 8 8 1 . has gone democratic by 20,000 majority. —Mrs. I. N. Packard, of Indian Rock, and of the citizens of Phillips to was. in town Tuesday. The Maryland legislature is in doubt. our putting in a small steam engine —Noble lias a new and full line of O. M. MOORE, E d it o r & P r o p r ie t o r . which could be used to advantage in sup­ The republicans have carried Minnesota nubias scarfs, hoods, etc. * plying the village with water, and power by 25,000 majority, Wisconsin by 6,000, —N. P. Noble is building a new plat­ Nebraska 18,000, and Pennsylvania 6,000. form in front of his store. ^ggp*Phillips has the reputation of being for other small machinery. The press we can have without the consent of any­ The N. Y. Tribune says Carr’s (rep.) —Several original temperance items one of the most enterprising country majority for Secretary of State .is 8,700, will be found on ihe -4th page. one, hut our subscribers. If two-thirds towns in the State. Yet she is quietly that the Senate will stand two majority —Mrs. Julia Lambert has gone to visit “ resting on her laurais” and waiting most of those in arrears (the whole would be for the democrats, with four democratie friends in Natick, Mass., for the winter. majority in the house. better) would pay up and keep up, we — Portland is just adopting our home­ patiently for something to turn up. The The World gives| he democrats two ma­ made telephone system, for short circuits. indications are at present that several could fit our office out to our hearts’ con­ jority in the senate and six majority in things will shortly “turn up,'’ hut just far tent, witli ready money. Don't wait for the house, and claims the election of —Geo. McCleary, of South Strong, ad­ vertises a large quantity of brick for sale. enough away from our prescinets that we us to tell you when your time runs out; State officers bv majorities from 2,000 to but send in whatever amount you wish, 20, 000. —Call at Noble’s and see his elegent as- may behold but not enjoy them. We The Whig (Mahone) says: Col. Cam­ sortmen of crockery—finest ever in town, have had many opportinuties, but because and we will give proper credit. It costs eron and our whole Virginia State ticket he says. * some little encouragement was asked, us a great deal to issue notices through is certainly elected by a majority of not —Miss Ada Iianl seems to be pleasant­ they have passed us by. Now we hear the mails to delinquents, and we hope it less than 12,000. We have carried both ly situated in miiiinery business, at Me­ will not be necessary. We should prefer branches of the Assembly by a joint ma­ chanic Falls. that Strong, already ahead of us in man­ jority exceeding that of the last Legisla­ ufacturing, is to have a corn-canning fac­ to take one-half our dues than to be com­ ture. —You can get insured here now, just pelled to issue dues every quarter. Now Revised estimates from all but five as well as ever, though our advertisement tory; Salem on the other hand, bids fair is crowded out. give the P h o n o , a Christmas present in counties of Pennsylvania, give Bailey, to secure the mills for manufacture of —A special meeting of No. Frankl n the shape of simply what is our due. New (rep.) for state Treasurer, 6,285 plural­ birch and poplar timber; Weld on the ity. Grange will he held on Saturday evening right, taunts our quiet, peaceful vale with subscribtions also make appropiate pres­ Returns from one-third of Minnesota at 6 1-2 o’clock. the enterprising sound of push and enter­ ents. We have received several the past gives Hubbard (rep) for governor 20,060; —The Grangers met at Simon Booker's Johnson (dem.) 11,530, a falling off of 30 Thursday afternoon and evening, about prise, in the power of steam, and now week. to 40 per cent, from the vote of last year. 35 being present. Madrid, at the west of ns, besides her When one of the editors of the Kan­ Further returns insure the election of —The wind of Wednesday night, con­ present facilities for working up lumber, sas City Journal read the article “ Home the republican state ticket in Wisconsin, tinuing till Friday, was powerful heavy will ere another season is passed, have and the plurality is estimated at noc less and piercing cold. Again,” supposed by himself and others than 6,000. expensive mills on the large property re­ to have been written by the editor of the The county elections in Colorado indi­ —Sidney G. Haley, of Avon, has pur­ cently purchased by Andrews Bros. Go chased this fall some 2,000 sheep, driving P h o n o ., (referred to on first and second cate a republican victory. on, neighbors—we'll do our best to cheer The county elections in Kansas went away 400 last Tuesday. pages) he remarked that “ Moore was a you on; but we are sorry to see Phillips republican as usual. There was little in- —P. A. Sawyer is improving his dwell­ d------d fool to write such an article about terets. ing with a new covering of shingles a id sit calmly down and let enterprises slip his friends,” etc., etc. Now, we desire The Mississippi democratic state com­ internal improvements. quietly by, when a very little effort would to mildly assert, that a journalist, know­ mittee claim the election of the state ticket — Samuel Stanley, of Phillips, has two suffice. Next thing we know, some little by from 20,000 to 30,000. Three-forths White Chester pigs for sale. They arc ing the facts in the case, and after read­ fellow will extend the Sandy River Rail­ of the legislature is democrat. six weeks old and beauties. ing the article in question, who could not In Maryland the republicans have gain­ road beyond our limits, and then we might —The editor is now busily engaged in see that the article was written as a take­ ed unexpected victories in several demo accepting invitations to Thanksgiving din- as well all pack our things and steal away cratie counties. off on some summer resort—that so dull ners. Ail will will be attended to! between two days. Through the enter­ a man has no business with journalism, $^5F*The following note is from a sub­ — Strong ships more freight than Phil' prise of upper village gentlemen, the mill and ho should not give an appellation to scriber : lips; but Phillips receives more thin of Russell Bros, is bound to go a great Strong—in about the same proportion. another which so manifestly fits his own Editor of Phonograph.—In your ex­ ways toward “ filling the long-felt want,” tract from the new Gazetteer I find many —Our homeward trip from the West, condition. But this is not the question. and a few other contingencies,are sketched but only in the effort was this obtained. Neither of the editors of the Journal items of interest. From the time I first saw the Rangeley lake it has been a pleas­ i in the article on the first and second pages. The editor of the Phillips paper lias un­ ever thought for a moment that wo wrote ure to think of its surroundings and the — The Narrow Gauge, for the past der his control not only his Phonograph, the article; but it was simply a part of a whole-souled people who inhabit its shores. : month, did a larger amount of business but the telegraph and telephone of that contrived plan to prejudice the Manager In your recent extracts concerning the j than for the corresponding month last enterprising village. He ought to have township, one important matter is neglect­ year. against one whom he desired to place in the post office now, and he would he well ed, i.p., you fail to state when Mr. Range- —John Wilbur has sold his residence* equipped for his main business of supply­ an important position on the paper. The ley first went there. I have heard so on the east side, to Joshua Wells. The ing the news. —Portland Transcript. obstructions were plainly observable to a many stories from guides and others in re­ purchaser will take possession in the No, for our conscience wouldn’t even Yankee when there, and no Down East gard to that gentleman, that [ wish to spring. hear more and see it in print. Of all the permit of reading postal cards. country editor of horse sense could possi­ — The Farmington Herald located AU' pleasant places I have visited for vacation, j gusta, Gardiner and Pittston. in Hancock ggp*We are pained to see it reported bly feel it an honor to supplant anything the Rangeley leads them all. The scene­ | county. Go East, Young man, and study in the shape of an editor there engaged ry is beautiful, the fishing better than anv jgeography. that Mr. Z. T. Haines is now dangerous­ where else, the people kind and good, and upon the Journal, excepting, ot course, ly ill, at the residence of his sister, in the living better than I ever had at home. —The Baptist circle next week will Winthrop. Mr. Haines is well known in the Hon. Van Horn or his able assistant, Give us a good account of the old man i be held with Mrs. O. W. Russell, Thur®' day evening. The usual general invitS' Franklin county, and in Massachusetts, Mr. Bittenger. Rangeley. Let Sam Farmer, Geo. Soule, Uncle Clark, or some of the other well ! tion is given. as one of the editorial stall'of the Boston In his lecture in Hartford Monday eve­ known men of the region tell the interest­ —In mentioning the upper village steal11 Herald. ning, Beecher said mankind above the ing story. It will please many others, whistle, last week, we named the Libby ears arc divine, below the ears animals; beside. J. li. C. C. Bros, as owners. We should have said g@**Advanee sheets of “ The Ivames of adding that most newspapers are made up The information referred to was pub­ the Russell Bros. Maine,” by Geo. II. Stone, of Colorado from below the ears. The Times of that lished in the first number of the P hono. —A telephone for five dollars is a handy Springs, C<>1., are received. People wbo city remarks that lie shouldn’t cherish thing to have around the house. Out® delve in rocks, glacial periods, “ horse­ such hard feelings towards the newspapers and will be sent to friend C. I did not cost as much, but we would i ot for what they published about his affec­ backs" and extracts of Darwin, will find Io without it for five times the amount tionate calls on Mrs. Tilton, which seem­ gfjF“ The “ Life of Garfield,” price 81.- this their acme of delight. —“ Mamma,” said Ray-hoy, “ there1' * ed to be prompted from all around the 75, and the PHONO, one year for §2.50. ears. gentleman in the other room wants C ^jp^The letter by Mr. Blaine, regarding | see you,” an t added, as she followed h'* And how should Henry’s ears be classi­ Henry Lovett was hung at Whiteville, the position ot the United States on the I to the door—“ l's the gentleman,mamma • . fied, we wonder? N. C., Friday, for the murder of A. P. Panama Canal, is receiving universal com­ Williams. Both were colored. —Since our return home and annotin®' mendation. Even Harper’s Weekly speaks ^^•Thanksgiving Day, by proclama­ I ment of a permanent location here, Lieut. Commander A. H. Wright died ! have received many encouragements 1 in very complimentary terms of the doc­ tion of the President, will occur Thurs­ at Key West, Florida, Friday morning of I the way of new subscriptions, advertising’ ument and its author. day, N'ov. 24th. yellow fever. The Phillips JP homograph, a Live, Local Taper.-SI .50 per Year.

—The telephone as recently arranged, —At the recent meeting of Good Tem­ g^gP^The following touching epistle was from this office to the block, admits of a plars, the instituting officer signified his picked up on the street, and was written person’s conversing with another, even intention of resignin' in favor of anew to a person in Phillips—“ out in the busy "'hen standing twenty feet from the trans­ candidate, to be selected by the District ATTENTION! mitter. Lodge. It transpires that the present in world!” A v o n Me., Nov. 9, 1881. —A young man, with good common cumbent is a Special District Deputy, and therefore no resignation is necessary. The Dearest------. Your letter was received I Please remember that we can’t sell “Lower school education, can have an opportunity a few days ago, and if you only knew how here to learn the printers’ trade, and also District Deputy is another oilicer, and than the Lowest," but we can give there may be need for both. happy it made me, you would feel amply you as good trades in the telegraph business. Apply in person repaid for all the time and trouble (if any) —Trafton & Andrews, droviers, have or by letter. that you devoted in writing it. paid out this fall, from Strong to Range- — Mrs. Iljjtnry Bartlett has received a It had been such a long weary while ley, over •■>.‘51,000 in cash for beef cattle fine oil painting, of a noble looking horse, since I had heard anything from you that and lambs —1,630 sheep and lambs and owned and the picture painted by a broth­ I almost feared that you had forgotten the | 400 head of cattle. 800 sheep came from er in the West. The horse should he many vows you had uttered, and that out i nicely “ mounted.” Rangeley, as did also 150 head of cattle. in the midst of the busy world you hud I Mr. Andrews says Rangeley i< doing a big DRY GOODS •—Vet Thompson left for Augusta Tues­ forgot one faithful heart that heals for you business in raising stock for the market, alone. No need to ask me if I am true to day, where he will join Capt. Howard and and has superior facilities for stock rais­ —AND— ethers in the trip by Capt. 11. ’s steamer to you, for I am as true as the needle to the Florida, stopping at principle points en ing- pole, anil you cannot guess how hard it foute. Bon voyage, hoys ! —The. young ladies of Phillips recently- lias been for me for the past few days to organized a young ladies’ reading clu! , —A telegram received this morning, be so near you—almost within hearing of GROCERIES for their own pleasure and improvement. your voice, and yet be denied so much as announced that Mrs. Harriet Cummings — They discount the young men in matters the mother of Will and Fred -was not a passing glimpse of your dear face. as any firm in Phillips. of this kind. But we do wish the dears [Have a telephone—E d.] Come between expected to live through the day. She is would let the young men join them in visiting a sister in "Hyde Park, Mass. the hours of 12 and 1 at the “ old place,” their search for intellectual advancement, and then my old time confidence in you —Andrews Bros., the droviers, have to an equal number with the present iikmd- will be fully restored. Ever yours, * * * recently purchased some 2000 acres ot bership, if nothing more. But then, our timber land in Letter E. Plantation, of boys are so bashful! The columns of our exchanges attest Jas. E. Thompson, Esq., ami will erect —The depot will soon be connected by that the press of the State is awaking to '"'Us there for manufacture of lumber. telephone with this and the telegraph of­ the fact that Aroostook contains some­ -IN— —A brilliant wedding in high life has oc­ fice, and we hope to soon see the upper thing besides “ bears and snow drifts.” curred at Range ley, the Rev. Schoolmarm and and lower villages connected bv the Our young men have been so long taught officiating. It issaid the young man faint­ same cheap and efficient system. They that “ out west” was the goal toward which ed at the shrine, and the bride returned to save a heap of time and travel. If the their hopes and expectations should be di­ WOOLEN SHIRTS, her tattler’s house. No cake—the cake’s upper village is-reached, then comes the rected, that “a long pull, a strong pull I dough. steam mill, D. L. Dennison’s ami Ross’ and a pull all together" is required to keep t -j ■ ■ o tt 1 —Among the new advertisments, this saw mill. All interested are requested to the bone and muscle of our noble State at j L ctdieS § (jG llt S UllCl8rW6fll j "eek, please notice the change in Daven- [meet at this office Monday evening, at home, where it is so much needed and purt's announcement, whore they have a 8 o'clock, or send a proxy. Parties all where ample opportunity and reward "eat and new assortment of goods. Mr. along the line should he interested, and await its exercise.— Aroostook Republican. STATIONERY, Leavitt has a tenement* to rent; N. B. the line can be built before winter sets in. Beal desires to sell his interest in the grist Hunnewell’s point at the mouth of the '"'H; stray sheep are advertised, and —The officers of Phillips Lodge Good Kennebec, where Fort Popham is situat­ Confectionery, Fancy Goods three Probate notices are published. Templars, recently installed, are as fol­ ed, has been taken in hand by a stock lows : company; and another fashionable water­ —It is said that our esteemed friend and and Woolens. W. C. T —N. P. Noble. ing place is to he established on the coast fellow-citizen, Mr. James Butterfield, of R. II. S.-Ada Farmer. of Maine. The company is composed of this village, is one of the two who are L. 11. S.—Lucy Bean. gentlemen from Augusta, Bath, Boston Produce taken in exchange for goods. making painful endeavors to supply W. V. T .—Affie Sanborn. and New York, and the}' start with a cap­ me place on our Farmington contempo- Sec —lino Butterfield. ital of $65,000. farie’s reportorial force recently vacated A. S. — Fred Smith. M. H. DAVENPORT & Co., a,id so well filled by Mr. S. S. Williams. F. S.—Thalie Toothaker. I m po r t a n r to T r a v e l e r s .—S pecial I We dislike very much to see young Treas. — Flora Farmer. inducements are offered by the B u r l ­ Phillips Upper Village, Me. lyo "ion leaving here for distant places of em- Chap.—A. M. Greenwood. ing to n Ro u t e . It will pay you to read j ployment, although they usually take the Mar. —Will Davenport. their advertisement lo be found elsewhere i Estate of H. Hortie Teague, Paper for company. We hope the day is D. M.—Marcia Beal. in this issue. 40t28 n|->t far distant when our village will fur I. G.—Rosa Perry. Mrs. Garfield has taken up her re.-i- RANKLIN, ss: At a Court, of Probate ■Ush employment to those who prefer to (). G. — Milford French. holden at Farmington, within and for deuce in Cleveland. F sr,ay at home, and possibly to induce oth- P. W. C. T.—F. N. Carver. the County of Franklin, on the first Tuesday of November. A. I). 1881. ers to locate here. Josiah C. Heal, Guardian of H. Hortie —We welcome back to our books the Bo k n .—In Phillips, Nov 9, to the wife -Knowlton & McLeary, Farmington, Teague and Louisa V. H. Heal, minor child­ names of some who were subscribers at of Melville Hood, a daughter. ren of Lena V. Beal, and heirs of Darius 'ave published an excellent sermon, by the starting of the paper, but who for one Howard, late of Phillips, in said County, M a r r ie d . — III Strong, N ov. 6th, at u>v- A. W. Moore, on the death of Gar- reason and another, had withdrawn their deceased, having presented bis first account tin* residence of the bride's father, hv Eli of guardianship of the estate of said wards "eid; price, 12 ets. It was published by support. There is no other place equal j'j'Tiest of prominent citizens, in pamphlet Crosby, F-q., Samuel S. Huif and Miss for allowance: in its attractions for us, if we can but feel Lillian F. Vining, bqtli of Strong. Ordered, That said Guardian give no­ ,,r,U- There's a healthy lack of enter- our humble efforts are more than half ap­ tice to all persons interested, by causing a l,ri>e down there in journalism to make preciated. There are a dozen or more in copy of this order to be published three weeks ll»s thin [.successively in the Phillips Phonograph g necessary. the village, who are among our most Estate of Charles C. Bangs. ! published at Phillips, that they may appear Phillips Good Templars will hold wealthy citizens, and still refuse to help at a Probate Court to beheld at Far’mingl on, Public RANKLIN, ss: At a Court of Probate hold- j in said County, on the first Tuesday of De­ meeting, at Lambert Hall, next sustain the paper. We have a place for F en at Farmington, within and for the cember next, at ten o! the clock in the fore­ 1 u<\sd;iy evening to open at 7.150 o’clock. the name of each. The support that a County of Franklin, on the first Tuesday of November, A. D. 1881. noon, and show cause, if any they have Hie exercises will consist of an essay, by local paper might feel entitled to, in the why the same should not be allowed. Sarah J. Bairns, widow of Charles C. Bangs, j SAM'L BELCH Bit. Awlgc. a brother, on Good Templarism : singing way of subscriptions, in a thriving com­ late of Phillips, in said County, deceased, Attest, J. G. BROWN, Register. 8:10 y-dnets, quartettes and solos; selectread- munity like this, with prompt payments having presented her petition for an allow­ ance out of the personal estate of which he | ’no*; general remarks, ami a social hour is all that is necessary to make the paper died possessed. Estate of Samuel G. Stone. or the young folks. Admission free, and blossom with as many leaves as a rose, It w as ordered, That said widow j t i r a NKLIN,ss: AtaCuurt of Probate hold- " goiul time is anticipated. Remember it each leaf vicing with the other to be re(a)d give notice to all persons interested, by £ en at Farmington, within and for the to be held at Lambert hall. causing a copy of this order to be published j county of Franklin, on the first Tuesusy first. three weeks siiccrawivalv successively In in the V Phillips liillii.cl November, A. I). 18S1. A letter from Red Wing, Minn., an- Phonograph, published at Phillips, that they Elias Field, Administrator of the Estate Uonimes the death, Oct. 81st, of Mrs. may appear at a Probate Court to be held at of Samuel G. Stone, late of Avon, in said 6£j§**The following Madrid items were Farmington, in said county, on the first Tues­ County, deceased, having presented his sec­ tbursa, wife of Timothy l’erkins, form- day of December next, at ten of the clock in to late for their proper position on the 8th ond account of administration of the estate !'vv of Phillips. Mr. Perkins formerly the forenoon, and show cause, if any they of said deceased for allowance; Also having 1Vcd where Joel Wilbur now resides, and have, why the same should not be allowed. presented his private account against ssiil page : SAM’L BELCHER, Juriye. Planted the handsome shade trees along estate for settlement: Jacob Withatn and sons, and B. C Pow­ A ttest, J. G. Br o w n , Register. 3tl0 Ordered, That said Administrator give lune. With many others of the family, ers, are preparing for logging operations notice to all persons interested, by causing 'ey have long resided in the West. N. this winter. • a copy of this order to be published three • Beal, E>q., and family visited them on MILL for SALE. weeks successively in the Phillips Phono­ Charley Sprague has bought the shop will sell at a good bargain if applieij/for graph, published at Phillips, that, they may 'eir their recent trip to the West. Mrs. formerly occupied by James Morrison, I soon, one undivided half of ttie Urour A- appear at. a Probate Court to lie held at 1-rkins was then in her usual health. Jr., as a law office. Grist Mill at Phillips village, together with Farmington, in said County, on the firs^ l*r "ge is not known, but probably the water power. The mill is in good renair Tuesday of December next,at ten of t hee-lock . Our winter school, I understand, is to and is one of the best-paying custom mills in in the forenoon, and show cause, if any they venty years or more. be taught by Charley Smart, the State. The water power is ample for the have, why the same should not be allowed. . ~~ Read it to our neighbor : While, writ- i Scott Bodkins has been sawing white mill and a large quantity of other machinery. SAM’L BELCHER. .L/.k/i For further information inquire of or ad­ Attest: J. O. Brown, J'cgixtrr. 3j,ip "g-uip the news and things, the editor of birch and poplar into spool wood and salt- dress, N. B. BEAL. c Phono, has Ihe clicking of the tele- boxes, which gives the farmers a chance Phillips, Nov. 7.1881. 3ml0* to get rid of their surplus timber. Suc­ NOTICE. ^"ph in one ear and the telephone in the AME into the inolosure of the subscribers, . Per, while the key of the electric wire cess attend his efforts. Lewis Rowe, the lS ill 1.: . J C two weather sheep, marked,“ W. B.” The,' S( elbow. He chats with Portland, taxidermist has a magnificient caribou’s owner can take them away by proving prop­ head and horns, which would pay anyone erty and paying charges. iit.10 telegraph news from the Lewiston SAMUEL STANLEY. n„;»nal ami our neighbor(?), and devotes to go a long distance to see. The horns S. H, PRATT. »h!St time to buzzing the offices are between four and five feet long and POSTERS!] the line for news. In fact he holds have fifteen prongs on each horn. F. Printed at the P honograph Office. tin .''^fining ’neath bis type-stained BRICK. Rf) n n n ° f the best Brick in Franklin Jinn, and the P hono, may now be said The Tourtillon (cloud) tunic is a late iJU|WVJU County for sale, which will lie "a " r"n’ ' n !'art, by electricity. Don't imported novelty or. evening full dress Tenement to Rent. sold as follows: Best facing Brick, $10 dpi- te,n;*ny “ exchange” now. Can get our toilets. It is of tulle or tarlatan, or T Phillips Upper Village. Applv to M. Chimney lots,‘$7.25, at ray v»* d in South Strong, 4tl0 ' G. H. Met LEAKY. "grains from Portland papers! gauzy stuffs. A I0tf D.C. LEAVITT. 8 The Thillips Phonograph, a Live, Local Paner-S1.5Q per Year.

Out-ohtown Items Weld. Elisha Jewett, who is ninety one (91) MRS. LYDI1 L PINKHiM, OFLYttR, SUSS., The Fall Schools in Weld Lower Vil­ years old sawed all his wood, dug all of lage closed last Friday evening, a term of his potatoes, and, last Sabbath was able Farm iugton. eight weeks, with a free exhibition in the to attend church all day. Tarbox Brothers’ evaporator bids fair Union tLurch. The Grammar School Abram Reed, of Madrid, was in town to be a success. They will use from 4,- was taught by Mr. F. L. Blanchard, last week. L. E. Crosby is soon to haul 000 to 5,000 bushels of apples this season. of Lewiston, a member of the Senior from Reed’s Mills, Madrid, a large amount Canning, evaporating, and shipping of ap­ Class in Bates College, and Editor in of lumber. ples to other countries, causes a good mar­ Chief of the Bates Student. The interest S. A. Lovejoy, of this place, who has ket for all that can be raised in this #art of the pupils is shown by tbe fact that in been unwell for a few' weeks past, is now of the country. It is said by good judges total regestry of forty-five the average able to attend to his business. attendance was forty, with only ten in­ that no apples in the world are so good William Ilackett has raised on half an stances of tardiness during the term. The for shipping as those raised in Franklin acre, one hundred bushels of onions, the and Oxford counties, of our own State. following pupils were not absent a single half-day during tbe term : Bertha But- past season. The talk about the Narrow Gauge, from George Keen is to haul quite an amount here to Kennebec, seems to have subsided, ! terfield, Miriam D. Carpenter, Bert Con- ant, George H. Holden, Ella M. Holt, of spruce lumber from the slope of Mt. but the feeling in regard to a new County Abram. paper is decidedly on the increase. Nettie Heath, Winnie E. Jones, Nettie E. Ladd, Grace A. Libby, Peter B. Merch­ Mr. Barker, of Salem, has moved to Mr. F. O. Stan'ey, one of the Normal ant, Fonzo McLaughlin, Ella F. Newell, the place known as the Battles place. School teachers, has resigned his position Linneus M. Newman, Harry A. Phillips, on account of his health, and with his wife, Mr. Ross, of Auburn, passed through Win. L. Phillips, Ernest Partin, Elmer E. this place last week after beef cattle. has left for the Wast. Payne, Tessa M. Payne, Dona E. Robert­ There is going to be a Teachers’Insti­ son, Harry B. Trask, Arthur Thompson, O. B. Goldsmith has been making quite tute here, the 25th and 26th of the pres­ John H. Welch, Clarence S. York extensive repairs on his buildings. L. ent month. State Sup. Luce will be pres­ The Primary School was taught by ent. Miss Gusta Davis, of Lewiston, a gradu­ S l r o n g ; . The Normal School takes a vacation ate of tbe Lewiston High School and LYDIA E. PINKHARfl’S until Nov. loth. Geo. Western State Normal School. The We hear the Daggett Bros, intend clos­ VEGETABLE COMPOUND. whole number registered was twenty-nine ing out their present business, next sea­ Juvenile Opera co mpany at Drummond son, and devote their attention to corn­ Is a Positive Cure Hall, Friday and Saturday evenings. and the average attendance twenty-two. The following pupils were not absent dur­ canning, etc. for nil tho«o Painful ©om plaints and Weakness** “ Magic Slipper” and “ Belles of Corne- uncommon to our best female population. ville.” ing the term : Alma J. Barrett, Clara E. The new firm, in Porter’s store, is now It will cure entirely the worst form of I'( rate Com­ The officers of Franklin R. A. Chapter Hodgdon, Mabel Ii. Ladd, Blanche Libby, doing business, and means a big business, plaints, nil ovarian troubles,Inflammation and Ileciw were installed last Friday evening, after Jennie M. Payne, Evonna Conant, Ivan apparently. Success to enterprise. tion, Falling an d D isplacem ents, and th e conW'C-I?i: which an oyster supper was served. Sanborn, Merton Small. Porter’s whistle now is sounded at seven Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to ft10 Change of Life. The public temperance meeting, Mon­ Mr. F. J. Austin, of the firm of Austin in the morning and at six o'clock at night. It will dissolve and expel tumors from the t'-tem8*® day evening, was a success. The address & Sanborn, is on his way home from the The cars took some 30,000 lbs. of wool an enrly stag e o f developm ent. Tito ten th nt y to co - was highly spoken of. Northwest where he has been hunting for from here Tuesday. cerous humors there is checked very speedily I yitsu?*- several weeks in Dakota and Montana. It removes faintness, flatulency, dertroysall cravtag The Herald announces itselt conserva­ He writes to a friend that he has killed It is thought a meat market would do for stimulants, and.relieves weakness of the f ton M 1- tive in politics. [Don’t try to be neu­ well here. about thirty buffaloes. In one day, with It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous rrostrr.l tral.—E d.] General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and In*** his Winchester rifle, he killed thirteen and Madrid. “Town and Vicinity?"—“ Thursday, is gestion. j , only fired fourteen shots. The same day the aniversary of Luther’s (Martin?) Mr. Hodgkins is making quite extensive That feeling of ben ring down, causing pain, wr:?- his son Harry, about sixteen years old, birth.” repairs on his mill; is putting in machin­ and backache, is always permanently cured 1 y it3 v ,' I t w ill a t a ll tim es an d u n d e r all circuit.r ta n e ts a c t*■ Who would think “ye local” should be killed three. Evidently the buffaloes are ery for the manufacture of pail bail han­ not yet exterminated. h arm ony w ith th e law s th a t g o vern th e fet .r.'.o ir®"” " interested in large families? Borcines, dles, with a capacity for 40,000 a day. For the euro of Kidney Complaints of eitl.ir t-x w too ’. The Dummer Brother are clapboarding Miss Cora Beedy, who has been visiting C om pound is u nsurpassed. , Officers of the Good Templars lodge their canning establishment so that the friends in Madrid and Phillips, soon re­ EYi.HA F,. PIXKIIAM'S VEGETABLE -o1' will be installed next Monday evening. labellers and can makers can work dur­ turns to Augusta to work in the office of POBXOis prepared at 833 and S3f> V.V.t*- Avon- • ing cold weather. Lynn, Mass. Dries gl. Six b o lile sfo r #">. S t by o'®- Leighton & Harvey drove 1964 sheep Mayor Vickery. through here Monday. There is much work doing on buildings in the form of pills, also in the form of lo?.i: The people of Madrid village are talk­ receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. INn'-b•' here, and any man who can dr.ve a nail Mrs. E. T. Wellman lias severely ing quite strongly of building anew meet­ freely answers all letters of inquiry. Send for pain.3* sprained her ankle. can do so for good wages. ing house, a want much needed. !»t. Address as above. Mention this I ‘nprr. B. Rangeley. Avon. No fam ily should >>e w ith o u t LYD7A i’. I T The pastor of the Congregational church Last Wednesday evening the following LIVF.R PILLS. They cure const:;>atU>:\, b~ Rev. Henry Farrar, closed his labors here One of the Butler boys—the White one [ and torpidity of the liver. 25 c e r t s ] ; r 1 '. officers of the Oquossoc Lodge, No. 331, last Sabbath. —will teach school at North Freeman. Jttl&~ Sold by al! IIrtr;rr:s'.rt. I. O. of G. T., were installed for the next quarter by the Lodge Deputy, B. M. Dar­ W. M. Holden is building a house on Alfred Morton has bought the William ling :— the Temple road. Churceill farm, near Mt. Blue. W. C. T.—L. A. Smith. Salem. Snow fences are being erected along R. H. S.—Mrs. Dorcas Nile. Farmers are busy in preparing for win­ the fine of the railroad. THE GREAT CUflEi L. H. S.—Miss Vora Hoar. ter. W. S. Heath has commenced to saw The Soule district school is being taught FOB, W. V. T.—Miss Bertha Smith. out the frame for 1). Sedgeley’s barn that by Miss A Hie Beal. Sec.—Miss Jennie Haley. he has the contract to build next spring. RHEUMATISM F. S.—Mrs. Hattie Snowman. Parties have been here recently in view In General. As it is for all diseases of the K! DNETS i Treas.—Mrs. John Lowell. of putting in machinery for the manufac­ R. L. Richardson, of Jay Bridge, is I LIVER AND BOWELS. f Chap.—Geo. Haley. ture of birch lumber, and it is a decided building a store two stories high, with hall Mar.—Melvin Tibbitts. It cleanses the system of the acrid P^Lji fact, by good judges,that no place exceeds overhead. Other building and reparing1 D. M.—Miss Alice Huntoon. that causes the dreadful suffering v ^ it in the State in quantity and quality of is going oil. The steam mill lias been en-: only the victims of Bheumatism can r-a A. S.—Miss Lillia Hoar. lumber and the distance from a railroad larged and employs 45 men. I. G.—Miss Nell Huntoon. station. THOUSANDS OF CASES O. G.—Eugene Smith. Someone in Chesterville keeps a scrap­ o f th e w orst form3 of this terrible t,is ;j#* P. W. C. T.—Rev. R. A. Proctor. S. II. Hinds & Son are sawing some book, of selected items of interest to the have been quickly relieved, in a sh ort Our lodge is booming. Over a hundred nice shingles, and we understand have a town, selected from the various papers. PERFF.CTLY CURED- members, and still tney come. contract for all or a portion of the lumber A good idea for any town. for the corn factory, at Strong. Mr. Chandler Ross left here Monday John Crowell, a pensioner of Temple Mr. Robert McKeen, who moved here for Florida, where we understand he is has recently received $1,300 “ back-pay.” has had wonderful success, and an irrl1 going to stop this winter. He is going from Lewiston, a short time ago, is very He puts a part ol it into a new dwelling. sale in every part of the Country. la feeble, and doubts are entertained of a dredsi of cases it has cured whero all ^ p with Capt. C. W. Howard, on his new permanent recovery. The county is .getting famous in fruit failed. Iti3 mild, but efficient, CFl* • steamer. raising, and extensive canning and evap­ ! > S ITS ACTION, but harmless in all ca*, Nothing but rain for the last week or Edmund Oliver sold a few days since, orating operations are going on. * i t','-It cleanses, Strengthens and B*v0p0d/' a green colt, that is without any handling, ' T.Ife to all the im portant organs of tho ,ore>4 two, and mud—well let them talk; but if The late Hon. W. T. Johnson, of Au­ 1 T h e n a tu r a l a c tio n o f th e K id n e y s is r* 3 . pi- for the sum of $225, and has some good ! The Liver is cleansed of all disease, a]1 pi? you want to see mud, go from Rangeley ones left. gusta, lived in Ins youth, at Farmington to Phillips and back. Falls. ° | B o w els m o v e f re e ly a n d h e a lth f u lly . * D. L. Dennison passed through here a ! way the worst diseases are eradicated The district schools close this week, ‘l thesystem. t few days since with a drove of splendid As i t h a s b e e n p ro v e d b y th o u sa n d s * Thursday, and the Foster sisters leave for sheep. ponneu deputy warden at the Statt home Friday. I understand they are ex­ on. cellent teachers. B o r n .— In Salem, Oct. 27th, to the wife of N. P. Harris, a son. Wests’ Mills has a good lodge of We arrived home Friday evening, not Templars—and a cider mill. is the most effectual rem edy for cleans forgetting the good time we had at Phillips Mrs. L. J. Mayo is repairing her store system of all morbid secretions. It 8 Potatoes are not yet all out t u se d in e v e ry h o u se h o ld a s a and the Lodge. with a coat of shingles. M. T. C. ground, at Bean’s Corner. SPRING MEDICIW||^>' Mr. E. A. Rogers and family arrived , Always cures BIU0USN333. ' “ f' ^c?1 A change of Postmaster is contem home last Sunday, from their vacation. Marshall Lander, recently burned out, TION, PILK3 and all FEMALE has moved to Dead River. at East Wilton. Is p u t u p in P r y Y c g e tn b lc F o r m , liciPa H ec to r . one package of which makes 0quarts ■ It is rumored that Mr. Blanchard, of Our mails now arrive at 11.30 and de­ ■ YrtjVe bu8iness prosperity is re Also in Liquid Form, very Coneentx- pW part at 7 a. m. in Wilton. the convenience of there who cannot rc ., . Boston, has purchased Capt. Howard’s p are it. It acts with equal efficiency m e " it.fl steamer “ Molly,” and, if true, will prob- Mrs. R. L. Heath is still very feeble. GETET IT OF VOURYOUR DRUGGIST. URB-rR ,J 0!i'b, ably give even better facilities than here­ West Freeman. •T. I I . Thom pson, WELLS, R IC H A R D S O N A <'•'>;•;1 T0 tofore. (Will send th" dry tc-r-->abM J. P. Longley, of Madison Bridge, and A valuable cow belonging to J. R. and E. Weeeler, of this place, have been Toothaker, died last week. holding series of meetings here for the Attorney at Law, Andrews has recently driven over 500 past week. Much interest was manifest­ sheep from here. ed. Mtt KING FIELD, ME. Sup.^^Illustrated Catalogue t iss BEATTY. Washington, N-J- The Phillips Phonograph, a Live, Local Taper.— S I.50 per Year. 9

------Miscellany. SKINNY MEN. | If it’s Liver Trouble, Constipation, Dyspep-I The Gazetteer of Maine. |sia, Piles, Night Sweats, Decline, Consump- jtion, Palpitation, “Wells’ Health Renewer" Twill cure you. If lacking flesh, vital, brain or The following extracts, of local inter­ [nerve force, use “Wells’ Health Renewer,” greatest remedy on earth for Impotence. est, are from the above valuable work, B. Leanness. Sexual Debility. Absolute cure for B. Russell, publisher, Boston: WELD is situated in the south-western part of Franklin County, having as bound­ A TRUE TONIC aries, Phillips, and Number Six on the north, Avon and Temple on the east, Car­ A PERFECT STRENGTHENED?.A SURE REVIVES thage and Perkins Plantation on the south. I R O N B I T T E R S are highly recommended for e!1 diseases rc The area is 48 square miles. The town quiring a certain and efficient to n i c ; especially Indigestion, L'yrpeptf.’-t, I.r is almost surrounded by mountains, either millent l b within its limits, or just outside. There the blood, is a group of three at the north-east cor­ ifS&tf&uku&uxJh -x------like Nervous Debility and 'Weakness of the Gen- as Tostl ner, of which the highest is Black Moun­ srativo Functions. Clears Cloudy Urine, stops I r o n Jt‘ re p u r a Lie a L..^ u i n -. u w — ------tain. In the eastern part are Centre and losses rr.d escapes in same. Tho great Re­ h e a d a c h e . Sold by all druggists. Write for the A B C Book, 32 pp. of liable Tonic for General Debility or Special Hedgehog hills, with other high hills in Weakness. A complete Rejuvenate r for Ex-l useful and amusing reading— sent free. iaustion, Faintness. Excesses, Advancing BROW N CHEMICAL CO., Baltimore, Hid. the southern and western portion. Just •age, Ague, Chills, Female Weakness, &c. MS fa t druggists, or by express, prepaid, on over the eastern border are Blue Moun­ |receiptcf 81.25. E, S. WELLS, Jersey City, N. J. tain and Little Blue, the former 2,804 feet tto lp, in height. In the broad plain-like valley if. forming the middle portion of the town is M o n Webb’s Pond, whose outlet is Webb’s Ri ver, emptying into the Androscoggin at Hixfield village. The scenery of the town, hv reason of these features, is very beau­ tiful and noble. The rock is principally gneissic. The soil, in general, is a grav­ Maine Central R.R. T elly loam. In the forests thrive the usual 15c. boA.es clears out Rats, Slice, Roaches! variety of trees native to the middle re­ -f lies, Ants, Mosquitoes, Bed-Bugs Insects! Commencing Monday, June ‘Skunk, Weasel, Crows, Gophers, Chipmunks. I gion of Maine. Corn, potatoes, wheat 27, 1881. and oats are all cultivated profitably, and sXiTFMgf I ii i PASSENGER TRAINS will leave FARM­ apple orchards are numerous and prolific. INGTON for PORTLAND and BOSTON.and The town has two village s, Weld Upper for LEWISTON, BRUNSWICK and BATH, at 8.50 A. M. Village, near the head of the pond, and A MIXED TRAIN leaves FARMINGTON for LEWISTON Lower Station at 3.35 P. "M.. Weld Lower Village, about two miles dis­ excepting Saturdays. Passengers taking this tant nearer the foot—both on the eastern traiu can leave Lewiston at 11.20 P. M. (eve?) night), connecting at Brunswick with Night- side. t Both partake of the general beauty , Pullman Trains for Bangor and Boston. PASSENGER TRAIN from PORTLAND °i the town. In these places are a spool- arrives at FARMINGTON at 5.05 P. M. factory, employing about 25 hands, and ■ k Freight Train arrives at 1.52. three box-mills, with 25 hands most of the | PAYSON TUCKER, Sup’t. year. Both steam and water-power are ; Portland, June 27th, 1881. Iy42* used. Other manufactures are fork and shovel-handles,butter-tubs, harnesses, tin-1 Farm for Sale! ware, etc. The villages are about 1G miles i &tarr%Bladder Situated in Weld, 2 miles from Weld cor­ j ner; cuts 40 tons of bay; has plenty of easy west of Farmington, and are connected by | 'Chapin’s Buchu-I’aiba.— A quick, complete! tillage; 20 acres easily fitted for mowing stage with the Maine Central Railroad at |eure for Catarrh of the Bladder, Urinary! machine. Plenty of excellent pasture, good Wilton, about 12 miles distant from the |Kidney and Bladder Diseases, in malo or* sugar lot, good fruit, plenty of muck, wat­ Jfemale, Paralysis, Diabctes.Gravel, Difficulty 1 er at house and barn from never failing lower village. Sof bolding or passing Urine, Gleet, Briekj | spring. Buildings in good repair. Barn . Weld was settled about 1800. Nathan- j pDust, Gonorrhoea, Inaction, Turbid Urine,I 38x4u feet, with basement story for keeping lel Kittredge, Cabel Holt, James Hough- lilky and other deposits. Stricture, Stinging,? stock in winter. Farm will pay more than ton, Abel Holt, Joseph and Abel Russell marring, Irritation, Inflammation, "Whites,! $500,00 this year: will sell for $1,000. Terms j npuro or Diseased Discharges, Bains in the easy. Farm contains 140 acres. were of the first settlers. The township IjBaek and Thighs, Dragging Down, Dripping! iVeld.Oct. 18. 4t7* J. K HOLMAN. was surveyed by Samuel Titcomb, for the fUlcers, Tumors, <£c. $1, at druggis s, hyex-J State. It was lotted by Philip Bullen in press, prepaid, $1.25. 5 Chapin’s Injection F leur is to be useda 1"97. Jonathan Philips, of Boston, was vith Buchu-paiba, in cases of Impure ora Sandy River R. R. the purchaser from the State. Jacob Ab­ diseased Discharges. With Syringe, $1, at? Druggists, sent by express, prepaid, for Sl.25.fi On and after Monday,October 17,1881,trains bott and Benjamin Weld, in 1815, pur­ fSoth Dy express, prepaid, on receipt of $2.25.1 chased Mr. Philip's unsold lands in Maine will be run as follows: E. S. WELLS,------■rre.VTMSaS jersey City, N.J 1 Leave Phillips at 6.30 A M and 1.30 P M I if afid commenced the sale to settlers. Mr. Strong 7.05 “ “ 2.15 “ NE'JRALG:A.HeA0ACHE, jj Abbott also engaged in the settlement of Returning— Rheumatism. Colds. | other towns, and procured the location of Leave Farmington at 0.00 A M and 5:20 P M ScRF.THnoAi-.Couc.H the Coos road, by the State. It ran from SlilgW Strong at 10.00 “ '* 6.15 “ Crakss, Dysentery, | Arriving in Phillips at 6:50. Of ARRHcea,SeaSiCK-| hd'esterville through Wilton,Carthage and 2-® ^as3 ' 3-37* JOEL WILBUR, Supt. Weld, passing the notch by Mount Metal- 3 ^ - P **c c*~r ”^0 . ress.Sruises, Sprains, | lei thence through Byron and East Ando- /C uts.Chilb!ains.5c. ^ Ver to New Hampshire. Mr. Weld was P A T E N Y S Boston; Mr. Abbott was from Wilton, •o 2 CD ^ ’’s 3 n GEO. E. LEMON, Aft’y at Law, A- H., but removed to Brunswick, Me., —. ^ 3 O C ^ C = ta ^ O » o ° WASHINGTON, D. C. where he died in 1820, aged seventy-four S' O {jc oa ® 2 O - • 3 33 n % S 2S Send sketch or model for preliminary ex­ years. He was succeeded in the business m? c o amination and opinion as to patentability, 7* y ~ o 2. H for which NO CHARGE is made. If report­ -settling bis lands by his son, Jacob Ab­ R _.rrrf jR “ = 5"oR,0-^a,2^ ed patentable, no charge forservices unless bott, who died in Farmington in 1847, at v i^a q ‘5 S'S' p^S3'g-?w|gs-1 o successful. Send for Pamphlet of Instruc­ *he age of seventy. Weld is the birthplace 2v,i-rt-I SO ' o 1oi ®— _ ® O tions. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. °f the publisher of this work, who still n la2S.|*3'5,fc ||p ® Sold by a!l Wledlcirao Dealers cherishes a warm regardfor the childhood's f = 5 o S ® S THE h°me, shown by bis kindly interest in all ' S'|£.2-L? ^ O r ,j c: J9" 32 Om i Ia? ’ N _ and Country Stores. >jo 2 — p P - “ 6-2.85 6® mat relates to the town. w Y 53’3-s. o m STAND a r d a3, si 2!, 3~ ®5 _"3 5 s e! The town was incorporated in 1816, and s a _' pe 3 B^oSj^g’^ g 3 « " rV Ofll And their HEIRS 3 2 c,ti^4 "• £ n -o U L U l“ nO should all send for he rived its name from Mr. Weld, one of : ^ o C§L=. SILK sample copv of that wonderful paper. THE hj (D rt- Sa § "is.3; 'he owners It had previously been known OF THE WORLD AND SOLDIER.published at Wash­ as Webb’s Pond Plantation. ington, D. C. It contains Stories of theWar, Camp Life, Scenes from the Battlefield, and Dr. L. Perkins was one of the most es- Town Business. WORLD. a thousand things of interest to our coun­ eemed of the former citizens. The first The Selectmen of Pliillips will be in session try’s defenders, Tt contains all the La-'s Teaching appears to have been by Rev. at the Law Office of James Morrison, Jr., on and I istructions relatin'? to Pensions and •'°>nuel Jackson of Greene, in 1804; and Saturday afternoon, of each week, for the L. A. DASCOMB, Bounty for Soldiers and their heirs. Eight transaction of town business. pages, forty colunms. weekly. $1 a year. ? baptist church was constituted in 1800. JAMES MORRISON, Jit., Sample free. Address “World and Soldier,” . -there are now a Congregational church, T. B. HUNTER, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Box 588, Washington, D. C. 2t9 29 D. C. LEAVITT. aJi(l one occupied by both the Free Bap- PHILLIPS, MAINE. |)8t and Methodists. Weld has eleven pub- Office and Residence with C. C. Bangs. NOTICE. lc schoolhouses, valued with other school STRAY LAMB. 3m42* ______HERE will be no weaving satinet, fulling Property at $4 000. The valuation in 1870 T or coloring done afrer Nov. 10, this fall. $245,2G0. In 1880 it was 8231,011. BUCK lamb, in the subserfper’s enclos­ (rir7f) a wee k . $12 a day at home easily No blanketing after Nov. 20. Also I have a A ure, can be had by the ow-ner, by proving I /j made. Costly outfit free. Address good stock of home-made satinet for sale at he population in 1870 was 1,130. In 18- property and paying charges. 3f8 lj'23* Truk& Co ., Portland, Me. the mill. 3t8* D. T. LIBBY. was 1,040. JULIUS BLANCHARD. lO The [Phillips Phonograph, a Tive, Local Parer.—$1.50 per Year.

Sporting Matters. of view, the only error was in the desire TO GRATIFY HiS WIF to justify an action of which lie should have been proud. We must make allow­ An Interesting Story—A Hopeless Case Cured The Complete Angler. A Good Reason for Happiness. LIXIR ance for the difference in Walton’s views OF of domestic authority; but we feel that Statement of Mr. Washington Monroe, of There are a few familiar books in which Catskill, Green County, New York. his prejudice disqualifies him from fairly a happy combination of circumstances LIFE ROOT! estimating a character of great intrinsic “ For many years I had suffered from a has provided ns with a true country idyl, THE BANNER force. A portrait of Donne cannot be ad­ complaint which the physicians called fresh and racy from the soil, not concisely equately brought within the lines accepted Gravel. I had employed some of the constructed by the most skilful artistic by the writer of orthodox and edifying most noted doctors without obtaining any REMEDY! hand. Two of them have a kind of ac­ permanent relief, and for a longtime my tracts.— The Cornhill Magazine knowledged pre-eminence in their own case was regraded as hopeless. All who A Positive Cure for Kidnev knew the circumstances said I must die. department. The man is not to be envied The Ballonists’ Adventures. Finally my wife induced me to try a hot & Liver Com paints and a ll who has not in his boyhood fallen in love tie of Dr. Kennedy’s ‘Favorite Remedy’ Diseases arising therefrom, with Izaak Walton and White, of Sel- Professor King the aeronaut returned which she had somewhere heard of or such as borne. The boy, indeed, is happily un­ seen advertised. Without the slighest home safely. The story he tells of adven­ faith in it, but solely to gratify her, I bo’t DROPSY, GRAVEL, DIABETES, INFLAM­ troubled as to the true source of the ture by land and water would fill volumes. MATION OF THE BLADDER. BRICK a bottle of a druggist in our village. I DUST DEPOSIT, RHEUMATISM, charm. He pores over the “ Compleat They were nineteen hours in the air. used that and two or three bottles more, DYSPEPSIA, FEMALE COM­ Angler” with the inpression that he will Their highest altitude was 9,000 feet. and—to make a long story short—I am PLAINTS. & ALL DISEASES now as healthy a man as there is in the OF THE URINARY gam some hints for beguiling, if not the Friday afternoon, two weeks ago, at two country. ORGANS. wily carp, who is accounted the water-fox o’clock, they landed in the inueh-talked- Since then I have recommended ‘Fa­ A Druggist has Sold over 1,000 Bottles- at least the innocent roach, who “ is ac­ ofswamponthe Flambeau river. They vorite Remedy’ to others whom I knew R o c k l a n d , Me ., April 25. 1881. counted the water-sheep for his simplicity knew no more where the}' were than if to have suffered from Kidney and Liver I have sold over one thousand bottles of complaints; and 1 assure the public that Elixir of Life Root, and have never found a of foolishness.” His mouth waters as he they had landed in the wildest region of ease where it failed to give satisfaction. the ‘Favorite Remedy’ has done its work WM. H. KITTRIDGE. reads the directions tor converting the undiscovered Africa. One sandwich was with a similar completeness in every sin Nearly Dead and One Bottle Cured Him pike—that compound of mud and needles all that was left when they touched ground. g!e instance, and I trust some other sick and discouraged mortal may hear of it W e s t f ie l d , Mass.. March 28,1881. into “ a dish of meat too good tor any but Human habitation was nowhere in sight. J W. Kittkkdge, Agent Elixir of Life Boot: and try the ‘Favorite Remedy’ as 1 did.4t9 Dear SirH aving suffered intensely for anglers or very honest men”—a trans­ Desolation was everywhere. The roar­ four years with disease of the Kidneys, after formation which, if authentic, is little less having during that time tried various medi­ ing rapid river they at first took for the cines without obtaining relief, l wasinduced than miraculous. He does not ask what, Mississippi. No boats, no signs to show to try a bottle of youi ELIXIR OF LIFE ROOT, and it affords me pleasure to say that is the secret of the charm of the book that human beings had ever been there, one bottle of it completely cured me. I rec- even for those to whom fishing is an commend it as the only valuable and certain only intensified their dreadful feeling of cure for kidney troubles I have ever seen- abomination—a charm which induced even loneliness. Once-landed, their adventures l would add that before taking your medi­ cine I had become so weak that I was about the archcockney, Dr. Johnson, in spite of began in earnest. From Friday until to give up work. Hoping that others who famous definition of angling, to prompt Tuesday their experience was one of con­ have suffered like myself may be so fortun­ ate as to try your valuable medicine. the republication of this angler’s bible. tinuous tramping about or floating over Truly yours, T. F. McMAIN. It is only as he grows older, and has plod­ As a SPRING TONIC and APPETIZER lT lakes on rude rafts and finding themselves HAS NO EQUAL. ded through other sporting literature, that perpetually walled in: There seemed to One Dollar a Bottle. he can at all explain why the old gentle­ be no outlet. A porcupine which they man’s gossip is so fascinating. Walton, killed was their diet for five days. On Elixir of Life Root Comp’y. undoubtedly, is everywhere charming for the fifth day, Tuesday, they came to an J. W. K ITT HEDGE, Agent*. his pure, simple English, and the unosten­ ly.37 ROCKLAND, MAINE. old overgrown trail. Following it for i'dSf'ALL DRUGGISTS SELL 1T«£5| tatious vein of natural piety which every­ hours they finally heard the tinkling of a An Only Daughter Cured of where lies just beneath the surface of his cowbell. They left the road and went in SWINE writing. Now and then, however, in read­ the opposite direction whence it came, Consumption. ing the “ Lives,” we cannot quite avoid a and finally found themselves again at the When death was hourly expected, all sense that this excellent tradesman has river. The cow was on the other slide. PLASTERS remedies having failed, and Dr. H. James just a touch of the unctuous about him. was-experimenting with the uinny herbs The sight of a rude cabin cheered them. HAVE BEEN IMITATED, He is given—it is a fault from which ha- of Calcutta, he accidently made a prepar­ Two men in a boat were finally sighted And their excellent reputation in­ ation which cured his only child of CON­ giographers can scarcely be free—to using and rowed them across. Here they found jured by worthless imitations. The SUMPTION. His child is now in this the rose-color a little too freely. He holds their Moses in the person of Bruno Vin- Public are cautioned against buy­ country, and enjoying the best of health- toward liis heroes the relation of a senti­ ette, a wealthy backwoodsman, farmer ing Plasters having similar sound­ He has proved to the world that CON­ mental churchwarden to a revered parish SUMPTION can he positively and per­ and logger, who, with ten men, accom­ ing names. See that the word parson. We fancy that the eyes of the manently cured. The doctor now gives panied them up the river in a batteau to CA-P C LN-E is correctly spelled. this recipe free, only asking two three- preacher would turn instinctively to Wal­ the place where their balloon was. Ex­ cent stamps to pay expenses. This herb ton’s seat when he wished to catch an ad­ cept a few punctures from trees and some also cures Night Sweats, Nausea at the Benson’s Capcine Stomach, and will break up a fresli cold miring glance from an upturned face, and rents in the netting it was uninjured. It to assure himself that he was touching the in twenty-four hours. Address Crad­ was taken apart and put in the basket and Porous Plasters dock & Co., 1032 Race St. Philadelphia, “ sacred fount of sympathetic tears.” We the whole raised from the ground and naming this paper. 4t9 Are the only improvement ever i imagine Walton lingering near the porch placed on poles and left there. The net­ made in Plasters. to submit a deferensial compliment as to ting was hung upon ropes reaching from One is worth more than a dozen the “florid and seraphical” discourse to tree to tree far above ground. There of any other kind. PIANOS, ORGANS, which he has been listening, and scarcely they will be left till mid-winter, when —AND— raising his glance above the clerical shoe- Will positively cure where other snow and ice will enable them to be got­ remedies will not even relieve. buckles. A portrait taken from this point ten away. It was 75 miles from the bal­ of view is apt to be rather unsatisfactory. Price 25 cents. loon to Chippewa Falls and civilization, Beware of cheap Plasters made Yet, in describing the “ sweet humility” which the travelers reached through the Instruments of standard makes, only. Or­ of a George Herbert or of the saintly Mr. with lead poisons. ders tilled for any book or Musical Publica­ aid of Vinette, as previously announced. tion, at lowest terms. ■Correspondence so­ Earrer, the tone is at least in keeping, and SEABURY & JOHNSON, licited. 21a. IE'. A L la l^ o tt, Manufacturing Chemists, New York. is consistent even with an occasional gleam Mr. Michael McCann, a well-known and 6m*43 Wilton, Me. popular manufacturer, of Syracuse, N. Y., T SUR E It EM EDY AT LAST. Price SSets. of humor, as in the account of poor Hook­ writes: “ I felt generally debilitated and ft M EAD’S Medicated CORN and BUNION PLASTER. S a m .’ er, tending sheep and rocking the cradle my health failing me. I longed and prayed C-U-S-T-O-M under stringant feminine supremacy. It for an iron constitution, that I might be Knowlton Printing House, is less satisfactory when we ask Walton rid of the many annoyances of ill-health. Boot&Shoe Maker! But dyspepsia and urinary troubles, at­ FARMINGTON, MAINE. to throw some light upon the curiously — REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.— tended by nervous prostration, had gotten Knowlton & McLeary, Propr’s. enigmatic character of Donne, with its hold of me, and I felt my time had come. Rubbers, Rubber Bool strange element of morbid gloom and mas­ Nothing seemed to give me any permanent KSfAll kinds of tine Book and Job Print­ 3*30 S. A. BLANCHARD, Phillips, Me relief. Finally I happned to see an adver­ culine passion and subtle and intense in­ ing executed with dispatch. In fact, any­ tisement of Brown's Iron Bitters. ‘Bless thing from a Card to a Mammoth Poster.— J . El. X j iL 30 30 , tellect. Donne married the woman he me. says I, ‘that’s just the medicine for Orders by mail promptly attended to. ly+Xl loved in spite of her father and to the in­ me precisely.’ And so it was. By the Millwright and Machinist, 3 3 . t . r*ivnK :En, jury of his own fortunes. “ His marriage, powers of old Ireland, it has cured me of GARDINER. - - - MAINE, all my troubles and given me a constitu­ Phillips, - - Maine. however,” observes the biographer, “ was GENT for “Burnham’s” Standard Tur­ tion of iron.” bine Waterwheel, also a large lot of the remarkable error of his life; an error, Watchmaker and Jeweler! Aand wheels, geers, &c., for sale lower than and d ealer in which, though he had a wit able and very Among other fashionable pendant orna­ the lowest. Flour and gristmills a special' ments for rooms are quaint, odd shaped W atches cfc Cloclts. Send for prices before purchasing. 28^. apt to maintain paradoxes, yet he was very- little baskets of split bamboo—Japanese, {^“Repairing Fine Watches a specialty n r«TTV s ORGANS!"Stops 5 set gold' far from justifying it.” From our point Over 25 years experience. Watch Cases pol­ SJ&N I I » en tongue reeds only $85. Ad' of course. ished without extra charge. 3-52* dress Daniel F. Beatty, Washington, N. J- 1 1 The Phillips Phonograph, a Live, Local Paper.—SI .50 per Year.

Is there costiveness? Is there vertigo or diz­ A Wonderful Success in Business. ziness when rising suddenly from a horizon­ Miscellany. tal position? Are the secretions Horn the kidneys scanty and highly colored with a A few years ago the Shaker Community of deposit after standing? Does foot! ferment Mount Lebanon, N. Y., met with a serious soon after eating, accompanied by flatulence | Wall papers are now brought out in loss by Are. Nearly all of their large work­ of a belching of gas from the stumacn? Is) shops were destroyed and one of their iarg imitation of tapestries, including the la- there frequent .palpitations of the heart? est dwellings as well, involving a loss of These various symptoms may not he present mous Gobelins, which are admirably imi­ nearly a million dollars. The shakers felt at one time, but they torment the sufferer very much distressed, for they had no insur­ in turn as the dreadful disease progresses. tated. ance. The fire had destroyed their large If the case he one of long standing there warehouses, together with their stock o f... ______li, attended, af- Over-dresses and all draperies are loop­ herbs, plants and roots, by the sale of which ! will be a dry, haekin they were enabledl'UJ *“to support *their hoii* largeinru-fl !j ter a time, by expec;expectoration. In very ad ed high, giving the panier effect around community. They felt then that their busi- j vanned stages the skin assumes a dirtv ness was gone from them. While the Broth- j brownish appearance.and the feet and hands the hips, and the rooster tail effect in the ers and Sisters were mourning over their j are covered by a cold sticky perspiration, great and serious loss and wondering how As the liver and kidneys become more and hack. . they were to be provided for in the future, ! more diseased rheumatic pains appear, and one of their Trustees, Benjamin Gates, en- the usual treatmeiif proves ent irely unavail Old Mr. Brown, seventy years old, says tered into an arrangement with a party in ing against this latter agonizing disorder. he could not live with any degree of com­ New York City to undertake the sale of an ! It is most important that the disease should fort if it was not for “Elixir of Life article upon which the Shakers had spent ‘ he promptly and properly treated in its first much study and labor to bring to perfection stages, when a little medicine will effect a Hoot.” He has suffered for the past ten but which up to that time was comparative- cure, and even when it has obtained a strong years with Kidney Troubles, but uow feels ly bu. little known. j hold the true remedy should be persevered hke a new man. With but little capital the enterprise was | in until every vestige of the disease is cradi- started, but the real merit that the article j cated. until the appetite has returned and Velvet, plush, and novelty ribbons are possessed gave the new business a standing ! lie digestive organs are restored to a healthy j almost at once, for everywhere it was intro- condition. Thisdisease is called LiverCom- used to make handsome hanging pockets duoed the article became a staple < omodity. j plaint and by various other names, hut the <>r reticules that can be worn with any Indeed, the fame of the Shakers spread like real disease is Dyspepsia. The safest and the flames on a burning prairie, and this, too surest remedy for the disease is the one we dress. without the usual puffing and advertising | have described, the Shaker Extract of Hoots that is bestowed upon nearly all new pro- prepared by the Mount Lebanon Shakers, Large, very large bonnets are the most jects. The mode of conducting the business , who have spent more than fifty years in THE GREAT was new and a novel one, worthy of imita- j studying the medicinal preparation < f plants j fashionable, but small and medium sizes tion by those who possess goods that will : and roots. Read “Life Among the Shakers” | BURLINGTON ROT TB. and cottage and turban shapes continue stand upon their actual merits This success- and learn more about this excellent article. I iS^"No other line runs Three Through Pas­ ful business plan was as follows: The gen-j Hinkley, Fuller & “ Overcoats,Ulsters. volving Chairs for the exclusive use of first- cause of any of these troubles. Try it fame of the article ha« spread j class pa wengers. rope. In London alone over lift...... fteen million Steel Track rod Superior Equipment, com- and be convinced. 1 y21 packages have been sold. From London the R eady AIad< ■ Lined with their Great Through CarArrange- article has beensent all over the world,even | -lent, makes ibis, above all others, ttiofavorite Neck-kerchiefs of foulard and Surah to India, Australia, Japan, etc., while it is i Route to ih“ South, South-West, and the Far have lace borders nppliqued on with gold i clamed that this enormous business has CLOTHING ! ;I W est. - been built up without the usual puffing and I Try it. and you will find traveling a luxury thread chain stitch embroidery, inclosing | advertising, there has beau a certain kind Woolen Shirts, Etc., , instead of a discomfort. ] of advertising, hut of a peculiar character. Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line floral designs. This business has been established by one A.ndi. ?/IoiLoy! ! for s-'ie at nil offices in the United States and party telling another until the fame of the j Canada. Here are some of the hat ornaments of article lias spread all over the land and MY STOCK OF A.I information about Rates of Fare, Sleep- in-' Tar Accommodations, Time Tables, &c., season—shrimps of colored metal, tiny thousands are singing songs of praise of the virtues of the article. The wonder lias been Boots, Shoe- & Moccasin?! .v;ii tv cheerfully given by applying to Sold and silver mice, cocks’ heads, or the how such a large trade could be built up in J. Q. A. BEAN. Gen’! Eastern Agent, the sale of an article redfhnmended as a is larger than ever before. Call and bOi Wn-uiington St... Boston, Mass, °utire bird in colored metal, enamel, and cure for one disease only. This was indeed price my fit7 and PIT Uro ulwry, New York. leathers of the Turkeyan bird, metal and the secret of the great success, because it P ehCIVAL Low ell, Gen. Pass. Agt... Chicago. was recommended hut for one disease, Dys­ T. J. Potter, General Manager, Chicago. hone wolves’ heads with the mouth wide pepsia. Had it been put on the market as a DRY G O O D S cure for all, failure would have followed cer­ °Pen, showing the red tongue and sharp tain_____ and__ sure,______because the absurdity of re­ I DOWNS’ ELIXIR. 'vhite teeth, da ggers and pistols of gold, commendingimnnending one remedy for all diseases is t< » apparent for this enlightened -~~m age. " But ' H \7P.P ( f) A T Q ddU'A .Y,?,,,H- AN iis article possessed real merit and where- L/ V JJl-vv/vJTi. J. O E \ E > .ILrOlH;,. silver and other metals,sometimes adorned thi N, H. DOWNS’ eververit it wontwent it mauemade hostsnuom ...... ol friends. -JNNAnoth- ~ AY ~ _ ~ "tth jewels, gilt and silver snails, boars’ er wonder was that...... the sale of the... remedy..FALL AMD WHITER Vegetable Balsamic tusks capped with gold at the base, turtles, for one single disease could have command­ ' \ ed such large proportion; hut when we re­ °0topu8eS) lobsters, and crabs in enamel flect that Indigestion is the cause, of nearly all our ailments it will not he so surprising. a,’d gilt, and spiders of jet, of malachite, The fact is that most cases of so-called Ma ''nd of imitation opal, with gilt claws. laria. Liver Complaint, diseases of the Kid­ neys, etc., are simply aggravated cases of ELIXIR j This valuable medicine is purely vegetable . B ed L ips a n d R osy Ch e e k s.— VVIteel- Dyspepsia—mere symptoms of the real dis­ ease; and the reason so many physicianspuyon.* W. Va., May 30, 1881. la m an old unsuccessful...... 1 *•« *fautina in treating this class this ofclassof disease disease | T n o s c la y, Ocfc. X ltli. many years’ close study, jn order to discover is that the patients are treated for the i when will ho ,h„»„ tt,»„„,.v ...... i,. I the cause, the symptoms, and the cure—viz: Musician, and have lost many of my youth- OTOUs disease—theyU lW W O -eiid, are —- treated fee synn.- »,")„*!S " Nff.TT.d fJlf Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Catarrh, ful prejudices. Learning of the great good toms instead of the disease itself. „ Ostrich Plumes, Tips, Fancy Feathers and • “The”Tlie axe is miulaid aiat theUic foot of the tree. Oranients. riusucsPlushes amiand mint-uni’materials of • Croup, Asthma, Pleurisy, Hoarseness, ' 0r>e hv a certain remedy in restoring to The great success of this article (the fenaker j j . j n tj 8 used in Millinery. A larger stock of r°hust health a former patient of mine who Influenza, Spitting Blood, Bronchitis, | Extract of Roots)ULh/ proves |lll» v c a theULISS V-vraxv,correctness------oi , — V - -TV - O — —V — O ------O S> :** •uffered severely from several chronic ail- this theory. No article would meet with F and every species of oppression of the Cliest EUXIR [ DOWNS’ such rapid sale without puffing and adver­ than ever before. and L u n gs. In all cases where this Elixir has ln°nts resulting from weak pulmonary, tising unless it effects cures, and the very 5tf L. N. BRACKETT, been duly administered its efficacy has been U'gesti------•------•»'— i invariably manifested, convincing the most in­ o^ouve and urinary organs, and whom I fact that this article was designed as a euro No. 6, Beal Block Vas unable to benefit with my most care- for Dyspepsia alone shows that I ndigestion credulous that or Dyspepsia was the foundation of nearly 11' treatment, I determined to prescribe all these so-called diseases. Only two years CONSUMPTION !t- I have done so, and the results have since a beautiful young lady was given up JEWELRY! is not incurable, if properly attended to.— to die of consumption. Her fond parents Consumption, at its commencement, is but a Invariably been most satisfactory. Under slight irritation of the membrane which covers lts use the blood becomes richer, the di­ took her to Paris as a last resort, hoping to findJ some ...... skillful physician there to arrest SPECTACLES 4 EYE-GLASSES i the Lungs; then an inflamation, when the gestive, urinary and pulmonary organs are theo rapid strides of the supposed dreadfuldreauiui | ' cough is more observable, but rather dry; then Uiade strong and p'erform their natural diseasesease. IntaNil' this "their ~ hopes '------u were v Liio-hted.blighted, Gan be procured atNo.fi Beal Block Phillips. I becomes local fever and the pulse more fro- it fortunately away in that foreign city they | ,, j i n T. i -- + „ ' quent, the cheeks flushed and chills more com­ Utletions readily and without pain; all de- hutmet with this Shake;s’ remedy from America. Also » x X v ° x* Jr l a T O d mon. Tiiis Elixir in curing the above com­ ^ay seems to he immediately checked and Themet result was that the young lady is alive T i l » > lc W a r e , and some ot the plaints, operates so as to remove all m orbid the - ...... * Progress of the disease arrested; the and well to-day. She did not have oonaump- j B t C|ocks in the market. Prices to suir irritations and inflamation from the tion: she was a sufferer from Dyspepsia, • lungs to the surface, and finally expel them ! . se becomes fuller and stronger, the lips which is tn alarm ny disease afflicting o mt- the tim es. Watcnos, CLOCKS from the system. It facilitates expectoration, et* anil clieeks rosv, the temperature in- m-ermts class. The disease commences with a jewelry, cfc c. REPAIRED, It heals the ulcerated surfaces -“fVU Hnu IT(t)re milllMllI, 111 c ilULIUII Ul slight derangement of tlie stomach, but if . ,.f and relieves the cough and makes tlie breath* ] „le ''eart regular and the muscular strength neglected, it in time involves too whole |<1‘ . -»t *-■, “ 1 , ing easy. It supports the strength and at the | Kreatly invigorated. In justice to the in- frame,inline, elmiiauii8embracing tlie mo kidneys, liver, pan-[ ______Y*__ZrT_5 same time reduces tlie fever. It is free from creas, and in fact the entire glandular sys- j strong opiate and astringent articles, which are j entors, I will say this remedy is Brown’s tom and the afflicted one drags out a mis- I J. C. WINTER, M. D., of so drying a nature as to be in great dangerot r',n Bitters; it is a preparation of Iron erable existance until death gives relief from destroying tlie patient; whereas this medicine I H i yt'getable tonics; contains no alcohol, suffering. The disease is often mistaken never dries or stops the cough, but, by remov-1 for other complaints, but if the reader will PhYSICI^S) jjURQEOHG in g the cause, generally destroys the hectic 'Vs the only preparation of Iron in a ask hiin.-,elf the follow ing questions he will before the cough is entirely gone. Conse­ • erfectly assimilable form and that does he able to determine whether lie himself is quently, when the cough is cured the patient jtot Slacken the teeth. I have never known one of the afflicted: Have 1 distress, nain Phillips, Maine. is well. Send addreas for pamphlet giving or difficulty in breathing after eating? Ts full directions for cure of pulmonary diseases tail to give permanent strength to there a dull, heavy feeling, attended by Residence at the old stand of Dr. Kimball. Price 35 «ts., BO ots„ and $1.00 per Dottle. , ery part of thi? body, or to injure the drowsiness? Have the eyes a yellow tinge? SOLI) EVERYWHERE. j ' )st delicate constitution. I have known Does a thick, stickv mucus gather about Office in Beal Block. gums and teeth in the mornings, accompan­ IIEXRY, JOIIXSOX & LORD. Props., Burlington, ft. 0 assist in curing many chronic diseas- ThTpp a week in your own town. T 5 w and ied by a disagreeable taste? Is there pain in © O D & outfit free. Address I DOWNS’ ELIXIR !— “ M il*l other remedies had failed.— the sides and back ? Is there a fullness about! Av&J H. H allett & Co., Portland, Me. the right side, as if the liver were enlarging? j 12 The l3hi 1 lips Phonograph, a Live, Local P an er.-S 1.50 per Y ear Fun and 3?hvsic- The Very Latest! The crank stills grinds out items for Washington correspondents. All forms of impaired vitality,mental ex­ haustion, weakened digestion, etc. etc., radically removed by using Brown's Iron We have a clean, New Stock of Bitters. I have just opened ‘■Guilty or not guilty ?’’asked Dutch jus­ tice of prisoner. “ Not guilty.” “ Den what do you want here? Go about your pizness.” Ready) N|adD HloThinO Twice has Earl Dunraven been arrested in Canada for shooting moose without a New and Larue Stock of Dry Goods, Grocer­ license. He is apparently one of the ies, Crockery and Glass Ware, which I am which we are selling at prices that make all our customers think early birds that gets caught. prepared to sell as low as any “ I declare!” exclaimed Brown, “ I be­ lieve I have forgotten all I ever knew.” “ Sorry to hear it.” remarked Fogg. “ However, you can take an hour some day and learn it all over again. I m p o r t a n t to T r a v e l e r s .—Special inducements are offered by the B u r l ­ in g t o n Ro u t e . It will pay you to read in Phillips. A large stock of and the latest $ 5 .0 0 their advertisement to be found elsewhere styles in Dress Goods of all descriptions may Winter Overcoats in this issue. 40t28 be MEN’S Wint i • Suits, 7.00 “ What's that word?” asked Nat of his 10.00 next neighbor at the hotel dinner-table. Beaver Ov e 'coats, “ That’s entrees,” was the reply. “ Wait­ Listers, 10.00 er."’ howls Nat, “ bring me some lobster salad and chicken pie on trays.” "Rubber Overcoats 3.50 A Wisconsin justice of the peace divorc­ Rubber Caps. 50 e. am 1 l.o o ed a couple recently as follows : He stood live them in the middle of the floor, backs to­ upon my shelves. My old ambition to get Boys’ Suits, with L Pants, s.) Overcoats, three to gether, and as they walked away from rich in a short time is dollars. each other he repeated the marriage cere­ <1 <•»" mony backwards. For Geut’s Underwear we have the best bargains ever otleo' < ^ ^.pCCl A small boy testified in an Austin jus- tic's court that the affray took place on a sell good Undershirts and Drawers at prices ranging from 2°(''• ' Sunday. “ How do you know it was Sun­ to three dollars, do., do., and after looking at our goods all mu s,L day?” Because that day I had to go to the back door of the saloon to get beer in­ stead of the front door. land I am prepared to sell Cloakings, Suit- They Cannot be Sold Cheapef 1 tPAivsThKifjw Tf von find ■ mgs^ Ulster Cloths, Flannels, and everything bLAKD AGAI‘N3T DISEASE.— It you nm l, ln* he Dry Goods line at “Live and Let Live” 1o, 15, 2o, 25, 35, 4 o , 5o, 75c., l.oo*"dT5> vourself-gettingbilliousjhead heavy,mouth prices. SUSPENDERS foul,eyes yellow,kidneys disordered,symp­ I lie finest line ever shown here. toms of piles tormenting you, take at once J35'“ Don't go cold when you can get at No­ ble’s, nice heavy Underflannels,at only 25 ets. a few doses of Kidney-Wort. It is nature’s each. great assistant. Use it as advance guard —don’t wait to get down sick. See large I have anything and everything In the line advertisement. of D om estics which you can buy of me and save money by so doing. -A full, New Stock “ Don't you know that it is a felony to the best styles to he fo ml all at low steal a pocket-book out of a gentleman’s . t3F”Don’t fail to vail on me for that nice T o a and Coffee which everybody usual. pocket?” asked an Austin justice of a praises so highly. hard case. “Yes, I know it. jedge, but have also the largest assortment of dat ar pocket-book bulged out at de sides T obacco dat I b’leeve you has so much speret in | yer dat yer would hab made a break for it j yerself, jedge, ef nobody was watchin’ j ever ^ —For Woolen Goods we have the best assortment by far that ha^ t^ yer.” afl< j shown here, and can furnish...... them tviat nil all prices auunud in»lJ all q'ml‘ 1 Women that have been given up by ! l 1 W > gt Cjt.r1.rv~ 1 » A ,11 be their dearest friends as beyond help, have I best of styles, in both domestic and imported goods. Give us a w*1* _ been permanently cured by the use of! IN PHILLIPS! you buy your Suitings, Woolens, or Paul Cloths ot any kind, «ucl 9€ Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. we have. It is a positive eure for all female com­ plaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for HENRY W. TRUE, TAILOR’ pamphlets. 2t9 am ready to match the prices of any C rockery dealer in town. Call “James,” said the veteran parliamen- and see my elegant assortment. tarain, as they sat quietly fishing, “ it G e n t ’s F u r n i s h n c G wouldn't do to move the previous ques­ teg” ! have a full line of that new and love-; tion up here.” “ Why not here as well ly Fainted! C rockerv cm • , , • . ,At> as elsewhere?” inquired James. “ Be­ which just now is “all the rage.” ^ ! Sturts, wfiit. and coloied. in Liueu or Flannel, and such a variel) J cause,” explained the veteran, as he pro­ all can he pleased, and the ban it ■ ceeded to render his hook tempting to fish, y will he sold for less money “ because if the motion should prevail it to buy the goods aud uia/re them up lor y o u r sc would cut off allde bait.” Linen Collars \W Complicated Disease*.—A promi­ Cuffs and Please remember that I have nent gentleman in Cerro Gordo County, chiefs, Celluloid Coir C and kerchiefs, Silk IklI,< Iowa, writes us that he finds Kidney-Wort j S.d.i t rs aiul Cuffs, Neckties aud to be the best remedy he ever knew for a Scarfs complication of diseases. It is the speci­ School StpS an<) Traveling-Bags, fic action which it has on the liver, kid­ Boots. ShoeS Toy, I T a,1<1 Straps, neys and bowels, which gives it such cu­ 5 --->•■->8 «w Games.cim rs, allan new. • rative power, and it is the thousands of a n d cures which it is performing which gives 8 7 Books, Stationery and Wall P P it its great celebrity. Liquid (very con­ J i TJ 15 IJ E R S centrated) or dry, both act efficiently.—N. II. Journal and Courier. which I am selling Cheap, and that! shall Wife, just returned from a shopping keep all through the winter those 1 Drugs and Medicines i tour—“ Come and see what I’ve got for you, Eugene.” Eugune—“ Ah, just like you, darling; always thinking of me!” MONMOUTH Fancy. Goods and Toilet Article?*, Bevftimes and 1' . He advances as he wife removes the wrap Pipes, Tobacco, and the best line of jorted and ping and exposes some fine drawings from a neighboring marble yard. Husband i starts back and exclaims, excitedly: “ Gracious, Laura! what did you bring MOCCASINS, C I G r these things here for?” Thoughtful wife the best in the market. - —“ Well, Eugene, I heard you complain L V E n 1 ______Whether you want to buy or not, call and ; SHOW N IIBI1® ^ fl of feeling unwell this morning and I Inspect my stock, and it shall cost you noth- X T _ U ‘t >* m / S _ ^ 0 * 1 I I thought you’d like to look at some tomb­ stone patterns.” : n. p. Noble. Hmkley, Fuller & Crag1'