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The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-07-12

How na cor TwMu Dorurs-A
preacher on f.outier settlement bad bee,
collecting money for certain church ol
jecL There was still some ts,pfy J,li,..
waning aud after vain ei,r- to- make ~,
The deficiency, be pldniy ipumafol a .l,.
locked The door one day after ,er,i.e ,b,,
he intended TO have tia, .aii twenty dol
lars before any OF them leu the hons. a,
''e same time he 'e' 'hc example by to..
ing five dollar b.il ou t..e table
Another put down a dollar. another bait
dollar 'oihera quarter aud -o ON
The Par-"n every how anJ then read an,
we state OF 'he fluids That's seven aud a
bali NY friends
That's "'So AID a quarter. Ten aud
BITS are aII that are u ,he bat .riend.
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\ lew schools in Germany refuse all
ml''auce 10 American girls b,cau-e Of tl,e
tad influence excr,,d by the expensive
aluLe Of lhe Iatlef.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-07-12

Newton Streeter took the memorandum,
glanced hastily at the neatly written items,
and then stepped into the light buggy and
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-07-12

like willow. bending meath burden vol
taken up. With the exception
Of an inefficient girl for few weeks when
little Mary died, she had performed all the
labor required in the house since she had
become its mistress
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
FROM NEW YORK

New York, %. The News says that Com
modore Vanderbilt will not build an under
ground railway for the reason that it would
not benefit the public nor be profitable to him
self.
The sheriff's jury to-day awarded W. Job
son 81 900 damages 10 suit brought by him
against L. S. marshal Sharpe.
An attachment on behalf of VIM. w. Will
son, assignee of James NJ. Ingersoll, against
A. W. Dimmock, president of the Atlantic
Mail Steamship Company, for the recovery
of S23, 67S has proven Intellectual. The at
tachment when presented at the office of the
company was met with a certificate setting
forth that Dimmock had nothing TO do with
the company.
Bids were open to-day for 100000 of
city Improvement bonds and the whole
amount was taken at l03 ard upward.
From February LIST all rates between Offices
Of the Western Union Telegraph Company
for ten words that are now more than $3.50,
will be reduced to that amount.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
Lecture by Hon. Warren Johnson.

Hon. Warren johnson of Augusta, State
| Superintendent Of Common Schools, deliv-
cred lecture on Public Education" at Me-
mortal Hall, West Waterville, Wednesday
| evening, the 22nd inst. The lecture was the
| seventh, and we have no hesitation in saying,
one of the most profitable Of the course.
We would that Mr.. johnson could deliver
| that lecture in every town in this State. We
believe it would awaken parents, teachers,
school officials and legislators, to sense of
| their duty. In regard to expenditures for
school purposes he showed that our State
| raised and expended less money per scholar,
with the exception Of New Hampshire and
Indiana, and that we pay our teachers less
wages than any Northern State in the Union.
He believed that ali wealth or property should
pay for education; that this was the most
equitable means of taxation. That by a per-
| feet school system without adequate means,
| the highest possible results could not be at
| tanned. New England could claim the hon
| or OF first establishing public schools. The
New England system had expanded, been re-
vised and improved and had become the con-
tinental system Of Europe. The State was
| the proper authority to educate, England tried
until 1870 by her church, to educate, but had
signally failed. Compulsory attendance was
strongly recommended. Prussia says that
every boy from five to sixteen years of age
must 60 to school. England with all the
light and wisdom that she could gather from
the different school systems of the world, to-
day by herlaws declares the same. Holland,
Switzerland and Sweden have similar laws.
The parent is compelled TO pay tax for the
support Of schools; why not also compel the
parent and guardian to send the child to
school? The children of our State demand
it. Scores of them clothed in rags and daily
confined in our cotton mills for the pittance
of 81 l-2 cents per day, which in many in
stances is seized by drunken parent and
expended for liquor, demand it. More reve-
nue., better instruction, which higher wages
would secure; better school inspection, and
compulsory attendance, were the leading
IDEAS of the discourse.
Maine has the honor of first adopting
prohibitory liquor law; an honor for which
she may justly be proud. May she take the
lead and also have the honor of being the
first State in the Union to adopt compulsory
school attendance. TuURLow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
NEWS BY NAIL.

The Governor of Arkansas has ordered an
election for March 3, when the pending
amendment doing away with the disfranchis-
ipg clause of the Constitution will be sub
mtted to the people.
\ resolution was adopted in the National
House of Representatives on Tuesday to pur-
chase Carpenters painting of the signing of
the Emancipation Proclamation.
A dispatch from Port Dposit says that the
Susquehanna river has fallen somewhat, but
the ice gorge continues. A heavy snow storm
prevails there to-day.
The death of David Duncan of the firm of
Duncan, Sherman & Co., is announced by
private dispatch.
The Committee on Privileges and Elections
commenced the Investigation into the Loui-
siana election troubles, to day, and received
considerable testimony
Daniel Graves, an employee at the Belk-
nap Mills, Laconia, n. H., had his arm drawn
into the picker. Amputation at the shoulder
will be necessary and win probably prove IA
tai.
Messrs. Phelps, Dodge Co., have made a
proposition OF settlement to the Secretary of
the Treasury, which il is thought will be ac-
cepted.
Mr.. j. c. Kenney, who for the past eighteed
years has held the responsible position on
general freight agent of the Eastern Railroad
has rendered his resignation, to take effect
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
Lighthouse Establishment.

The House committee on appropriations
have agreed on the amounts to be expended
on light house establishment during the next
fiscal year, the total being about 81, 400, 900
two-thirds Of the estimate of the Treasury
department., and six tines as much a. was
appropriated for similar purposes last year.
The following estimates for works along the
New England coast were allowed by the com.
mittee: Rebuilding the West lighthouse,
towers on North and Seguin's islands, Me-.
$50, 900 each; building lighthouse and fog
signal at Holiness Hole, sl5 900; changing
light ct Monomby Point, Mass, from harbor
to sea coast light, 100000; keepers dwelling
at Cape Ann light, $4,000; steam fog signal at
Race Point, $1,000; lighthouse and fog sig
nal on "the Whale" Narragansett, r. L..
$50, 900 each; beginning light house on South
west ledge, New Haven, $4,000, and $780,
600 for beginning the construction of light
house to take the place of the light-ship at
Stratford shoals, Long Island Sound. Among
the rejected estimates were the following:
For replacing day beacons destroyed by the
ice on the coasts of Maine and Massachus-
etts; for a steam fog signal at the Highlans,
Cape Cod; for repairs and renovatons at Sci
tuate Head, Mass. for fog signal at New
London, aud for new dwelling and tower at
Stratford Point, Conn. The item of twenty
thousand dollars for rebuilding the east light
house at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, was not
finally decided. The greater part of the
large increase in the appropriation over that
for this purpose last year is due to the esti-
mates for rebuilding and repairing lights and
signals along the southern coast which were
Destroyed during the war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29

The second lecture of the Free Baptist
course was give.. last evening, to a large au-
dience, by Hon. Nelson Dingloy, Jr., OF Lew
iston. His subject was, days among the
Mormons," and using that as a text, the able
lecturer for more than an hour gave his au-
dtors an insight, from personal observation,
into TIE kingdom Of Brigham Young, the
manners and customs of the Mormons, the
soil and climate, and the various questions,
political and social, that are forced upon the
nation BY the existence of pologamy. Mr.
Dingley is one Of those few men whose pub
lie addresses are not only finished and schol-
arly and well received by an audience, but
which invariably read well in print. Mr..
Dingley will repeat this lecture in other pla-
ces. Were it not for this fact, it would afford
us pleasure to give an abstract Of the same in
our columns.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29

Mark Twain has been writing letters to one
of the New York dailies on matters and
things at the Sandwich Islands as they were
six years ago when he was there. Here is a
nice little portrait, done in oil [of vtrioD of
man who until recently had been for years
the ruling spirit in the government.
"Ilarris Is an Americana long legged
vain, lightweight village lawyer from New
Hampshire. If he had brains in proportion
TO his legs, he would make Solomon seem a
failure; if his rlodesty equalcd his ignorance,
he would make q violet seem stuck-up;
if his learning cqualed his vanity, he would
make Won Humbot seem as unlettered as
tbs backside of tombstone; if his stature
were proportioned to his conscience, he would
be gem for the microscope; if his ideas
were as large as his words, it would take
man three months to walk around one of
them; if an audience were to contract to lis
ten as long as he would talk, that audience
would die of old age; and if he were to talk
until he said something he would still be on
his hind legs when the last trump sounded.
And he would have cheek enough to wait till
the disturbance was over and 60 on again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
The Tweed Case.

New York, IS. After a recess the defence
opened by calling witnesses to impeach the
evidence of A. J. Garvey and to show his
animus in giving evidence by proving that he
said in court, when not on the stand, he
would send Tweed to state prison If he hung
for it, but the court ruled out the greater
part as contrary to the rules. Counsel also
wanted to show that Tweed's duty as street
commissioner made it impossible for him to
do more than to attach his signature; that he
could not scrutiuize bills and hence he could
not be guilty of wilful neglect, but the court
held that public officer when he could not
give proper attention to his Office he had a
remedy to resign. At 8 80 the counsel for
the defence having no more witnesses present
asked leave to introduce witnesses tomorrow
promising to occupy less than an hours time,
and the court was adjourned till tomorrow
morning.
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Congress ional Proc edings.
Washington, D. c., Jan. %.
SENATE

Washington, D. c., Jan. %.
SENATE.
Mr.. Thurman offered resolution which
was agreed to, directing the Secretay of the
Treasury to inform the Senate the aggregate
amount of money proceeding from fines,
compromises, and seisures paid since the first
of June, 1869, to officers, detectives and in
formers, with the specific amount received By
each of such persons.
On motion of Mr.. Schurz, the House
amendments to the Vienna Exposition bill,
were concurred in. The bill is therefore
passed.
Mr.. Morrill, of VT, after moved to recon-
slider the vote.
The bill to pay Japan for land occupied by
the United States there for hospital purposes,
was passed.
The consideration of the legislative appro-
priation bill was resumed.
An mendment by Mr.. Morrill, of Vt, yes
terday requiring no judgment of the court of
claims be paid except to persons whose 10y
atty is proved, was passed.
Mr.. Sherman renewed his amendment re-
ducing the salaries of assistant secretary, So
licitor, register and superintendent of archi-
lecture of treasury, assistant secretary of the
interior, commissioner of patents, commits
sioner of Indian affair, commissioner of ag-
riculture, commissioner of customs, auditors
OF the treasury, commissioner general of the
land office, commissioner Of pensions, and as
slstant postmaster-general,s superintendent of
foreign mails, to $4,000, and it was adopted.
On motion Of Mr.. Conkling the Secretary
of the Senate was directed to cause a state
ment to be prepared showing the action of
the Senate and House of Representatives in
examining and counting the electoral votes
r D.
down.
preparation of go, 800 for additional clerks
and compensation in the Treasury depart
ment, which was agreed to.
Mr.. Hill said that he was instructed by the
committee of elections to offer an amendment
raising salaries of members of Congress to
$1,000.
Mr.. Wright moved that the table amend
ment be agreed to; yeas %, nays Is.
Mr.. Windam moved to strike out the pro-
vision of $500 to be expended at the dis
erection of the Secretary of the Treasury.
1t was agreed to.
Mr.. Edmunds of VT, moved to reconsider
the vote by which Mr.. Shermans amendment
raising the salaries of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, Commissioner of Custom, and
other Offices to $4,000 per annum.
Mr.. Buckingham formally announced the
death of Julius Strong, late Representative
from Connecticut, and he and Mr.. Ferry Gu
logized the deceased. The ordinary resolu.
tions were adopted and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House this afternoon, after disposing
of the Senate amendment to the Indian APP
preparation bill, and providing for confer
ence committee on the disagreeing votes, the
House took up the Colorado bill, which was
discussed until O'clock when the death of
Julius S. Strong, late representative from
Connecticut was announced, and appropriate
eulogies delivered.
After which the House adjourned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29

January 81. He win assume Z s,msls, oo.;.
ton on the Boston and Maine road 10 succeed
Mr. kurber, the new superintendent, Febru.
ary J..
Mr.. Frederick F. Low, United States min.
lister to China, 10 about to resign, and Secre.
tary Fish has recommended to the President
the promotion of George F. Seward, consui.
general at Shanghai, to fill the vacancy.
The bill reported from the House Commit.
tee on Congressman Lynch, and passed on
Moday, for establishing life-saving stations,
embraces the whole coast line from the east.
ern extremity of Maine to the capes Of Viz
ginia and North Carolina, and authorizes
survey Of the whole sea and lake coast Of the
United States, with view to the extension of
the system to all the dangerous coasts of the
country.
The telegraph announces the death of Hon.
B. w. Norris, at Montgomery, Alabama, yes
terday morning. Mr.. Norris is we'll known
in this State, and was for years quite an ac-
tive politician in Somerset county. He was
Land Agent from 1860 to 1868, after which he
was paymaster of volunteers. He removed
to Alabama in 1866 where he engaged in poll
tics, and was a member of the Fortieth Con-
gress for few months.
The New York middlemen are preparing
for vigorous resistance to the coal combina-
ton. and the latter movement is denounced
on all sides. The Delaware and Hudson Ca
nal Company have fixed the prices of coal for
February at 80 cents per ton higher all around
than that of January.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
BOSTON ITEMS.

Boston, IS. The stockholders of the
Fitchbsrg railroad company at the annual
meeting to-day adopted resolution favoring
consolidation with the Boston & Lowell rail-
road.
The Mass. Woman Suffrage Association
held its annual meeting in fremont Temple
this 7. NJ. Rev. James +. Clarke presided.
A second session was held in the evening.
The treasury was reported in debt S2lG.l4.
The old board of officers were elected and the
customary resolutions. w. Lloyd Garrison
presided in the evening. The audiences
were small but comprised many of the most
celebrated persons in the community.
The sth annual reunion of the Alumni as
ISOLATION was held this evening at Parkers.
About so graduates were present. An hour
or so was spent in social converse. Officers
of the association were chosen for the ensu-
ing year, being the old list.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-29
STATE NEWS.

List of patents issued to citizens of Maine
for the week ending January Z, 1878:
F. Collins, Portland, thread cutter for sew
ing machines.
ii. F. Body and 4. z. Merrill, cortland,
feed water heater.
Mrs. Ira Smart of South Gu IL, during the
recent storm that was accompanied with
thunder and lightning, went into her bedroom
and laid down. Her daughter went into the
room shortly afterwsrd and asked her how
she felt, when she replied that she was dying.
She shortly afterwards became insensible and
expired at ten O'Clock. She was apparently
in her usual health in the early evening, but
it is supposed that her hear, was affected so
that the shock and fright produced fatal re-
suits.
Sheriff Hobbs of Knox county, has APP
pointed John S. Fuller of Rockport as Dep
uty Sheriff Of Camden.
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Destructive CONFEDERATION.

Washington, SO. The National Theatre
was burned this forenoon, and the adjacent
buildings, including the Imperial Hotel, dam
aged by water. The building was owned by
VIM. II. Ripley and his loss is estimated at
100000, on which there is an insurance OF
$4,000. Manager Saville lost his entire
wardrobe. Mrs. Saville, the leading actress,
also lost heavily. The theatre will be imme-
diately rebuilt. The building was the third
on this site which has been destroyed by fire,
the last time being about fifteen years aso
Mrs James Gates, with her burlesque COM
pany, had Just commenced an engagement.
They saved their wardrobe, music and instru
ments, with some slight and triiing excep-
tons.
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New YORK, Jan. 2S.
New York Produce Market.
New YORK, Jan. IS.

COTTON .-sales 17l0 bales. mid. up,ands 81 a
FLOUR-saies $500; state 6 35 as 60; round hoop
Ohio a 10 60; Western 209l0 IS southern 50g
Is %.
WHEAT 65000 bu; No. Q spring l y 1l e. new
do winter red and amber we stern l15 az 90
CORN 5000. steamer 6i G6h sail d5 g 81
OATs-sales "a. 900 western 55g57 new 81 "a
PORK-l4 so; prime. Is l21i914 90
LARD-9S9s}s; Kettle Sass; steam Sasl4
BuTTEK-sGate. 30s3s. Western l1al6
WHISKEY Western free, 93a9Ss
RICE-Carolina, sgSi<.
COFFEE-l9k9
suCiAR-Porto Rico 9s9. Muscovado, 9
e0&
MOLAssEs-S. o. Gss75; Muscovado 2ss3o;
clarified 20a30.
SPTS TURPENTINE-6S
ROSIN-3 S5S
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 81 ; refined, a2l}i
a22
TALLOW-s5s5s
LINSEED OIL-S0
FREIGHrS To INTERPOLATION str. ) id (;
per sail 7&d; Grain per str. 7ed corn per str.
q Grain sd
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street to Manchester was found to be between
Water and Middle streets aforesaid.
After having been laid out by the county COM
missioners and favorable considered in town
meeting assembled, another meeting was
called by those opposed and the enterprise
was defeated. Had that road been built at
the time, it would have been of immense
advantage to the business of Hallowell; and
in our judgment it is not too late to reap
much benefit from a renewal of the project.
There is such vast amount of teaming from
the quarries, it is for the interest of the city
to have more than one avenue leading into
the country beyond.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Washington, ID. c., IS. In the Louisiana
investigation to- day, Gen. Mcmillan testified
that that the election was quiet and orderly
the vote cast was 20, 900 larger than ever be-
fore; there were not over $500 white republi-
can votes in New Orleans, and not over 2000
of such in the State outside the city, there
were probably about as many colored men
who voted against rs whites who voted for the
republican nominees; the vote for McEmery
was less than the entire white vote of the
State the entire republican vote was limited
in 1870, which was not the case in 1872: the
falling Of of 1000 votes in the republican
party he never knew that Mr.. Kellogg was
popular among the republicans of the State.
He gave his reasons for the belief that the
organization of the legislature on the 9th of
December was not in accordance with the
law.
Lieut. Pinchback testified as to the organ
izaton of the legislature, and the expulsion
of certain Senators who went over to the fu-
sion legislation, thought their term as Sena-
tors expired November 4th; he exercised the
functions of president of the Senate after that
time, but took no other part in legislation; a
person who acted sjudge of the 8th district
court enjoined the witness from acting as
governor on the ground that his term OF SER
vice as Senatoa had expired, but Mr.. Elmore
had not then been returned as judge by the
Lynch Board, and the witness did not recog-
nize him as judge.
The question whether an ex-oilicio lieut..
governor may vote as a Senator, was post
poned for further consideration. Adjourned
until tomorrow.
Mr. Campbell, United States Commission
er for running the boundary line between the
United States and the British Possessions, is
now in Washington. The commission dur
ing the past season started Pembuia on the
River to the Lake of the Woods, and after
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The Fright Over.

Maj. Baker returned home yesterday morn
ing from Skowhegan, where he had been to
investigate the case of servant girl who left
his house last Friday, with "small pox," as
reported in the streets on the arrival of the
train ftow Skowhegan on Monday last. Be-
low we give certificates of two prominent
physicians of that place:
SKowHEGAN, Me-, Jan. 81, 1873
This certities that l have this day carefully
examined Miss Ida NJ. Phillips and find her
suffering from very mild attack of measles,
nothing more, nothing less.
&. A. WILBUR, NJ. d.
SKowHEGAN, Me-, Jan. %, 1873.
hereby certify that I was called, on the
morning of the 26th inst, at IL o'clock, to
visit Miss Ida Phillips. Her symptoms caus-
ed me to suspect varioloid, and to take pre-
cautionary steps in the case. A subsequent
visit proves the case to be measles, beyond a
doubt. c. +. HAYNES, NJ. d.