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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-03-22
Town Elections.

On Monday the following towns made
choice of their officers for the ensuing year:
Sebago.-Clerk, S. H. Fitch; Selectmen
Assessors and Oyerseers of the Poor, w. w
Fitch, J. Fitch, j. c. Babb; Treasurer, S.
II. Fitch; S. S. Committee, +. l.. Pike, +.
l.. Poor, c. II. Mckinney. All republicans
except Poor and McKenney
Raymond. Moderator, Levi Jordan ;
Clerk, o. b. Lane; Selectmen and Assessors,
II. J. Lane, David Nash, Charles N. Wilson
Supervisor, George Sylvester; Collector,
Jordan Brown.
Whitefed. Moderator, L. Choate, ID;
Selectmen,'J. NJ. Carleton, John Ryan, Il.
A. Ware; Clerk, J. w. Tarr; Treasurer,
Jas. +. Morse; S. S. Committee, X. S. Part
ridge; Auditors, VIM. +. Carleton and X. S.
Partridge.
Dresden.-M Moderator, John Beedle Clerk
II. NJ. Call; Selectmen, etc, Ii. NJ. Call, A.
j. Reed, Thomas Hatch; Constable and Col
lector, Asa Myers; Treasurer, II. NJ. Call
Supervisor of schools, II. G. Allen.
Observation-Disclosures, l.. Lombard Clerk,
{. ii. Allen; Selectmen, etc, Il. G.. Good
win, B. f. Field, Cyrus Bradbury; Consta-
Bile and Collector, Cyrus Bradbury; Treas
urer and Agent, l.. Lombard Supervisor OF
Schools, DIR. ID. Z. Stowell
and keeps so from year to year. Politics are
ignored in their town elections for municipal
officers. The officers elected the 4th inst.
were John Stockbridge, Moderator; j. w.
Staples, Clerk; c. Wasgatt Treasurer; S.
Barbour, b. Smith, Jr., John Stockbridge
Assessors; C. Wasgatt, b. Joyce, c. II
Joyce, School Committee. Voted $415 fol
schools. Funds in the Treasury 81, 03S.
Orland.- Moderator, j. S. Condor; Sc
lectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the
Poor, Ii. pinkham, a. z. Door, J. A. Har-
riman; Collector, Elijah Partrdge; Treas
urer, Geo. g. Powers; Town Agent and Au-
ditor, a. z. Emerson; Town Clerk, G. y.
Emerson.
Hancock. Moderator, Il. II. b. Moor
Clerk, +. l.. Stratton; Selectmen, Assessors
and Overseers of Poor, Samuel Stratton, T..
l.. Stratton and Warren Stratton; S. S.
Committee, Z. g. Wooster; Collector and
Constable, Lewis Springer.
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NEWS BY MAIL.

The Tichborne claimant failed to obtain
bail on the charge of perjury.
The republicans have carried Burlington,
n. j., and elected the mayor and all other
municipal officers.
Sebastopol, by an imperial decree, is re-
opened as commercial and military harbor,
with the Notifications restored
Thomas Gomerzero has been chosen presi-
dent of the senate of Uruguay. He assumes
the presidency of the republic until popu.
lar election.
The contest for United States Senator in
the New Hampshire Legislature, which meets
in June, promises to be exceedingly active.
Eleven candidates are mentioned, the last of
whom is Onslow Stearns
The Rhode Island democratic State con-
vention was held in Providence Wednesday.
Olney Arnold of North Providence was NOM
mated for governor, and Charles II. Cutler
OF Warren for lieutenant governor. Dele
gates to the democratic national convention
were selected. No resolutions were adopted.
In the Senate Wednesday, the Chicago re-
lief bill-that reported from the finance COM
mittee-was passed. A bill was reported to
confirm the sales of Shawnee Indian lands in
Kansas. The tariff bill was discussed with
out action. In the House the bills relative
to the construction of bridges across the Ohio
River and authorizing the building of bridge
across the Mississippi, at Clinton, Iowa,
were passed A bill was reported for the
appointment of commissioners to superintend
the shipping and discharge of seamen on
American merchant ships and for the further
protection of seamen. The bill for the re-
organization of the civil service, special
order Of the day, was postponed for four
weeks. The post office appropriation bill
was considered in committee of the whole,
and the amendment making the Pacific mail
service semi-monthly and the compensation
81 900, 900 was rejected. The bill was sub-
sequently reported to the House and passed.
In the Senate Tuesday, the bill to pay
$1,000 prize money TO the officers and
crew of the Kearsarge for the destruction of
the Alabama was passed. A bill to reimburse
marshals for expenses in taking the ninth
census was reported. The Chicago relief
bill was considered and the substitute pro-
posed by the finance committee agreed to.
A final vote will be taken to-day. In the
House a resolution was adopted calling upon
the President for information relative to the
case of DR.. j. L. Howard, a citizen of the
United States, who has been transported by
the Spanish authorities in Cuba TO penal
settlement in Africa. The bill providing for
the publication of reports OF congressional
proceedings was passed. The Judiciary COM
mittee was directed to investigate the charges
against Mark Ii. Delabay, district judge for
Kansas. Consideration of the bill to carry
into effect the provisions Of the Washington
treaty was postponed for four weeks. The
committee OF ways and means was instructed
to consider the eXpediencv of making the
fiscal year begin January |. The Pacific
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Aston House, was stabbed in the abdomen
early this morning in Chatham street, by
George Hughes car conductor, residing in
Jersey City, who was arrested. Waters was
seriously though not dangerously injured.
The case resembles the Rogers murder as
the injured man was approached by two men,
one of whom entreated the other to refrain
from killing.
y committee of the Produce Exchange
recommend the purchase of their present
building for 500 600.
That historic landmark the Roosevelt man
sion, at the corner of Broadway and Union
square, Is being transferred into ware rooms
tor the Domestic Sewing Machine Company,
VINO VIII soon take possession.
The Hartford & New Haven Railroad has
declared quarterly dividend of So per share
full stock and 81 80 on each share of scrip
stock, payable April first
There were IS new case of small! pox and
deaths to-day.
a post mortem shows that Mrs. O'Shaugh-
messy died from congestion of the lungs
though probably accelerated by inhaling
gas.
4 bill was reported in the assembly to-day
diSPlacinE the superintendent of buildings,
NcGregog.
The Staten Island Ferry Company has re-
solved to appeal the Maiden suit and a bond
has been fled to await the result Of the APP
peal.
An organization called the Brooklyn vocal
society has been formed to take part in the
Boston Peace Jubilee.
Three more eases Of spinal meningitis
have appeared in Brooklyn.
Cromwell Andrews Methodist clergyman
and has his wife Of Jersey City have been ac-
quilted Of the charge Of brutal ill-treatmcnt
OF Mary Mclaughlin, chilled of eight years
taken into their service from Randalls ISL
and.
The Post says that Elias has organized Il
swindling gift enterprise for the relief of
Chicago and Northwestern sufferers. Each
ticket entities the holder to a reserved seat at
concert to he given April I, and q chance
i'll lottery OF 10000 prizes.
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IMMEpIArELY.-If every family knew Il

IMMEpIATELY.-If every family knew the
value of Miss Sawyer's Salve, they would i'm
medately purchase box and never be with
out it. If your Druggist is out of this Salye
and neglects to keep supplied, send seventy
five cents as directed in another column, and
say you saw the advertisement in this paper.
Not among the least of the invaluable prop
critics of Miss SAwYER's SALvE are its bene-
fetal effects on the hair. Rubbed on the
scalp in five or six different parts it promotes
the growth of the hair, prevents its turning
gray, and on bald spots, it produces a new
growth of hair. No lady should be without
this invaluable article as an indispensable
cosmetic for the toilet. 1t eradicates dandrutl
and disease from the head, and blotches and
and pimples from the face. TIT
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The following divorces were dccreed at the
recent session Of tie Supreme Judicial Court
in this city;
Nancy T.. Stafford, Augusta, from YIN. H.
II. Stafford, for neglecting to provide for his
wife and child, and desertion; Nesta Ann
Webster, Gardiner, from Richard L. Webster,
for deserton and neglect to support; Free
love Doe, Augusta, from Henry ID. Doe, for
same cause; Almeda I. Taylor, Augusta
from James II. Taylor, for adultery and cruel
treatment; Orrissa \. Hatch, Augusta, from
Eugene i. Hatch, for deserton and ne glect to
support; katherine /. Bolton, Augusta, from
VIM. Il. Bolton, for drunkenness and i'll
treatment; Lydia +. Ramsdell Readfield,
from Henry +. Ramsdell, for personal vio-
lence and abuse; Laura 5. Smith, Lewiston,
from Orcn Smith, for cruel and abusive treat
ment and neglec, to provide; Mary F. San
born, Augusta, from John ID. Sanborn, for
intemperance and abuse; Dorothy Ann Har-
vey, Readlield, from VIM. Harvey, for IL SER
ton for seventeen years.
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Hon. VIM. Whiting, l.. L. D., Of Boston,
has been engaged to deliver the Grafton be-
fore the combined Literary Societies of Colby
University at the coming Commencement.
Mr.. Whiting will be remembered as the legal
adviser of President Lincoln during the late
war, as well as the author of the ''NNar Pow
ers of the President" the fortieth edition of
which has just been published. He is now
one of the leading lawyers of Boston. The
students may think themselves fortunate in
obtaining such man, for he always has some
thing to say and knows how to say it.
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EUROPEAN NEWS.

London, u. In the House of Commons
to-day, Mr.. Gladstone in reply to the ques-
ton of Mr.. Towers, stated that since the
conclusion Of the treaty Of Washington a
correspondence had been going On in regard
to its provisions as they affected Canada, be-
tween the Colonial Secretary and the Gov
ernor General of the Don MON; that the
correspondence WAS yet in ompleted aud it
would be impossil lie to produce 1t at present.
Mr.. Cardwell, secretary of war, announced
that the annual review would take place at
Brighton.
The Duke of Argyle, Secretary for India,
has presented to the city of Chicago works on
the history Of the people, products, laws,
medical practice, &C., India.
The report that the University boat has
fallen through in consequence of the with
drawal OF the Oxf0Id crew is not confirmed.
The University of Cambridge has made a
donation to Chicago of a valuable series OF
books published by the University printing
office.
Paris, o. Emit the Communist incendi-
airy and seven of tie murderers of the Rice
liaXo have been convicted and condemned to
DEATH Many other Communists pronounced
guilty Of similar crimes have been sentenced
to transportation.
Rome, y. The chamber of deputies to-
day adopted a resolution of confidence in the
ministry-239 to II.
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naugbt farm, Manchester, have sold to Mass.
achusetts parties three stations, viz: Fear.
| naugbt, Jr., Dreadnausht and Bow Fear.
naught, formerly B. s. Wright, the purchase
money amounting to the handsome aggregate
sum of $4,000. This is the largest, and
probably the most remunerative transaction
in horse-fesh ever know in Maine, furnish.
ing most convincing testimony to the superb
or value of this magnificent breed of animals.
and illustrating very forcibly the utility and
profit of the business in which these gantIe-
men are engaged. Accessons will be made
to the Fearnaught farm stud the ensuing sea-
SOD, including in addition to the young stall
lion Carenaught, sired by Old Fearnaugbt,
which will still be kept for service, several
animals of Hambletonan and Mambrino
lineage, whose records when published will
prove worthy of their illustrious parentage.
The Argus is informed that Mr. Charles
Clement, native of Belgrade Mills. in this
State, was accidentally shot at Fort Scott,
Kansas, on the 2Sth ofslast month. He and
two others had been out on buffalo hunt,
and had returned TO their cabin. Clement
and one of his companions were sitting on the
side of the bed, examining their rifles, the
muzzle of his companions gun being within
about foot of Clements side. In STOPPING
forward to pick something up from the floor
'.iS iiiO y" a. uioCLdiSSus tHc Uuiet cHtSilHB
Clements side and passing through his body
Just below the heart, killing him almost in
stanly. Mr.. Clement was % years of age,
and but recently went West He was a
nephew of Mr.. Henry Perry of the firm of
Ford Perry of Portland and was quite we'll
known, in some parts of Kennebec county.
A most gratifying temperance reform move
ment has sprung up along the Kennebec,
particularly in Augusta and Gardiner--a
movement among men of standing and nflu-
ence, part of whom have hitherto been
more or less addicted to the use of alcoholic
beverages and all more or less unfriendly to
temperance reform. If the parties whose
names we see in connection with the move
ment in Augusta will not grow weary in we'll
doing, they have inaugurated reform that
will do more than battalion of police to
enforce laws without their aid. When the
sentiment of the intelligent and influential
part Of the community is against the rum
traffic, the law will enforce tself.-Portland
Press.
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James Taylor's Comique Opera Company
will appear at Granite Hall Saturday evening,
for one nj gilt only. Mr.. Taylor is well known
as the ''London Comique," and has gained a
good reputation as comedian and vocalist,
Mr. j. ID. Kelley, the musicu genius, has APP
peared in this city, and his skill on great
variety of instruments has obtained a wide
recognition. Miss Ada Alexander, in her
serio- comic songs, and Miss Kate Biddell, in
her marvellous mid-ar suspension, will give
pleasing variety and interest to the perform
ance, which will no doubt be worthy of 4 lib
eral patronage.
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STATE NEWS.

\ correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
states that on Saturday last as John +. jack
son Of Winthrop, was driving one Of his fine
horses, Nhen passing near the Winthrop
House, MIR. Wheeling r. Bessee, an elderly
man, very deaf, did not or could not get out
of the way, and was run over, and much
hurt.
| The taxable value of the ice houses in
Dresden is about $4,000.
Mr.. Geo F. Fairbanks of Winthrop, has
sold his valuable colt for the round sum of
| $50, to New York parties.
The wind was blowing at the rate of hun
bred and twenty miles an hour on Mount
Washington Wednesday morning.
The Norway National Bank has nearly all
its stock subscribed, (Sl00,000) and will
commence operations in few weeks.
The inaugural address of Hon. James d.
Robinson, Mayor of Bath, occupies thirty
four lines OF the Bath Times.
Nine divorces were decreed last week by
Judge Tapley at the term of the S. J. Court
at Paris, and one libel was dismissed.
L. T. Cotton & Co.'S steam mill at Brown
| field is now in operation, getting out a su-
perior article of slaves, planned and jointed.
| And now, on the 18th of March be it known
that we are fast bound in the icy bands of
winter, with from three to six feet of snow on
the ground, and the roads hard and white,
and no thaw.-Oxford Democrat
| Francis j. Parker of Lewiston, fell over
board from steamer Stonnington, from New
York, Monday night, while suffering from
sea sickness. The boats were promptly low
cred but the unfortunate man could not be
rescued.
| The Bangor Manufacturer has accepted the
charter granted by the last legislatureNnd
chosen committee to circulate among the
citizens for signatures, a petition to the City
pany may be exempted from taxation for term
of years.
There 10 drift of snow in Phillips, on the
road that is travelled over by teams every day,
that is between thirty and forty feet deep; at
any rate, it is judged to be that depth. One
man who came over it said it was as deep as
the roof of a barn, and thirty straddles from
the top down the level.
Col. James Dunning of Bangor, has in
vented a cover for beef and pork barrels,
which promises to be a very useful article.
1t is made of states and resting upon the
meat in the barrel keeps it always under the
brine.
Hon. Geo. P. Sewall informs the Bangor
Democrat that he once heard his grandfather
say, that, in l77G, Casco Bay was frozen over,
and mail carrier crossed on the ice, rom
/ Cape Small Point to Portland.
The Farmer states that within few months
past, Messrs. Wright & Norcross OF the FEAR
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We give the following extract, which is halt
in earnest and half in fun, from the letter vi
a snowed-up correspondent down in Presque
Isle, Aroostook county, dated the 18th
ave have had but one mail from Bangor
since March eth, and none from beyond lIoul-
ton since last Tuesday, seven days. When
mail or express matter will reach here is
among the undiscovered things of IN undel-
yelopel future. The snow is over the tops OF
the fences, the roads almost impossible, and
the railroad from lloulton to McAdams June
ton is all the way from six to fifteen feet be-
meath the SUBMITS Of the drifts and will not
be dug out, nor the cars run again until Sol
thaws il out in May or June,
Yours in the deepest atiliction and snow
drifts. -----."
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New York Produce Market.
New YORK, March, u

COTTON-saes i124 bales. mid. uplands 21h
fLOUk-1l000; state 5J09 $50; round hoop ONO
JI1a1'jj western . 90e7eO southern 610s9 20.
WHEAT $500 bu; No. spring l52dlj6 /; new
t3 do winter red ami amber western 1872 GIGS
co
oATS-sales lt000O; western IS GjS
fORh- new mess, l500s old, 1880
prime,
LARD SIG "a steam; q kettle, 10%.
BUlIEh-W estn, Il e3S state, 2iaSo
WHlSAEf Western free, s11s.
RlCE-Caroina, 50 a9is.
suGAk-Porto Rico, q ;Muscovado, shs9
MOLASSES-S. .. 81 80
oPTS TUEPkNTlNE-aei
ROSI%- H410
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, l3sl3'4 refined, Pa
TALON "a a9l5
FREiGliIS TO LIVERPOOL Cotton LA
~ Hour 0s, Cd, wheat 5Ad
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SllO,909,500
Total,


New York, 81. Governor Ito ami others
Of the japanese embassy called to- day at the
banking house of Henry Clews & Co. 1t is
regretted that the condition Of the city affairs
is such as will prevent giving them the fitting
reception called for by the magnitude of the
commercial relations between the countries.
Mr.. CleWs entertains them privately at dinner
at Delmonicos tomorrow
The case of Edward S. Stokes will be
called tomorrow before Judge Cardoso in
the court of oyer and terminer, when the
prisoner will plead to the Indictment charg-
ing him with the murder Of james Fisk.
Hugh Waters, an old man employed at the
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As there seems to be a general misappre-
henson among dcpositors in regard to the
State tax imposed y the last legislature upon
savings banks, gentleman well yersed in
law explains The Treasurer of savings
bank is not required to make returns Of the
several depositors to the city or town asses
sors. The banks pay to the State Treasurer
from their gross earnings the one half of one
per cent tax on the total amount of deposits,
without any reference to the individual depos-
TORS.
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the ohll and garbage of unclcan cities, too, 1t eX-
males an eilluvia destructive of health and ygor,
periodic ievers of various types are now raging
with unusual virulencc in various parts OF the
county, and there complaints from all quarters
OF a s'nSulally unhealthy spring. What is TO be
done in this emergency? The answer is simple
and TO the point Strengthen the body. Weakness
hedsposes the system to disease. Commence ut
once course of the most genial of tonic-, Hostel
ters stomach lilters. Bc assured that the germs
Of epidemic and endemic levers Will never infect
the phIsquc that has been fortified and regulated
with this glorious vegetable restorative \ moist
agEraVatcs dyspepsia, and AL III Ca.
OF a bilious type, and the sudden thermouclrittd
changes common at this season, are "A severe trial
even to strong constitutions. There j. but one
Way of combating these delctcrlOu~ agcucic-, aHb
that is by nvigorating the body, ami uulstItlng Il
healthy activity to all Its functions, The only ape
hclc required for this purpose i Ilostritct9 Ut.
tcrs. OF all vegetable tones and alternatives. 10 Is
the purest and The best. Its medicinal ingredients
include all the juices and extracts of tuc most ;t-
proved tonic, anti-blous and antistptic products
the Botanic Kingdom, and they are combined
with sumulant far superior in quality ia the III
cohol used IN preparing the tiuctu,C~ aEd c&tIaft
OF the regular lharmdCopTlh.
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Railroad Accident.

Cincinnati, o., 81. The express train east
due at Fort Wayne at three o'clock this a.
II, was thrown from the track by broken
rail five miles west of Fort Wayne Two
baggage, one express, two coaches and a
sleeping car were burned. The entire con-
tents Of the express car, nearly all of the
baggage ana part of the through mail were
destroyed. The express messenger was
seriously injured and several others slightly
scratched.
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New York Stock Market.
New YORK, March, II

Mariposa do pfd., ; Canton Co. SO Cum
berland Co. 70 Western Union Pei. Co., .o1l
Quicksilver Mining Co., 354 Pacific Mail. 59b
Boston Water Power, Sc Adams Ex. Co.. 81 a
Wells, Fargo Co., IS ; American Merchants Tn
IL; U. $. Ex. Co., 73A: NY Central & HUDSON d
River az do. scrip. SOY Erie, 1873; do. pid ~
Harlem, 10 do. pfd 12j Reading, ll39s Mich.
Central, III Lake Shore and Michigan southern
% Illinois Central $50; Cleveland 4 Pttsburg,
9O4s Chicago Il North Western, 7916 do. pfd 9la4
Chicago " Rock Island, 1l3 Mil " st. Paul 5s9s
do. ptd., 10 ; Toledo, Wabash 4 Western, 75a ;
do. pfi IS : Pittsburg Il Fort Wayne, 9j1s; Ierre
ii tute, 27>s do. pfd 81 Alton, ll6 do, pld 1870
Ohio 81 Miss. ~ Boston, Hartford Erie ga
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ceeds DR.. Fol d of the Michigan University in
the chair Of Anatomy, and DR.. I. I. Sabine
Of New York, DR.. Green of Portland, in Sur
! gerry. President Chamberlain has announced
his intention of reading consecutiyclv por-
tons of scripture in the chapel exercises of
each Sabbath evening, and adding familiar
explanations Of their meaning. lie will be-
gin with the Eps;le to the Romans. The
Seniors are laying their plans to meet the
battle Of life after graduation. Six are going
to stake their fortunes on the law; seven are
looking towards The ministry; two viii care
for the sick two will 20 into the stock-rais-
ing business two Will teach, and the rest
will do, well, just now it hasn't been decided
what. -Four are to be married soon after
graduation, three more in two years, six more
in four, seven more in nine years, and the
other five viii "paddle their own canoes"
alone.
The journal publishes the excellent address
of Mayor Palmer Of Gardiner, from which We
take this financial statement:
City debt, March l-7l, was Eonds, $500 90
balance due on High school House, 1851 7G
There has been paid b. EsmonI's
rad On High a3ol House, 1900
- $500 90
Balance of indebtedness, March 1872, s,9,05i g
The total amount expended last year for
public schools, incluaing school house repairs,
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Exactly !!

Trinity commandery hold their annual con
clave at Masonic Hall in this city, this after
noon at 2 o'clock. There will be work in
all the orders. a fail attendance is car
ncstly requested.