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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

Mr.. George A. L. Merrifeld, formerly Of
Waterville, now in the pension Office at
Washington, and who was recently promoted,
is now spending few days with his friends
in Watervlle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
Sudden Death.

Bangor, 25. Thos. Gallagher, laborer
was found dead in his bed at Mattawamkeag
this morning. Cause unknown, but supposed
to be disease of the heart. He leaves fam
lily in this city,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

A. w. Smith of Richmond, one of the SUI
ferers by the late fire, has commenced on a
large three story store, to be finished in mod
ern style.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

Henry A. Crowell, formerly of the firm OF
Woodcock & Crowell, tailors in Gardiner,
died on Monday of last week at the home OF
his sister in Waldoboro.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

monstrous freight train of thirty-six cars
of general merchandise and cattle, drawn by
two locomotives, passed over the road to the
west yesterday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
Murder..

Austin, Texas, %. Custom Inspector
Mclaughlin was murdered yesterday near
San Antonio, for having ordered the seizure
of mules struggled from Mexico.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

The foundation of the Richmond Shoe Fac
tory building is completed and work was com
menced yesterday on the superstructure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

Rev. Mr.. Bryant of East Winthrop is now
enjoying his vacation season. He prefers to
labor through the warm weather and rest in
the cool and bracing months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
Railroad Accident.

Boston, %. Charles Pierson, employee
on the Eastern Railroad, was killed while
carelessly walking on the track, Saturday
night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

The auction sale of second hand stoves will
take place at the State House to-day. Many
of the stoves to be sold are as good as new.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

A letter came to this office yesterday adj
dressed to the "EDter of the Cenebec formal"
The contents of the envelope will be found
in our advertising columns under the heading
"Notiss."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

A bunch of keys has been found by City
Marshal Harrington, which the owner car
have by calling at this office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

This is the week of the annual show and
fair of the old Kennebec Agricultural Society
at Readfeld.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

FELLOWS COMPOUND OF HYPoPHosPHITEs
is an excellent nervous tonic. 1t exerts d.
rect influence on the nervous system, and
through it it invigorates the body. lit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

The Good Templars will hold a regular
meeting this evening in Darby Hall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
local ann State Mems.

Walker Blaine was in London on the 9Th
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
PROBABILITIES.

PROBABILITIES.
Cloudiness will probably extend very gen.
orally ON Tuesday along entire Atlantic coast
and on lower lakes with light rains in some
localities as Virginia and Lake Erie. Rising
barometer with clearing weather and falling
temperature from Michigan and Lake Supe-
rior westward and southwark to Gulf.
No predictions have been issued from this
Office respecting tidal wave nor is there any
such wave anticipated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
DieG.

In this city, Is tn inst, F. E. son ofJohu and Oc-
tava Perham. aged years.
In Machiasport, goth inst, Charles H. Beverly,
aged Is years.
In PASSPORT, 18th inst, Timothy McGrath, aged
IS years.
In Pembroke 9th inst, Mrs. Sarah Everett, aged
- years, months.
In Portland, 23d inst, Mrs Abigail Horton aged
50 years and months 2lst inst, Mr. John Creseey,
aged s6 years month; Sd inst, Gerty youngest
child OF X. &. and Addie p. Hall, aged months
20 days; 2ith lnst Mary S. Hlborn wife OF Ira
HiboTn, aged Is years 10 months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

The subscriber, u retiring from the firm. would
commend his late partner, Mr.. Hall, to the good
will and patronage of his old customers and the
public. j. "A. RICHARDS,
sep20tlW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
Dissolution of Copartnership.

'INHE copartnership heretofore existing under the
Il firm of RICHARDS 4 HALL has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent. The business here
after viii be conducted by Henry A. Hail. at the old
settle all demands against the firm and to collect
all uepts que the same. J. A. RICHARDS,
H. A. HALL.
Augusta, Sept. 10, 1871.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26
The Weather.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.
WAsHINGToN, Sept. 25.-1 P. Nj.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
State and Terri.
state and Terri

The following is a comparative state
ment from the several general sources OF
revenue: From Sept 1, 1867, to Feb, %,
1869: Spirits, $14,678, 68434; tobacco,
| $780, 1880; fermonted liquors, IS,
549,46t.9 3 gross receipts, $9,455, 5000 ;
sales, $9630,962 95 income, including
salaries, 81 ,9S0,259 banks and bankers,
| 1890, 319.10: special taxes, $40, 994 ,425.-
20; legacies, $2,094,36789 SUGGESTIONS,
ST, 1885,, 607 90 articles in schedule Ash,
OBJ ,5S2.6S; passports, $31 ,634; gas, 5000,
933 81; articles now exempt from tax,
$50, 1886, 310.03; penalties, 1868, 775.8S;
adhesive stamps, $22, 1888, S42.06; total
from all sources, $241, 82076 90. From
March 1,1S69,to Aug. 1, 1870, IS months
Spirits, $82,41z419S5 tobacco, $46,504,
065 Ga ;fermented liquors, SIC, 054, 036.4l I;
gross receipts, 139,078, 1921; sales,
$12,866, 10000; income, including, sal
aries $68074, 774,77 .32; banks and
bankers, $6.973, 919.89; special
taxes, $17,185, 16842; legaces, $3,437,-
S42.7O !; SUGGESTIONS, $2,16G,O23.50; arti-
Giles in schedule A, $1,714,98674; pass
ports, $37, 1876; gas, $3,437045.50; arti-
cles now exempt from tax, $1,019,293.-
90; penalties, 1922. 93441; adhesive
stamps, $50 1896, 39663 total from all
sources, $291, 491, 82701.
From this statement, it will be seen
that the gross receipts from all sources of
internal revenue for the first 18 months of
the present administration compared with
the late Administrator, are increased
to the amount of $49672, 061.09; and, ia
king the same sources of revenue the ex
cess during the same period of compari.
son in favor of the present Administra-
tion, amounts to the sum Of $101 1885, 07713
The plan of organization of this bu
reau,detailed in my former report, has
been successfully carried out for the past
year 1t has improved the service sys-
tented the public business, and tighten
the labors of its officers and employees.
The Commissioner concludes his re
port by saying that, il relinquishing the
Office, he has the satisfaction of knowing
that its affairs are left in most satsfac-
tory condition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
CHRISTMAS MORN

Christmas morn what shouts Of pleasur
Usher in the dawning light
What store of hidden treasure
Bursts upon the raptured sight
All the air pulsGtes with gladness;
ChlIdren's voices, full ofglee,
Ring out joyful care and sadness
From each happy kear5h -stone fee.
Earth, with grateful exultation,
Gree.s this blest and hallowed day,
And throughout each Christian nation
Earnest men rejoice and pray.
All what memories, solemn, tender,
Cluster round the Sayior's birth
All what visions, full ofsplendor,
Lift our thoughts away from earth
Love and Faith, serenely smiling,
Beckon us from distant skies,
HeaVenward our souls beguiling
Where the angels anthems rise;
Hopes divine our pathway brighten,
Scatter clouds of sin and woe,
Every heavy burden tighten,
Sweet content and peace bestoW.
Let us, then, with merry voices,
Celebrate this blessed day;
Nature, too, with us rejoices,
All the world is bright and gay;
And the angel choirs are singing
Far beyond our mortal ken,
While the Christmas chimes are ringing,
Peace on earth, good will to men"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
IT NEVER PAYS.

1t never pays to fret and growl
When Fortune seems our foe
The better bred will push ahead
And strike the Drawer blow.
For luck is work,
And those who shirk
Should not lament their doom,
But yield the play,
Aud clear the way
That better men have room.
1t never pays to wreck the health
In drudglag after gain,
And he is sold who thinks that gold
Is cheapest bought with pain
An humble lot,
A cosy cot,
Have tempted even kings.
For station high,
That wealth will buy,
Not oft contentment brings.
1t never pays blunt refrain
Well worthy Of a song,
For age and youth must learn this truth
That nothing pays that's wrong.
The good and pure
Alone are sure
To bring prolonged success,
While what is right
In Heavens sight,
Is always sure to bless.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05

AN AMERICAN PEACE,
an American has been canonized in Chi
ma for leading the Imperial army to VIC
tory against the rebels, and after other
Americans have entered the service of
Egypt and made its armies effective, it is
not strange that another Of our fellow
citizens is preserving the peace Of Peru.
Harry Meigs, this last adYenturer, uses
the arts of peace, however, and by his
extensive railroad undertakings, does
more to keep the country quiet than any
other man in it, by giving employment to
the lowers classes. That, with good
wages and prompt pay, makes them little
inclined to fighting on no pay and find
themselves. A private letter from Calloa
says that he has great number Of noted
revolutionistS under pay without any en-
ployment, except drawing their pay, "by
which means he keeps the country
quiet" any other condition would be
the death blow to his undertakings At
this time he is building road from this
place to cross the Andes at cost of sixty
For two years he has maintain.
ed peace, and although that is the aver.
age duration of that blessing in Peru. so
NAA'sS WV vi ~ IcTOIuCIOn DEQIH
to be heard, it is to be hoped that he win
succeed in completing his projects, which
will accomplish much in perpetuating the
tranquility in which alone the country
can prosper.
OF the man undertaking these great
things, correspondent writes: "This
Harry Meigs, you will remember, was one
OF the most enterprising residents of Cal
ifornia. He built blocks of houses, ships,
railroads, until embarrassed by some I'm.
expected losses, he suddenly took his de.
parture. The places that knew him once
knew him no more to their sorrow. AS
suddenly he loomed up in South America.
the mighty proprietor of stupendous en-.
terprises, and what was the best of eli. he
sent heavy remittanees to California. dis.
charging every obligation, with interest
and often an advance. This proved him
an honorable as well as great man. and
the adroitness with which he has secured
the interruption of hostilities in and
about Calloa, gives him much credit for
generalship.".
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
POETRY.
HOW TO WOO AND WIN.
BY JOHN @. SAKE.

BY JOHN G. SAKE.
Would you play the manly lover"
Said a gray-beard to his son,
sList, my lad, while l discover
How q maiden should bs won.
s. Woo her not with boastful phrases,
Lest you teach her lips to snecr;
Still suitOr's warmeSt praises
In his conduct should appear.
III.
"Woo her not with senseless signing
Maidens love a laughing eye;
Tell her not that you are dying
Lest she, mocking, bid you die
".
"Woo her not with weakly whining
O'er your poverty of pelt,
Lest she answer by declining
Both your sorrows-and yourself!
"Woo her with manly Woolng;
Giving hostages TO Fate,
All the hearts devotion showing
By its strength to work and wait.
VI.
Woo her not with idle prattle
Whom you lain would make your wife !;
But with proofs that in iife's battle
You are equal 10 the strife.
VII.
"Like the knight whose simple suing
Won the lady (says the tale),
When despite their wordy wooing
All the rest were doomed to fail
VIII.
"Lady 2 quoth the bold Knight Errant
Brief the story shall tell;
would wed thee-here's the warrant
| shall love and serve thee well J"
TX.
And behold his dexter fingers
Crush horseshoe like reed
And within her lap there fingers
All the gold the twain can need !"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05

WdShstgt0n (Dec. ~ correspondence OF tn
Journal Of Commerce.
The following interegting letter from
Treasurer Spinner to Mr. Biddle, we'll
known English banker in Australia, ex
plains itself:
, TREASURY OF, THE UNITED STATES,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 10. {
DEAR SIR: Your two esteemed letters
of the 10th and Of the 18th days of June
1876, lwith a number of valued tables, all
reached me by the same mail on the 18th
day of September last.
An answer was purposely delayed, to
the end that might be able to send you
with my address the public documents in
regard to the payments that have been
on the public debt of the United States.
| now have the pleasure of sending to
your address, with this letter, through
the State Department, copy of my
annual report to the Secretary
of the Treasury, and a copy of
that officers report to the Congress of
the United States /; both being for the
fiscal year ending June so, 1870, but each
bringing forward some statements being
for March 1, 1869, July 1, 1869, July /,
1870, and December 1, 1870. These par,
ticular statements were chosen because
the four months from March 1 to July /,
1859, comprise one-third of the fiscal fear
preceding the last one. The term from
July 1, 1869, to July l, 1870, constitutes
the entire fiscal year for which the reports
were written, and the five months from
July to December /, 1870, belong to the
current fiscal year, which will end June
80, 1871.
The whole time intervening between
March 1, 1859 and December 1, 1870, be-
ing one and three-quarters of year, is,
with the exception of the first four days
of March, 1859, in the official term of the
present administration.
The following tables exhibit the amount
Of the public debt of the United States
at the beginning and at the end of each
of the three terms of time as above stated,
and as appears by the accompanying
monthly debt statements And the fourth
table shows the amount remaining unpaid
at the beginning and at the end of the en-
tire term of twenty-one months, ending
with the Both of November, 1870. Each o.
the statements shows the total reduction
during each term respectively, snd thu
average amount of such reduction PEI
month and per day respectively, il
dollars and cents, and for your con
venience, the average daily reduction TO
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
THE ANGEL-WATcH; OR, THR SISTERS
BY CHARLES SWAIN


4 daughter watched at mid of night.
Her dying mothers bed
For five long nights she had not ,lept,
And many tears were shed.
A vision like an angel came,
Which noIe but she might see;
"Sleep, duteoas child" the angel said.
"And VIII watch for thee ~
Sweet slumber like blessing fell
Upon the daughters face
The angel smiled, and touched her not,
But gently took her place.
And oh, SO full ofhumds love
Those plying eyes did shine,
The angel-guest half mortal seemed
The slumber'r. half divine.
Like rays of light, the sleeper's locks,
In warm, loose curls were thrown;
Like rays of light, the angels hair,
Seemed like the sleeper's own;
Arose-like shadow on the cheek,
DlsGolving into pearl
A something in that angels face
Seemed sister to the girl
The mortal and immortal, each
Rejecting each, were seen:
The earthly and the spiritual
With deaths pale face between.
Oh, human love what strength like thine
From thee those prayers arise
Which, entering into Paradise,
Draw angels from the skies.
The dawn look ed through the easement cold
A wintry dawn OF gloom
And sadder showed the curtains bed.
The still and sickly room.
my daughter, art thou here, nv child,
o, haste thee, love, come nigh,
That may see once more thy face,
And bless thee ere die.
II ever were harsh to thee,
Forgive me now" she cried
"God knows my hearth loved thee most
When most seemed to chide.
Now bend and kiss thy mothers lips,
And for her spirit pray !"
The angel kissed her and her soul
Passed blissfully away.
A sudden start what dream, what sound
The slumberirg girl alarmss
She wakes-she sees her mother dead
Within the angels arms
She Wakes-she springs with wild embrace
But nothing there appears,
Except her mothers sweet, dead face
Her own conyulsivc tears.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05

The PRESIDENT AND CHIEF JUSTICE
SUED-Suit has been brought in the
Court of the District of Columbia against
President Grant, Chief Justice Chase,
Mayor Emory and others in their capaci,
ty as Trustees of the Metropolitan
Church of Washington, to secure payment
for materials used in the construction OF
the building. This is the first time the
name of President has appeared as a
party to civil suit ON docket of this
court.
A letter from Pekin, to an English
journal, says that the Chinese rebellion
promises to last seven years. The rebels
now outnumber the Imperial troops
They strip the country as they go, and
have way of forcing every able-bodied
men to join them, If he refuses. they
knock him on the head, roast and eat him
and his soul goes marching on to aid
Mu-Fu-Chau in overcoming tie hosts O.
Ma-Moo-Long
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05

RIPE FRUIT IN SITTING RooMs.-We
should be chary of keeping ripe fruit in
our sitting rooms, and especially beware
of laying it about sick chamber for any
length of time. The complaint which
some people make of faint sensation in
the presence of fruit, is not fanciful !;
they may be really affected by it, for two
continental chemists have shown that
from the moment of plucking, apples,
cherries, currants, and other fruits, are
subject to incessant Transformation. At
first they absorb oxygen, thus robbing
the surrounding air of its vital element !;
they then evolve carbonic acid, and this
in far greater volume than the pure gas
absorbed, so that we have poison given
US, in the place of pure air, with COM
pound interest, warmth accelerating it
Good Health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
To MAKE OLD KIN G1,ovys NJ,

Old MD GLOVES MN
Maze thick mucilage by boiling
handful OF max seed add little dissolv-
ed soap then when the mixture cools,
with piece of white flannel wipe the
gloves previously fitted to the hand using
only enough of the cleaner to take OF the
dirt, without voting through the glove
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
the year ending June 30th, 1870, were as

the year ending June Goth, 1870 were as
follows:
1872 0s1 .4s gallons OF distilled spirits val
ued S1,03SS4O "a
ed 69647 %
81. 1850 pounds of snuff, valued at. 1862 q
l710,69 ii pounds of tobacco, valued at 2840I Il
40O0SU5 cigars, valued at.............. 110296 40
Miscellaneous property, valued at...... 1sss4l4 IL
Total value Of seizures. s8,8g587I 80
On the subject of seizure and disposi
ton of property for violation of the rev
enue laws, Mr.. Delano suggests that the
act of July Is, 1866, be so amended as to
make its provisions applicable to proper
ty forfeited under any of the internal rev
enue laws. The limit in the value of the
property seized should be extended from
$500 to $500, and the expenses Of seizure
and custody should be provided as well
as those of apprai,ement and sale
The following is an estimate of the an
nual receipts in each State and Territory
from internal taxation after the act Of
July IA, 1870, shall be in full force:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05

Chickens are the medium of financial
exchange in the rural districts Of Georgia
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
LETTER FROM GEN. spINNER.

LETTER FROM GEN. SPINNER.
Washington Dec 22) Correspondence of tn
Journal Of Commerce.
The following interegting letter from
Treasurer Spinner to Mr.. Biddle, we'll
known English banker in Australia, ex
plains itself:
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-07
RosTON & ALBANY RAILROAD


n SUMNER i ARRANGEMENT, commencing on MON
DAY, May l5 ISL.
PASSENGER TRAINS leave Worcester:
Sog session, 81 20 exp 4 925 exp and 945 M, and
LII, 80 exp, S55 exp, 600and 9.55 exp. pm.
= Inc 4.z0 m, and >, 355 and 955 m trains start
H3, iOWeri all others from the upper station.
FOR Grafton, Westboro'. Southvilc, Cordavile and
Ashland al 100 and 9.45 a m l40 and 500 m
TOT south birmingham, APO, 100, 9.25 and g4i m
lao, 3.25, 3jj, 500 and 955 D m,
For Milford, 100 and g25 m lao 325 and 355 n m
FOR Natick, at 700 ana 4j a m, lao and 500 m
tor wellesley, Granville West Newton Newton
and brlghJoll, at lUO and 9.45 M and 800 M Pas,
sengers for the same stations also take the Lao m
tram which leaves Hatick twenty-seven minutes after
wards. wv
The APO train every day except MOI day; all
others every day except Sunday
Sunday express from Albany leaves the lower station
at S.35 a m for Bosom
sunday Mail leaves Lower Station at 23O A. NJ. CSion
day., Tor b.
TRAINS leave Boston as follows:
tot worcester at 800 700. s30eXp Q exp, m. 100
express 40 express to birmingham, aSj express 800
For New York, via Springfield 800 exp m, 500 oxr.
New York, via Norwich, SIC exp.pm
GRAFTON. 90 M, l.30, 4.3O II.
Westb0ro 100 m l30, $50 $50 exp IN.
SoulhVllle, 100 m, 100, 4.30 p N.
Cordaviue, 100 m I.30, 430 p m.
Ashland, 100 m, 100, 430 $50 exp. D m.
south birmingham $40, 100, $50 exp. and 900 eXp
II l.@9 80 exp 200 exp 4G0, 4.SO exp, 500, $50
katick 100 10 III, 80 2.l5 400 800 80 co. 5prn
Miibury, 100 a m, 1 80 p m.
Ssxonvile, 1000 a m, 500 pm.
Elnold ,.OO $50 exp 9eXp: am 2l5 exp. 43O exp pm.
All outward trains runs daily except Sunday.
sunday Mail leaves Boston at $50 M stoppiDp at W
newton, South birmingham. Worcester West BROOK
red Palmer and SPringGed, arrives in New York al
2SU = M Z. ., RI SSELL, Sup't, Springfield.
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