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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13

The statement of Col Dewitt, showing
the very large amount OF patronage which
goes to democrats of this city through his
hands as agent of the Sprague Company,
is sumner for those who have charged
him with using his position to favor the
republican party. If they do not receive
a generous consideration at his hands what
can he do tor them? Plainly he is not
governed in the management of his affairs
by what republicans or democrats wish,
but by what mis- Judgment tells him is best
for the firm which he represents. While
We would be pleased to see his patronage
go to republicans, we have not thought il
worth while or becoming to make any
pilgrimages to Providence on that &C.
count.
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Senators Elected.

ANDRosCoGGIN.
jeremiah Dingley, Jr., Auburn.
Jesse Davis, Lewiston.
CUMBERLAND.
Charles ]. Morris, Portland.
Henry Pennell, Gray.
Caleb A. Chaplin, Harrison.
Charles Humphrey, Yarmouth.
FRANKLIN.
Francis M. Howes, New Sharon.
HANCOCK.
S. T. Kinks, Bucksp9rt.
KENNEBEC.
Reuben Foster, Waterville.
John May, Winthrop.
OXFORD.
Otis Hayford, Jr., Canton.
E. c. Harrington, Fryeburg.
PENoBscoT.
Joseph L. Smith, Oldtown.
John B. Foster, Bangor.
John b. Eickels, Kenduskeag.
John Kimball, Hermon.
PIsCATAoUIs.
Charles L. Dunning.
SAGADAHOC.
Joseph W. Spaulding, Richmond.
SOMERSET.
Franklin r. Weber, ST. Adams.
William Philbrick, Skowhegan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13

Composed Of Dock Root, sarsaparilla, Rock Rose,
Wintergreen, Dandelion, Wild Cherry, Thorough
wort, Pricky Ash Poplar Bark. Rhubarb, etc.
For Weakness, Loss of Appetite, Jaun-
dice, Headache, Sour stomach, Piles Of
long standing, HumOrs, and all Diseases rhfch
arise from Indicating state Of TIE Stomach,
Bo,cets, and Blood, for which valuable Roots and
Herbs, and the knowledge Of their great service to
suffering humanity, man cannot feel too thankful
to Him who wisely provided US with all things.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13
GENERAL NEWS.


Vice President Colfax is in Dakota. His
health is very much better.
A conspiracy to burn the Vatican is report
ed as having been discovered at Rome.
The Communist Colonel Rossen has been
sentenced to military degradation and death.
The Empress Eugene has left England for
Spain, where she intends to visit again the
scenes of her youth.
1t is reported that Mr.. George G. FOgg
will be the editor Of the consolidated Repub-
lican organ at Concord, New Hampshire
| The town of stratton, N. H., has four farms
that have never been owned cut of the fami-
lies Of their present owners.
| For the past eight years no children born in
Kilda, an island in the outer Hebrides, have
survived. This ia attributed to the uncieanly
habits of the people.
| The Internal Revenue Department is now
| issuing all denominations OF the new adhesive
stamps, and will exchange these for any of
the old ones.
The negotiations of the Emperors at Salz-
burg have resulted in the determination of
Germany and Austria to unite for the repudi-
alton of all aggressive ideas"
| The Tichboarne claimant creates great
sensation wherever he goes in England. He
appears to enjoy it, and his health is good.
No restraint is placed on his movements,
a. II CT ~
shadows.
reporter thus graphically describes the
effect of storm on the North river: "While
the vessel was in the vessel keeled to the lar
board, and the captain and another barrel OF
whisky fell overheard"
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an
ill-natured; for the latter will only attack his
enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other
\ Injuries indiferently both friends and foes.-
Addison.
Wilhelm Won Humbolt's eldest son died re-
Gently in Berlin, at the age of seventy five
years. He was all his days what the Germans
call a "sonderling" Among other eccentric
tiles he spent his last twenty years exclusively
in bed, although in vigorous health, which
slowly yielded to his prolonged freak. He
was buried at Negal, the sepulchre of hi.
father.
The Pottsville Miners Journal has Will
liam Tell story, with difference, from New
town. A party of four men had been ou
cunning, and upon returning to town found al
itinerant Italian image peddler in the street,
who they directed to stand off a certain mum.
Der of PAGES, and keep the rack of images
upon the top of his head while they shot then
off. After shooting the last image, these
ironoclasts magnanimously refused to pay fol
the damage they had done.
1 The Panama Star tells the following story
of smart dog: "When the dog wishes to
cross a river where alligators abound, he goes
up the stream great way and barks W it'll all
: his might; the alligators go there and wait
, for him to swim across. The dog knows what
he is about; when he sees from the number OF
shouts above water that his enemies have all
e gathered to the feast, he runs down the bank
as fast as he can, and swims across before the
= alligators are aware of the trick that has been
, played upon them"
Mrs. Swisshelm has sound views on house
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13

|
I~ cellent medicine enjoys,
11oS \ Is derived from its cures,
m ~ - many Of which are truly
~~m marvellous. Inveterate
cases of Scrofulous dis.
II M ease, where the system
~ "a seemed saturated with
49, corruption, have been
-6a purified and cured by 1t.
- Scrofulous affections and
- disorders, which were ag-
gravated by the scrofti-
lous contamination until
they were painfully affecting, have been radically
cured in such great numbers in almost every sec
ton of the country, that the public scarcely need to
be informed of its virtues or uses.
Scrofulous poison is one of the most destructive
enemies Of our race. Often, this unseen and unfelt
tenant OF the organs m undermnes the constitution
and invites the attack Of enfeeblng fatal diseases
without exciting suspicion Of its presence. Again.
then, on some favorable occasion, rapidly develop
into one or other of its hdeous forms, either the
surface or among, the vitals In the latter, tuber
Giles may be suddenly deposited in the lungs or
heart or tumors formed in the liver, it shows
its presence by eruptons the skin, or foul ulcer
sional use of bottle of this SarsapariIa is ad-
visable, even when no active symptoms of disease
appear. Persons afflicted with the following com.
plants generally find immediate relief, and, at
length, cure, by the use of this SARSAPARIL-
La: St. Aathony's Fire, Rose or Erysipelas,
Sore Eyes, Sore Ears, and other eruptions or
visible forms Of Scrof"tous disease. Also in the
Me"r psssse 0r% . as Dag;s
and the various Ulcerous affections of the muscu-
lar and nervous systems.
Syphilis or YenereaI and Mercurial Diseases
are cured by it, though long time is required for
subduing these obstinate maladies by any medicine.
But long continued use of this medicine will cure
the complaint. LemcOrrh9a or Whites, Uterine
UIceratiOns, and Female Diseases, are COM
monty, soon relieved and ultimately cured by its
purifying and invigorating effect. Minute Direc.
tons for each case are found in Almanac, sup
piled gratis. determinations and GOMt, when
caused by accumulations of extraneous matters
in the blood, yield quickly to it, as also Liver
Complaints, TOrpidity, COnOestiOn or InJfan-
snatton of the Lirer, and Jaundice, when arising,
as they often do, from the ranking posons in the
blood. This SARS4PARILL4 Is a great re-
storer for the strength and yigor of the system.
Those who are Languid and Listfess, Despon-
dent. SfeepIess, and troubled with Nervous Ap-
prehensions or Fears, or any of the affections
symptomatic of Weakness, win find immediate
relief and convincing evidence of its restorative
power upon trial.
PREPARED By
DR.. y. @. AVER & CO., Lowell, Mass.,
Practical and analytical Chemists.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
For salein Augusta, by +. Fuller q Son.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13

The first bell ever attached to a locomotive
in the United States is doing duty as door
bell in Black River Falls, Wis. 1t began its
career on . railroad between Albany and
Schenectady in 1888.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13
GEO. c. GOODWIN & CO., Agents,
BOSTON.
The Confessions OF an Inyali.'

Published warning and for the benefit OF
young men and others, who suffer from Nervous
Debility &c, supplying THE MEANS OF sELF-CURE.
Written by one who cured himself, and sent free
on receiving postpaid directed envelope.
Address, NATHANIEL MAYFAIR, Brooklyn, n. Y
mayhem
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13

grows as colorless as her floors, and to
Compass her five kinds of cake she will
sacrifice not only the bread of life, but life
itself. My thirdly, the importance to
health of outside interests, l shall have to
deter till my next letter.-Celia Bnrleigh
in Wonadn's Journal
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KERkEBEC SAVINGS BANK.

Deposits made on or before the
Will be dated back to- the First
day of the same month.
On May LIST and November LIST of each year div
idend of the Net earnings of the Bank will be made
on all deposits standing at those dates which have
been on deposit one full month.
Dividends soon as declared are added to the
principal, thus compromising the interest every six
months.
Loans made to depositors on depositing their
Bank Book security.
Office in Freeman's Bank Building.
j. L. ADAMS, Treasurer.
seps-t&w6m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-13
Ayers Sarsaparilla,
ron PURIFYING THE BLOOD.

The reputation this ex-
cellent medicine enjoys,
is derived from its cures,
many Of which are truly
marvellous. Inveterate
cases of Scrofulous dis.
ease, where the system
seemed saturated with
corruption, have been
purified and cured by 1t.
Scrofulous affections and
disorders, which were ag-
gravated by the scrofu-
loiic oonfnpnina ton until
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
Cheaper Labor.

The great want of the farmer-cheaper
labor-we think, is in fair way to be met.
The tendency of gold is steadily downward,
and all are looking forward to specie pay
ments at no distant day. In 1869 the pre-
MUM averaged about 7. In 1870 about Is,
a falling off of 10 per cent oD nearly one
fifth Of its value. All farm products have
fallen, with two or three exceptions, and
laborers can purchase about as much with
four fifths of dollar now as they could with
a whole dollar two years ago. It is but fair
that farmers should avail themselves of this
change in the price of gold and farm pro-
ducts to make a change in the price of labor.
This is already done in some parts of the
country, and men can be hired by the day
or by the season for about twenty per cent
under former rates. We all want more labor
upon our farms, even with all the advantages
of improved tools and machinery. If we can
get our labor on terms to make it pay a
small profit, we can afford to enlarge our
labor bills every year. We want more labor
applied, especially to digging muck and peat,
and making compost-heaps; to draining and
saving manure; to making barn cellars; for
tillage, draining, and subsoiling. In short,
we want to work less land and make it deeper
and richer.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
A Respectful Inquiry.

All Christian people, and, I may say, all
good citizens throughout the country, have
heard with interest and pleasure of the great
religious movement in your city during the
past winter.
Our cities and towns are centres from
which influence of every sort emanates; and
in this respect, as in a material sense, Lynch
burg is city "set upon hill" As an
humble inhabitant of one of the country
parts which feel the influence spoken of, 1
beg leave most kindly and respectfully to
inquire whether it has been the effect of the
late increase of religious feeling in your
community, along with the vast amount of
religious teaching which has been connected
with it, to put stop in your city to some
practices formerly considered not very con-
sistent with the precepts of the Bible !;
amongst others, that of issuing and circulat-
ing the town newspapers on Sunday morn
ing; which, in occasional visits to Lynch
burg l have noticed to take place? The
time certainly once was when its pious peo-
pie would have been shocked at seeing one
of their papers headed in bold capitals
{" SUNDAY MORNING., or having it thrust in
at their doors on that day. They, 1 fancy,
would have said that if daily papers have to
be printed on Saturday night they ought to
lie in the Office until Monday morning
And, it may be pertinent to ask, if people
cannot wait for the news and editorials and
advertisements from Saturday until Monday
morning, how can they bear the interval be-
tween Sunday and Tuesday mornings? The
next step, then,. will have to be literal
"daily"-Sunday5 not " excepted"
But allow me to ask, with all Difference
towards the persons concerned, whether gen
tlemen printers or their patrons have discov-
cred that the distribution, and reading of
common newspapers is legitimate fulfil
ment of that part of one of the universal
laws of the decalogue which commands US
to keep the sOlemnly appointed weekly ordi-
nance in such manner as to entitle it to be
called "holy" observance? If SO, then
all sorts of reading, not at all religious, and
all sorts of emplOyments, not vicious, form
an appropriate fulflment of the injunction
to "keep holy" The Partisan idea and
practice, as to Sunday, will soon prevail; in
deed, our Sunday-running railroads, are op-
Grating powerfully to introduce it. And
who can shew the harm, in itself considered,
of shoeing horses, driving the pillow, or gath
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
An Interesting Case of Conscience.

In 1866 merchant received through the
Post Office a letter, written in disguised
hand, as follows:
81 owe the firm of -, S, which ]
stole, and am anxious to pay. 1 hope to
tell you of it personally, some day. In the
mean time | will mail you ten dollars week
commencing the first of July, till paid; in
terest and principal will be two thousand
dollars. E. Do not try to discover me-
l send one dollar now, if you accept please
advertise in the Herald Personals, and
sign yourself X. Y. e..
The merchant replied as requested
Every week, from that date, an envelope
was received through the mail, enclosing ten
dollars, with no other writing but the mum,
Der of the payment, until the two hundredth
payment was received, with the following
lines written in the same disguised hand:
"Two HUNDRETH PAYMENT. l send ten
dollars more: if you have got them all,
please advertise in the Herald Personals. y
If not, please advertise how many are lost,
and l will send them"
The merchant replied, "The two hun
dredth payment is received. All rig CHIT
Come and see me, and your name shall be
sacredly confidential A few weeks after
this, young man met this merchant on the
sidewalk and handed him copy of the New
York Herald, pointing out the advertisement
under the head of Personals, and with a
trembling voice said, II am the person who
wronged you while in your employ, and have
been making my weekly payments to you
until paid the debt, which 1 hope God has
forgiven"
"Neyer was my surprise greater" say;
the merchant who communicates this fact
"than to stand before the individual who fol
two hundred weeks, without fail, paid me
out of his earnings the amount he had taker
from me; and he, one of whom never had
the least suspicion.
Such an instance of continued steadfast.
ness of purpose and unostentation, is evil
dence of true penitence and thorough re-
form. 1t should be recorded as an example
for every one who has been guilty of this
sin. 1t is proper to add that this young man
is now in a prosperous business, enjoying
the confidence of his fellow-men, and is a
worthy member of Christian Church.
BLESSED is he whose transgression is for
given, whose sin is covered"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
6 Wanted. a Boy to Attend Bar.

The paper dropped from my hands as 1
read this advertisement. 1t seemed as though
l had read, "Wanted, a boy to 90 down to
perditiOn :"
1 fancied saw bright, earnest boy going
to bar-rOOm, seeking living by that fear
full trade of selling wine and rum. I could
imagine how, one by one, all the good i'm
pulses and desires he had in the beginning
fell before the evil influences of the dram
shop; how he learned to drink, to swear and
steal; how bad companions came around him,
and helped him on to ruin.
All my lad, or whoever you are who may
be tempted by such a call, let me tell you
that you may better work in the field, or at
a forge, or digging bitches, anything honest,
than to degrade yourself by selling death to
others. No matter how hard your work, no
matter if it soils your hands or clothes, so
long as it leaves your heart pure. Beware
of all such good places" as viii lead you
into the snares of the evil one. There are
many doors, besides those of the bar-rooms,
which are almost the same as gateways down
to the world of woe.-Norning Light
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
CENTRAL PRESB YTERIAN

ering grain, or having social entertainments
on the Christian Sabbath? If there is any
earthly harm in these things, on that day
more than on any other, it can only be be-
cause they interfere with the ends and pur-
poses of the divine appointment. All the
institutions of the Christian religion cling
around the Sabbath; and any thing that
tends to nullify it tends so far to undermine
the influence of Christianity on our people,
and in the same degree to demoralize us and
bring ruin on ourselves or our children
These views may be decreed as "old'fash-
Toned" strictness; but they are no more old
fashioned than the Bible or the Christianity
of the best people that have lived in differ
ent ages of the world.
But 1 trust that the religion which has
been fourishing in your town is such as our
Saviour and his faithful forerunner preached,
which "bringeth forth fruits Of repentance
and reformation. Rus.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
Australia.

Australia is one of the most prosperous
and most promising of the young nations of
the earth. 1t embraces an area of 2, $50, 900
square miles, exceeded in extent only by the
United States, Brazil and Russia, of the
civilized world. In nearly all respects it
resembles this country; first, in qualities
that nature gives ia fertile soil, richer
than any part of this continent, except
patches on the Pacific coast or the river bot
toms of the West; second, in healthy eli.
mate-not cold enough to cause suffering,
and not warm enough to enervate; third, in
productions-fne cotton and golden wheat,
producing 40 bushels of the latter to the
acre, and 70 pounds to the bushel; fourth,
in mines rich and exhaustless; fifth, in the
immense grazing region of the interior, COR
responding to the country bordering on the
Rocky Mountains; and, sixth, in an extensive
sea-coast with excellent harbors, fitting it for
the commerce just developing in the South
Pacific. In other respects it is like the
United States. The people are of the same
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from England, and
Celts from Scotland and Ireland, all cherish
ing the same freedom in religion and govern
ment. They have been too far removed from
Europe to fall under the shadows of the
monarchial and hierarchial institutions of
the old world; and left to themselves in a
new land, the people have cultivated personal
and local independence. There is not COM
munity in Europe so we'll prepared for Re-
publican Government to-day as the two mil
lions of Australia, who are increasing their
number with marvellous rapidly. Owing
to the extent of the country, they were
forced to form separate colonies, and so they
have their New South Wales, Southern
Australia, Western Australia, Victoria and
Queens, corresponding to the original colo
MES of North America. This will assist
them in the formation of republic that may
be lasting, by avoiding centralized govern
ment. Whenever Australia is old enough
and strong enough to go alone, it will clip
the strings that connect it to Europe without
trouble, as it is too far from the mother
country to ever feel the tramp of an invad-
ing army upon its soil. Indeed it is proba-
Bile that England would at once accede to
any proper terms Of its independence.
The other British Provinces of South
Pacific, whose destiny will be linked with
Australia are New Zealand, which is about
the size of New England, and has quarter
of a million people, and Tasmania, which is
three times as large as Massachusetts,, and
has over a hundred thousand people. Com
bined, the total population is abont the same
as was the British population of the colonies
of North America in ITS.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03
The Bible Boy
By AUNT MARTHA.

Tommy Browns father had been dead for
two years. Before that, he had lived with
his papa and mamma in a pleasant house,
made cheerful with flowers and books, and,
best of an, cheerful aud loving hearts
After his father died, it was found that
they were left very poor; and, although his
mother sewed from morning till night, they
were very soon obliged to leave their pretty
home, and, at the end of the year, were Ev-
ing in a little third-story room of an I'M
pleasant old house. Here his mother stitched,
stitehed, stitched, all day long, at the same
time trying to amuse and teach her little
boy.
The best book in the world to her was
Gods own book; and she wanted her little
Tommy to love it too. So every morning
she taught him a few verses, explaining them
so pleasantly that he soon became much in
terested to learn whole chapters by himself.
Tommy had never been to the Sabbath
School; for it was too far away, and his
boots were too much worn. But kind
gentleman had lately started mission school
near by, and Tommy was very happy when
his mother promised that he should 20 to
the school on his eighth birthday, which
would be the next Sabbath.
Il seemed great while to wait; but the
day came at last and, although he had had
no presents, Tommy set out with a light
heart for the school, with his little red Testa.
ment in his hand. lie trembled little as
he went up the steps; but pleasant gentle
man met him at the door, and gave him a
place in a class with four other boys.
At first they sang beautiful little hymn,
which delighted Tommy Then his teacher
talked very kindly to the class for few
minutes, and, after singing again, said he
was going to ask them some curious ques-
tOns; and that the one who gave the best
answer should have the new Bible which he
held in his hand.
The first question was this: "Who can
name the strongest man Z!
One said, Il think Uncle Daniel is the
strongest man in the world; for he can hold
out straiykt dumb-bell that my father can t
lift.
Samson was thesuOngest man, Of course, "
said Johnny Ray, looking at the first speaker
eontemptuOusly.
"And what say you, Tommy"
81 think, sir, the righteous man is the
strongest man; for he can do all things
through Christ, which strengthened him. -
IS Very good. Now, tell NE what is the
sweetest thing in the world.