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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-19


ladies of the Free Baptist society, at Granite
Hall this evening, should assure a crowded
house. Scarcely ever have mere elaborate
preparations been made for an entertainment
of the kind in the city. Through the kind.
ness of a talented lady writer, an original
drama will be presented by company of
young folks, who have volunteered their SER
vices, and will bring out the drama in fine
style. And then Mrs. Jarley's wonderful
wax figures, that are SO much like life and
look so natural, cannot fail to create a decided
and uproarous sensation here as they have
elsewhere. Those who don't believe in
laughing had better not attend. Madame
farley, we are informed, is in most happy
frame of mind and has got her "wax fggers"
in perfect training Let all our friends help
good cause and suffer themselves TO be
greatly entertained by attending the levee
this evening.
Grand Reunion.
There is to be grand reunion in this city,
on New Years day, of the employees of the
old Portland & Kennebec and Maine Central
Railway. TIC { s,ivities will be held in Meo-
man Hall on the evening Of January LIST, and
will consist Of q banquet, toasts, speeches,
music, and grand ball. Cony Brothers
have been contracted with to provide the
supper, and Cony & Fales' Band will iurns h
the music. The following committees on
the entertainment have been appointed
On invitations-A. Hersey, c. II. kenison,
John Ellis, George p. Haskell, Jos. Hill, Jr.
Floor Manager-E. +. Beal.
On Dances--.Jaseph f. Robinson, !. W.
Clapp, c. Churchill.
Reception Committee-A. Hersey, c. IL.
kenison, John Ellis, Geo. +. Haskell, Jos.
Hill, Jr., d. a. Booker, B. L. Eaton, T. II.
On Toasts and Speeches.. II. Drum
mond, j. S. Gushing, and L. L. Lincoln.
Toast Master-J. II. Drummond
1t may be remembered that last year tie
Maine Central boys, with a generous impulse
and desire to .'bury the hatchet," that had
become useless, and worse than useless,
since consolidation, invited the employees OF
the Portland and kennebec Railroad to meet
them in a grand love feast at Watervillc.
The invitation was gladly accepted, and a
pleasant time enjoyed. To ''retaliate in
kind" the present entertainment has been
suggested; and we know from the character
of those having it in charge, that it will be an
affair every way worthy the great corporation
represented.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-19

Massachusetts Legislatnre-Extra Ses=
sion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-19

They are ready to show to the public one of the
greatest inventions OF American science,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-19
Thursday and Friday Evenings
Dec. 10 and 20.

They have provided the following entertainment
4 Retrospective and Allegorcal Drama, in TWO
scenes, written by lady OF this city, entitled
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Increased Consumption OF pean hts.

We take the following from an OK.
chance, which helps to fully illustrate
how profitable the smaller industries
of tho South are becoming. Where
lands are cheap and the climate mild,
there is scarcely limit to honest,
industrious effort in tho production
of articles that arc not considered of
much commercial Importance
There is hardly an article of Ameri.
can production, of apparently so little
note, that has grown so rapidly in
Importance as the peanut. Instead of
1000 there arc fully $4,000 bushels
sold annually in the city of New York
alone. Previous to 1860, tho total
product Of the United States did not
amount to more than $50, 900 bushels,
and Of this total, fully Rve-sixths
were from North Carolina. Now
North Carolina produces l25,OOO
bushels Virginia 100000 bushels ;
Tennessee $4,000 bushels Georgia
and South Carolina. each $4,000
bushels.
The sweet potato has heretofore
been produced in small quantities by
large planters, or just enough to salts
fly the homo demand. With new
process just invented, tho sweet pota-
to is destined to become an article
Of grent commercial Importance.
The home consumption will also be
largely increased, for by said process
the sweet potato is made into meal.
and ono gallon of syrup obtained
from each bushel. The sweet potato
is grown with rs little trouble as any
crop in the South.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
The Chief OF Detectives In Jaij.

At late hour yesterday after.
noon, Lieutenant Heidi, Commanding
the Detective force, was arrested on q
warrant Of Trial Justice A. NJ. Mao.
key, tho affidavit Of which was signed
by Primus Green, who alleged that the
Lieutenant had denied q prisoner
Gus Williams, food, aud that he was
suffering, &c. Lioutenant Heidi ap.
peared before the Trial Justice, who
demanded $4,000 bail. Tho latcness
of the hour prevented it's being fur.
nished soon enough and the Lieuten.
ant was committed to Jail. Proceed.
ings were then taken by Habeas Cor.
pus, but of no avail for the same rea-
son stated in connection with the
bail. The Haboas Corpus will be
heard to.day. Courier. ...
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
A Watch In q Mans Body.

A few days since wo published an
extract from one Of the Northern
papers In which it was stated that a
man was shot during the war and had
portion of silver pencil case and
gold pen driven into his body. A
portion of the latter has Just worked
out through his neck. The case an
pears singular. and may be doubted
by some, but there Is on the records
of surgery moro singular case, and
one in which the recovery of the
patient may be deemed miraculous.
1t was that gold watch being entire.
~ shattered and driven into q mans
body through the ribs and lungs, and
of the pioces being afterwards ex-
tracted or ejected and the recovery
of the patient. The gentleman who
survived this terrible injury is our
townsman r. Q. Drummond, ESQ,
and he is now alivo, and except the
disqualification from physically labor,
is apparently y we'll. On tho 9th of
January, l84l, he accid sntally shot
himself in the left side with a gun
loaded with shot, the whole charge
striking o gold watch in his pocket
md driving it into his body through
the lungs, breaking in its passage
several ribs. The watch was ef
course torn to pieces, and the frag-
ments scattered through tho body,
fortunately missing the heart. In
two weeks from the accident some of
the pieces were taken out, and at in.
tervals from that time for fifteen years
afterwards, when the last piece was
eJected from the mouth, after having
caused one hundred hemorrhages, by
a violent fit of coughing. In this
manner several pieces had previously
been removed, aud with the last MIR.
Drummond's health began to improve,
and he is now as we have stated, quite
we'll apparently. The wound 10 his
side has never healed entirely up, and
thero still remains an orifce of about
half an inch through which the breath
can be inhaled or expelled. A num-
ber Of the fragments of the broken
watch have been shown US by friend,
and arc still mute witnesses Of this
terrible aocident.-NoyfoM Virgin
Tan.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Radical "Free Spcecb."

Major Roberts, U. S. A., gives
notice that any person employed on
the works at Foulweather Lighthouse
"who shall speak disrespectfully, on
or off duty, of the President of the
United States or any member of the
Cabinet, or any superior officer of
the Government, will be Immediately
discharged" Any person who says
that President Grant takes bribes, or
that Secretary Fish bungled the
Alabamn Treaty, is incapable of chip.
ping stone or laying bricks but he
coutents himself with abusing the
Vice President. he may swear his 6ll
without fear of tho law or Major
Rohcrts Seriously, however, more
contemplate attempt to gag o body of
dependent workipgmen has not been
known under the Grant AdmiDistra.
tion. 1t is tho latest improvem cnt on
tho Radical plum of discharging any
person who does not vote the Radical
tioket.- Charleston News.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Chicamauga.

If thero are men who wero in nv
division ut Chican,auga and were
out on the left on that morning, they
will remember that fearful fight that
lasted three hours on that end of the
line, when the divisions of Baird and
johnson aud my own were resisting
one of the fercest attacks that I ever
witnessed in any battle during the
war. IF you visited that battlefield
afterwards, you will rem Der all the
trees were torn and marked with
bullets. If you observed that bloody
field, you saw that there were
hundreds of men lying dead upon it,
whilo more than thousand others
were wounded. Who led that charge
on the rebel side that day; who was
it who, when they were hurled back,
rallied them and threw them upon
us2 ["Longstrcet." Yes, Long
street and yet more than two years
ago he was appointed by Gen. Grant
to one Of the most valuable Offices in
his gift, Surveyor of New Orlea*s.
If General Grant can give q valuable
Office to Longstreet, who hurled upon
US those masses, and who when they
we're driven back, reformed them and
hurlod them upon us again, cannot you
forgive Horace Greeley for signing
Jeff Davis bail bond. rApplanse. |
From Governor Palmer's Great
Speech.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Tho Colofed Race Deceived by their Load
GeS.

The colored race need second
emancipation. It is true they are no
longer in personal bondage, but no
one can give an impartial survey to the
condition Of things In the Southern
Commonwealths, but especially in this
State, without being convinced that
they are in a complete and absolute
condition of political servitude. Thus
far they have been led like sheep to
the slaughter. They have fallen into
the hands of the unscrupulous and
adventurous, who have but little in
terest in the soil, and who have used
them as the nero instruments of their
own purposes. The trust and conf
denoe which they have placed in the
adventurer has been implicit. They
have been so led, that every appeal in
faith and sincerity, and with the pei
fect guarantee Of all their rights, to
act with tho white race of the soil,
has thus far, with some excep-
tions, been unheeded and diuregarded.
The mode in which they are thus
deceived can perhaps be no better
illustrated than the declarations made
recently to the colored mon, especial.
ly in the rural districts, that the OBJ.
ject of the Cincinnati platform is to
deprive the colored race of their
rights, and to abrogate the Constitu.
tional amendments. This of course
is false. But yet it was credited. It
is as clear attempt at imposition.
Those who utter these sentiments
know that their utteranocs are with
out foundation, and thus declare that
the colored race are ignorant enough
to believe anything they may say,
and unable to distinguish between the
wrong and the right.
1t is time that these should no lon.
ger follow blindly, the false leaders
of the past. The language of the
Cincinnati Convention, on these
points is plain and unmistakeble.
1t declares "We the Liberal Re.
publicans of the United States, in Ma
tional Convention assembled at Gin.
oinnati, proclaim the following prin-
ciple as esential to just government {:
"First. Wo recognize the equality
of all men before the law, and hold
that it is the duty of the Government,
in its dealings with the people, to
mete out equal and exact justice to all
of whatever nativity, race, color, or
persuasion, religious or political.
"Second. We pledge ourselves to
maintain the union of these States,
emancipation and enfranchisement,
and to oppose any re-opening of the
questions settled by the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments of the CONSTITUTIONAL Char.
Courier.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Surgical Operation.

A very important and difficult sur.
gical operation was performed in San
Antonio, by DR.. Heriff, on Friday
last on the person Of girl about
eleven years of ago, brought from tho
Brazos' The, child Was disBgured
from her birth on one of her checks.
by singular pieSe Of flesh, which
occupied some three or four
square inches, and whioh was covered
completely with stiff bristles, the roots
penetrating to the cheek bono, and
seep IN tho flesh in the aperture di.
rectly below tho eye. The foul flesh
was removed entirely, and another
healthy piece, taken from below and
ent to ct th 3 wound, was turned and
brought up so as To-, whom healed,
preserve tho fgnre and beauty Of tho
face. AT last accounts tho little
girl was doing we'll. Demo oeyat;s
Isxas Slasesmah.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
In the Lions Jaw.

Lengcl, tho lion tanner, has been in
trouble again. This time it was ut
Portage Lake, Minn. He was at.
tackled by a young male lion while
performing in Gage also containine q
two lioncsses, bitten severely in the
calf of tho leg, and thrown down.
An account says:
.LengePs presence of mind did not
desert him. Tho lion, even in his
rage, could not forget tho power of
his fallen antagonist, and loosened
his hold for moment, and before
the lionesscs could gather for an at
tack the tamer was on his feet, seized
his whip and attacked his foe lashing
him into the corner. Leaving the
cage Lengel walked to his dressing
box, across the ring, where he sank
faint from the loss of blood. It was
found that no bones were broken, but
the wounds were so large and deep
that the surgeon who dressed them
probcd them with his finger and fail.
ed to touch the.end. Lcngel has been
five times before bitten by his pets,
and shows a SCARED body, but in
every case before his wounds have
been from lionesses. This, he thinks,
is the second case in which he has been
Intentionally bitten. the other four
being accidents, when in their snarl,
among themselves they havo seized
him by mistake.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
A Pleasant Placa.

Tho vicinity of Vera Cruz must be
o pleasant place, judging from this
descriptive passage in late letter
from Grace Greenwood "Here VIC
reveled in bloom and shade and fra
grancc hero We ate ripe cherries
from the trees and strawberries from
the vines. Here We rambled through
long avenues of apple md pear and
peach trees of noble growth, and past
flne vineyards aud raspberry and black.
berry plantations" Yet the writer
adds that in the fruit ranch thus de-
scribed there was not twenty years
ago q single specimen of vegetation,
save few stunted oak trees.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Popular Political Feeling.

Illinois is to have Liberal Repub.
lican State Convention onHthe 2Gth
instant, and New Jersey, on the Goth.
These movements will show tho
Greeley strength in those States and
tho full extent Of this strength il,
what the Democracy wish to know be
fore the question of supporting Gree.
ley can be determined.
Trumbull, Schurz and Gratz Brown
are reported to speak In the Illinois
convention.
Brooklyn has 5000 Liberal Re-
publicaus enrolled, and is adding to
the numbers daily.
In Florida four Republican news-
papers support Greeley four, Grant,
edited by postmastors three are un.
com mitted. All Of the Democratic
papers but one favor Greeley. This
one is uucommittod, awaiting Balti-
more.
The New York World is publish
ing the idea of substituting Adams
for Greeley at Baltimore.
j: r. Cravens, Grant electur, in
Indiana, is out for Greeley.
The New York Herald, which has
been very decidedly for Grant, says,
after reading tho proceedings Of the
late Democratic State Conventions !:
GLOW strange it will be, if it is to be,
that the stone which the builders have
so often rejected shall become tho
head of the corner ~
General Mcclellan is said to be
against Greeley.
The Louisville (Ky.) Democrats
have declared for Greeley.
The Washington Chronicle makes
the point that Greeley is ineligible, be-
cause ho cannot take the oath that
he has given no aid to the REBELLION.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Radical Cure.

Tho Marietta Journal tells this
story:
We had related to us few days
ago story how Northern Methodist,
preacher was PRACTICAL yacured of his
netgro equality proclivities. He was
travelling in an upper county of Chero-
kec Georgia, and stopped at the end
OF q day to remain the night with q
farmer. He, a stranger, was kindly
and Hospitality received. At tho
supper table, this Northern guest very
earnestly and arduously advocated
negro equality-sa;d he thought ID
emiuently proper, socially and legal
ly right, for the negro to cat at q
white mans table, sleep on his beds
and and be entertained in his parlor.
The proprietor Of the house, a man
of Southern principles and birth, who
believes in tho superiority of the
white race, listened to the man in
silence, but evidently with heated in.
dignation. The supper was ovor, and
the hour of retiring had arrived, when
the proprietor of the house took down
his double.barrel shotgun, which was
heavily loaded, went to the back door.
called hired negro man big, buck
follow, and then usherod him in to the
bedroom of the Northern man and
told him there was his bed-fellow for
the night. The Northern man stub.
bornly refused ; the Southern man
insisted-told them both to turn in
tor the night or he would kill them.
He told the Northern man he had
advocated negro social equality, now
he had to practice it--that the dose
he wanted prepared for others should
first be taken by himself, to see how
it operated. And at the muzzle of tho
gun they slept together that night,
sweetly no doubt. Next morning the
Northerner rose and departed sadder
and wiser man.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
An Affecting Scene

In the United States District Ku.
Klux Court, now sitting in Mont
gomcry Ala, in the case of the
Youngs and Harkins, verdict of
guilty was returned, and Neil Har.
kins, Il. @. Young and John D.
Young wcre sentenced to ten years.
confinement in the Albany PeniteD-
tiary and $4,000 fine. Ringold
Young was sentenced to seven years
and $4,000 fine. The Advertis-
er gives tho following affecting in
cident connected with the trial
There was an affecting scene in the
United States Court when the dcfcn.
dants in the case Of the United State
vs. Young c! a., were called up for
sentence. The verdict had been rem.
dercd hardly fifteen minutes, when
the court inquired if the defendants
had anything to say why sentence
should not be awarded against them.
The old man Young, in a calm and
manly manner, free from braggadociv,
protested mis- innocence Of the charge,
but as he referred to his wife and
four daughters dependent upon him,
now sIxty"threo years Of ngc, his voice
was broken, and there was not in the
court room n manly heart but was
wrung with sorrow as tho picture
arose before thom Of this aged man 10
far off peuitentiary, and his now
widowed wife and helpless daughters
shelterness and friendless, driven from
their little home, which tho $4,000
fine will cause to DO sold, as we'll as
tho little scanty pittance which was
all this old man was enabled, aftor
life of toll, to save from the wreck
Of tho war.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Tho New Wheat Crep.

Tho Knoxville Press and Herald
snJs I: "r.le reports from all parts of
East Tennessee agree in representing
the present harvest Of wheat one Of
tho largest that has been gathered in
this eection Of the State, and the
quantity as fine as was ever grown on
the soil. There have been only few
transactions yet in this years product.
Mr.. p. NJ. Williams of this city, has
purchased for early delivery, say lst
Of July, o few choice crops st one dol.
lar and fifty cents per bushel. An
other large and very choice lot was
sold, delivery optional with producer
at 81 .55. This vas purchased fol
milling purposee."
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Robbed,

Nfr. s. NJ. Smart, a member Of tho
General Assembly from Fairfield
County, was tho victim of heavy
robbery Saturday, at his residence
near Ridgoway. The thief secured
and successfully got away with seven
hundred dollars Ia money, and a val.
liable gold watch. There was q pu%io
meeting in the vicinity at the time,
and it is probable that during this oos
casion the thief or thieves took advan.
tage Of it to enter the house and pick
the look of the trunk in which the
yaluablas had been placed for safe.
keeping .-- Col. Union.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Liability OF Stockholders Of Banks for
Outstanding Bills in South Carolina.

Judge Graham in the Court of
Common Pleas in Charleston county,
South Carolina, has given an olabor.
ate decision as to the liability Of
bank stock holders for outstanding
bills. The particular bank concerned
in the litigation is the Farmers and
Exchange Bank.
The Judge decided that the failure
of the bank occurred in 1860. when
it suspended specie payment. No bill
issued since then eau be recovered
from the stockholders. All who dealt
with the bank after its suspension did
so at their risk, aud have no claim On
the stockholders. All bills and notes
issued before the suspension, the
stockholders are liable for, to their
face value. The date Of tho bank
note has little or no weight in deter.
mining the date of its issue. The
Judge snys the presumption Of the
law is that the bills outstanding have
been issued since tho suspension and
therefore the burden of proof is on the
bill holder who claims an issue prior
to the suspension.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
An Avalanche IN Virginia.

On Saturday morning last, says the
Abingdon V:rginian, few hours Of.
ter the hurricane had passed along,
and just after heavy fall of rain, q
large portion of the north side of q
high and steep wooded knob in Rich
Valley, west of Smiths creek, near
the residence of Mr.. John Smith, shot
away FROM it's moorings, carry fog
with it immense trees, logs and rocks,
leaving ohasm from 20 to 80 feet
deep. At the base Of the hill stood
a log cabin occupied by an old colored
man by the name Of Jack, (who for.
merly belonged to DR.. Craig,) aud
bis family, which was entirely dc.
molishad, several large trees passed
over u, snd yet strange to say, not one
Of the family sustained sny serious
injury.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-03
Movement of tho Printers for Greeley.

The journeymen printers of Boston
and vicinity have inaugurated moveo
ment looking towards tho support and
election of Gre ley and Brown, which
they will labor to make general
among the members of tho craft
throughout tho country. It is thus
fur confined to the newspaper work.
men but tho idea is to embrace all
branches of the profession who desire
to see one of their number placed at
tho bead of the nation. At tho pre-
limiuary meeting, all the offices in
the CITY were represented, tho larg-
est~ number present from any single
establishment being from tbs office oil
a recently established and Radical
Grant organ.