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Detailed map of the north-central states framed in decorative borders indicating drainage, state, county, and township boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, railroads, and proposed railroads. [From published bibliography]
Detailed general map of portions of North America framed in decorative borders showing drainage, international and state boundaries, cities and towns, forts, railroads in operation, and proposed lines. [From published bibliography]
Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."
Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by hachures. Scale 1:12,000; 1,000 ft. to 1 in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 650/2; 650/3; 710/2
Map shows Union troops on the road running parallel to the Orange and Alexandria railroad. Just past Bristoe Station, as Union troops crossed Broad Run, a Confederate battery emerged from woods north of the railroad. Next, Confederate skirmishers appeared on a hill overlooking the Union column. Finally, there were several Confederate charges. Union forces were able to return fire and, after several hours of fierce fighting, to capture Confederate artillery and approximately 450 prisoners.
Was it Providence A True Story of the Civil War It was in September ltj2 just before that terrible slaughter known as the bat tle of Autietam It was a time when tlie whole world looked on and held its breath The contending armies of the North and the South were about to meet iu a conflict that would go down iu history as one of the great battles of the world There arc those w ho remember how the old Iron Brigade went down as did the famous six hundred in its historic charge at Balak lava how but a remnant remained of that devoted band of heroes and that memory must be filled with horror as they recall the awful loss of precious lives One of the survivors of this Iron Brigade I believe but seven answered the rollcall after the hattle whm before it tin brigade was almost complete con sisting of two legimeuts the Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin Infantry then a mere boy of seventeen summers tells of a most remarkable incident which is the subject of this narrative and from the writers personal knowledge of the man there is no doubt of its truth The
NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns
Crossing the Andes in 1905 fey Winding Trails Near Their Southern End Special Correspondence of Tile Journal Mendoza Argentina October 15 1005 in this part of South America as farther north the Andean system comprises three distiuct chains the en tire mountain belt having an average width of 250 miles The easternmost Cordillera is known as the laramillos and the westernmost as the Combre The central cordillera is the highest continuous section of the Andean wall from Panama to Patagonia there be ing only two gaps between Aconcagua and Maypua distance of 100 miles where the crest falls below 19000 feet and both Aconcagua and Tupungato exceed 22000 feet Having climbed the Paramillos range we found ourselves on the summit about two oclock one afternoon at a height of 9000 feet above the sea and about 7000 above Mendoza It was bitterly cold even here the ground covered with snow and a tremendous wind sweeping over the crest but the scenery which had increased in graudeurevery hour re paid a thousand fold the toil of the ascent Mendoza appeared to lie directly at our feet so near that we could count its white houses and trace the shaded streets and
FAR WEST FARMER Bruce 6 Eaton and Bis Farm of 23000 Acres A visitor from the west came to Springfield the other day and has gout away with the impression that the Con neticut valley is the prettiest place that he has ever seen This man was Bruce G Eaton theownerof a little farm in Colorado near the town ol Greeley which is in the center of one of the richest farming sections of the state and thanks to irrigation one ol the best of the country Mr Eatons little farm comprises at present 23000 acres of which 1300 are under cultivation and Mr Eaton is making preparations to till about 500C more the coming year Mr Eaton is the son of one of the pioneers of that section who crossed the plains in 1850 Mr Eaton was married about 1C years ago his wife being a native ol Colorado bat also a graduate of Mt Holyoke college so that they have a tie with the east The town in which they live is Greeley named after Hor ace Greeley and it is a beautiful town about 52 miles north of Denver The homestead was but the begin ning of
Literary News and Notes Holman Day the well known Maine author is getting out a new book en tilled King Spruce which is to be published by Harper Bros The story w liich is appearing serially in the New England Magazine is a most interest ing one and deals with life and doings in the Maine wools and in the opinion of the writer is the best sustained and the highest iu literary quality of any of Mr Days novels The December issue of the Atlantic is a peculiarly interesting magazine There are seven important articles each very brilliant of its kind The leader is entitled The Future of our Navigable Waters and is written by John L Mathews who has been mak iug a special study of the subject An Art Museum for the People by Frank Jewett Mather treats of the best practical arrangement of exhibi tions for public use Agnes Deans Cameron writes on Wheat the Wiz ard of the North a striking article telling of the enormous immigration to the newly utilized fields of western Canada There is abundant fiction of the usual high Atlantic standard and the poetry is of a strictly Christmas character One
THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch
County Correspondence 1 Deferred from last week HALLDALE The school here closed June 24th The pupils net absent during the term wese Maynard Susie and Asa Hall Absent onehalf day Hazel Hall and Hattie ClarkMiss Eva Hop kins of Lowell Mass is visiting her aunt Mrs E 1 Hall There is much complaint of pota toes rotting in the ground Many have planted their ground over NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS Mr and Mrs Henry Littlefield and family Mr and Mrs Howard Littlefield and Mr and Mrs Fred Lane and son Amos attended the wedding reception of Mr and Mrs Charles Kenney at the home of the brides parents Mr and Mrs Daniel Dunaver Sunday Mrs Linda Partridge Miss Bertha Partridge and Mr Herman Partridge visited relatives in Swanville last week_ Miss Beatrice Eames is visiting her brother Mr Jacob Eames and wife at the villageMrs William Smith and Miss Helen Calderwood left Friday for a weeks visit in Unity and ThorndikeMrs Alberta Kenney and children of Hallowell vis ited her sister Mrs Blanche Littlefield last weekMrs Flora Marden visited Miss Amy Lane recently PROSPECT FERRY Mrs L D Berry and son Harry and Mrs C G Carley and daughter Hazel went
rOOK TROU of this Popular Game Fish items superintendent of k ih hatchery Orland t and trout No less ct species in twentyeight t vn as trout among the America There are great lake trout the ne lollyvarden trout and so on arid in Eu 1 arc many other spe head of them all in V and renown stands iut of North Amer that inhabits every and nearly or quite ponds and lakes rally a diminutive a few ounces in of pounds but it is tli cases known to Salvelinus fontinalis or charr of the me charr is one u has escaped by some i those trout of the most closely related not called trout some of the old are fussy about rish should be call in charr line To us this iys been a trout nain whether we ok or in Pattens and when any from Moosehead t we will say name trout i alittle round yellowish egg u h in diameter ible and elastic sc eggs are de al in autumn in brooks and left t hey have lain weeks say about got one out and i it tenanted by inmense staring r body coiled up aing heart
obituary her 16 1916 William J I NoTVorthport Maine passed i f peacefully to his reward fc siwi le months and 27 days KC Mr Greenlaw North fjhe death _f js most highly re Vind the sympatny of ll it entire ccmmunity is ff V Waved family Mr 1 third son of the late fc v Ktherine Staples Green IW irn in the town of Waldo 1 vs where the E 1 until he was grown to 1 ge was educated in native town and at the f minary Kents Hill J iving the seminary he veral years When J was 21 years of age the Knox Maine It was fii r hat the West appealed spirit and accordingly in Sacramento California 0r wiated in business for 1 rothers Alonzo and tin gone there several years went to Nevada and M miik business first at 0C veral months later vs h n he remained un 1865 he came back to ji nr Gy to Northport moved during his r decided to settle it nil bought the farm v as part owner and the ianiel A Wad 1S68 he was unit Miss Clara J Pres ide Joel and Kath same town
jSEP TO LEAVE HIS VESSEL Mazerill Stays by the Dismasted r E Ayer His Wife and Baby ueJ ff Cape Cod The Schooner Ited into Boston Sunday 1 rJight of terror on a waterlogged iflt7 iTed vessel Mrs Jennie Mazerill jo of the twomasted schooner ife I n f Bangor and her 14monthsold i A Albert were brought to Boston iby tie steamer Bunker Hill which M the schooners boat off Cape I bert Mazerill and the crew of turned to the lurching craft after b 1 inferred the woman and child to l r Mrs Mazerill lost most of her when she reached the deck of the Eie t and her baby were drenched iit It was a terrible night and we choner would capsize any mo hl M Mazerill She was given hot t ourishing food and was placed k ts in one of the staterooms eatt in bed when the Bunker Hill her berth on the south side of T ar at 1030 a m was caught in the furious north Friday and the lurching and t he seas caused her to spring a he was wallowing about in a wild ght when the mainmast toppled it
County Correspondence NORTH ISLESBORO Mrs I M Burgess is the guest of Mr and Mrs Charles Rose in Rockland Mr Jesse Bates is attending the M C I in Pittsfield Mrs William Farrow left last week for a visit with her husband in BostonMiss Caro Heal arrived from Brockton Mass last Satur day to spend a week with her parents Mr and Mrs B F Heal Miss Elizabeth Bates who is teaching in Unity was at home over Sunday Miss Eunice Keller a student of the Cas tine Normal school spent the weekend at home MrsHelen Ryder and daughter Gay lie were in Belfast over Sunday Mrs H M Coombs visited in Camden and Rockland last week_Mrs Jason Greenlaw who spent the summer at her home in Deer Isle arrived last week for the winterMrs Isabel Sprague is the guest of Mrs Velocia E Coombs LIBERTY Mr and Mrs Earle P Maloney have return ed from a two weeks visit with Mr Maloneys relatives in Thomaston MeSherman Cram and Earl Reynold are digging potatoes in Freedom_The corn factory has closed hav ing done a very successful falls workDr S W Johnson of Belfast was in town last week on business
II The Republican Joitrnai 1 MK Sh BELFAST MAINE THURSDAY MAY 25 WIG ymimli 0 I of locays journal W _ lirtbe8 News of the Gr nges y in Press Association Secret SocietiesPer VlHll Problem Washington Obituary Benjamin Priest itinal Lecture North Wal Grange Vogue of Spots lM i g luris Wilson a Girl of The News of Belfast in Keal Estate Wedding ast BelfastThe News of yoks News of Belfast h Nichols County Corre t A Few Notes on the Life k of Col Jesse Smart of Composite Disease from California Northport Recent Deaths Transfers in i 8tate Two John J Ingalls Accuse U S Department cnculture of Swindle retort Stockton Springs The fast Price Currentborn rm Hied_ I he L hurclies the Congregational church ext Sunday Morning wor Sunday school at noon is Thursday evening at A Knowlton 16 Miller rvice next Sunday in the and all veterans and aftili nvited to attend the Me Methodist church when is will preach an appro t honor ionary Auxiliary of the i their annual meeting iast with Mrs Charles M sent The Kings High dialogue was read by sev mbcrs The annual reports o 1 and the following offi lent
mis WEAK HERVOHS MOTHER Tells How Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health Philadelphia PaI was very weak always tired my back ached and 1 felt sickly most of the time I went to a doctor and he said I had nervous indi gestion which ad ded to my weak condition kep me worrying most of the time and he said if I could not stop that I could not get well I heard so muchabout LydiaE Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound my husband wanted me to try it I took it for a week and felt a little bet ter I kept it up for three months and I feel fine and can eat anything now without distress or nervousness Mrs J Worthline 2842 North Taylor St Philadelphia Pa The majority of mothers nowadays i overdo there are so many demands upon their time and strength the result is invariably a weakened rundown nervous condition with headaches back ache irritability and depression and soon more serious ailments develop It is at such periods in life that Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound will restore a normal healthy condition as it did to Mrs Worthline Universal Military Training j Hamlin Garland