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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-04-09
Scissorlnktums.

Griffin, TIA. is to be sued Tor $40.
900.
Montgomery. Ala, is organizing
boat clubs.
Fernandlna, Fla, is going to hayo
q hotel.
Mr.. Ram rill is tho editor OF an
Ohio paper.
A Brooklyn man calls Troy the
city Of handsome women.
A 9year old boy At Mt. Carbon,
Pa, weighs 100 pounds.
a"u .."uuS 1A,..u.s, ~.
The total valuation oi land in Mis-
sisslppi is $l9l,2lO,347.
A negro child was born in Hen
derson, N. e., without any eyes.
The Savannah aud Memphis Rail.
road will shortly be completed.
Har,nar, O., Is hunting soms ono
who will agree to run tor Mayer.
Miss Lre Randall has been appoin-
ted PnsL,nistress NJ Oxford. Miss.
Work has been resumed on the
Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad.
Jackson, Ala, is shipping large
nnmbers OF beaver skins to N. Y.
Large quantities Of herring are
being trapped up the Ogeache. Geo
Hartwell, Ga. has = man sc years
old who has just married Tor ths first
time.
Cory, Pa, taxes her liqnor.scllers
el5 each for the benefit Of the police
fund.
About 800, 900 has been spent in
improving the James river, Virginia,
since the war
Jacksonville, Fla, has over 1900
visitors since the beginning Of last
October.
The managers of the Georgia State
Lottery have given 4l0O to the poor
Of Atlantis.
lows has legislator who did not
know capital punish 1ent was abol.
ishcd IN his State.
Ths Maryland peach crop has bees
injured by the alternate cold and
warm weather.
A bad Of oxide Of iron has been
discovered short distance south Of
Sh.eisrstowown, Pa.
The Turkish Government has or.
dered a new 100000 irouclad. It
is to be built in England.
| Cu,iousIy enough it was at Wagga.
wagga that the Tiohborne tale was
first set iu motion.
| Forty two hundred aud City emf.
grants arrived at tho port OF Philajsl.
phia during ths year 1873.
A soldier OF Wellington's Water.
loo army died IN the Poor Houas At
cambridge, Ga, days ago.
, A man doing business under On
assumed firm name has been thrown
. our ot court in the Cincinnati Com
; mon Plsas, on tho ground that y
single individual could not associate
!. and multiply himself into several
different persons.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-04-09
Cash Rates Of Advertising.

Legal Advertising, At legal rates.
For the use ~ Ilsrce "Y.'.s 7fvm AZ 70 ~
per esat., will be made.
Prompt settlements will be expected with
ali time advertisers, At the close Of euch
calender quarter. Transient advertise
ments must be paid for ia advance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
NORTON ON CURRENCY.

In the closing part Of his recent letter upon
the vetoed bill Senator Morton says "Wheth-
er the volume of the currency is sufficient for
the business of the country is a question of
fact about which men may honestly differ.
During the four years prect ding the panic
there had been an actual contraction of the
currency, and q much larger comparative con-
traction resulting from the growth of popula-
ton and business. A majority of Congress
were Of the opipion tina. to produce a restora-
tion of confidence, a speedy revival of bust
ness and return to the prosperity which was
so suddenly destroyed by the panic, some ad-
dition should be made to the volume of the
currency. That the bill which has failed to
become law would have produced some con-
traction 10 undoubtedly true. But it would
have been almost entirely in the stock market
in New York. This bill, in effect, required
the banks outside Of the redemption cities to
keep three-fourths of their reserve at home.
and would have withdrawn come millions
from the stock market in New York. which
would strengthen the banks to which they be.
ionged, and would have produced contraction
In quarter where it is pretty well under
stood that contraction would do no harm. The
act Of 1869, to strengthen the public credit,
declares that the United States solemnIy
pledged ito faith to make provision at the ear.
Hest practicable period for the redemption Of
the United States notes 10 coin In the de-
bate upon this bill nobody has denied the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
Nallomell ZoraI Mems.

Another out door religious meeting in front
of the Reading room was held on Monday
evening, and was addressed by Rev. Mr..
peckham in his usual fervent and decided
manner. The multitude present observed
respectful attention throughout the entire ex-
ercises. The usual Monday evening social
meeting was held in the Reading Room i'm
mediately after the close of the out door SER
vices.
We have been requested to state that the
grand muslin ball which takes place at Will
son Hall in this city on Thursday evening of
this week, will be one of the finest affairs of
the kind for the season. The management is
under the direction of ladies who always
guarantee success in whatever they under
take. Arrangements have been made for the
coach to leave Augusta at I 80 and s 30 on
that evening, to accommodate those who wish
to attend from that city. Gallery tickets at
% cents each may be obtained at the door.
general clearing of the rubbish from the
cutters on Water street gives a neater ap-
psarance to that important thoroughfare.
Gravel is also improving Second street all
along the line.
DIR. Dio Lewis filled his engagement here
on Tuesday afternoon and evening. We have
not been able to furnish full reports of the
meetings, as circumstances beyond our con-
troll prevented our attendance. There is not
so much mate rial to work upon in this city as
in former days not far remote; but it is we'll
to keep the public conscience fully up to the
desired standard to hold the advanced position
already attained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
WASHINGTON MATTERS.

Senator Thurman spoke at length in
the Senate against the exclusion of insurance
companies who took war risks from the di-
vision of the Alabama awards.
Senator Cameron will soon endeavor to
pass in the Senate the universal amnesty bill.
and the bill restoring the pensions of the
Southern soldiers in the war Of 1912, the
Florida war and Mexican war, who have for
feted them by entering the rebel army.
Paymaster General Alvord read paper on
Saturday night before the Philosophical So
ciety, on the recent disturbances on Bald
Pate Mountain, North Carolina, based on the
personal observations of Professor Daprey OF
that State. These observations establish the
free from volcanic origin.
The House Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads have agreed to recommend the
enactment of law which shall require pre-
payment of postage Oil all newspapers and
other printed matter. Postmaster. General
Creswell was present at the Committee meet
ing to assist in perfecting the details Of the
bill. 1t will provide for the prepayment of
postage by the pound, probably, at the rate
of two cents per pound for newspapers and
periodicals mailed regularly by publishers,
who can thus put up and prepay large pack
ages without the trouble of separately stamp
ing the publications destined for the same
post office.
The conference of the Republican Senators
on the Civil Rights bill is said to be owing to
the opinion of several that some
clauses of the bill are not clearly constitutions
al. At another caucus provisions will be
considered which will admit ofseparate schools
being provided for white and colored children,
and also for separate Accommodations by inn
keepers, proprietors of theatres, ETC., on
condition that advantages shall be equally as
great as those furnished to the other classes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

The Third National Penitentiary and
Reformatory Congress. organized under
the auspices of the National Prison Asso-
citation is to meet in st. Louis this evening.
An opening address will be delivered by
Ex-Gov. Seymour of New York. The SEES.
sion will continue six days, during which
important reports will be submitted by
distinguished gentlemen. Invitations have
been sent out to Governors of States, an
nual and life members of the association.
officers of prisons, reformatories and po-
lice organizations, and to kindred socie-
ties engaged in the work of reforming
criminals, so that it is probable the at
tendance will be large and the proceed
ings of deep interest. The public is in
debted to such gatherings for valuable
information in regard to criminals and the
method Of dealing with them, leading to
the formation Of more correct opinions
concerning the treatment proper for this
class of our population.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
The course of the President in vetoine

The course Of the President in vetoing
the finance bill, and the determination
manifested by the majority in Congress to
overturn abuse and corruption, are i'm
proving the prospects of the republican
party. The Rochester Democrat con-
cludes an article as follows cat present
it seems impossible for a fair-minded OBJ
server to presage disaster for republican
ism. The last few weeks have been for
it weeks of constant gain. The veto has
greatly increased its fair prospects. With
a decent degree of prudence, with an I'M
finching determination to remove all inn
pediments from its pathway, with the
abolition of the moiety and spy system as
heretofore administered, with the removal
from its body of the ulcer of Butlerism,
with fealty to the teachings of its past
and clear comprehension of its destiny,
it has years Of success still before it. The
future it can make its own; and it seems
very clearly to-day to be rightly moulding
that future"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
POLITICAL.

The following States did not give single
vote for the Centennial Vermont Kentucky,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Iowa,
Minnesota, Oregon and West Virginia.
1t is stated that the report Of the
House committee in favor of the admission
of New Mexico as a State meets the approba-
baton of majority of the Senate committee,
so that we are likely to greet the thirty eighth
State of the Union before Congress adjourns.
The editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, the
paper money Democratic organ of the West,
refused to attend the Manhattan reunion in
New York, and says that there will be new
Democratic party in the West, with de-
mand for an increased amount of currency as
the chief plank in its platform, and which
will refuse an af1iliaton with the bond-holders,
as he calls Messrs. Belmont, Schell and other
bullion men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

The report of the Superintendent of
Banks in New York makes very favor
able exhibit of the condition of the say
ings banks of that State 1t will be rec
objected that the panic tried some of them
pretty sharply, but they went safely
through, retaining the confidence of the
great body of their depositors in spite of
the excitement. In some cases funds
were withdrawn through apprehension for
their safety but were soon returned.
Seventy-six of the 155 savings banks of
the State paid their depositors upon de-
mand all through the panic. Five re-
quired notice, and adhered to it in all
cases, and SO required notice, but made
such exceptions TO the rule as. the neccs-
sites of depositors seemed to demand
"On the WHOLE" says the Times "the re-
port is one of the most satisfactory docu-
ments of the kind which has been issued
for years, and shows that the managers of
savings banks are every year becoming
better acquainted with the means of sue
cessfully meeting trying emergencies, in
addition to being better prepared with the
resources necessary TO neutralizc the eff
fleets of panic"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

character or binding force of that pledge, but
the question as to the practicable period"
for it's performance remains as open as it was
upon the day it was passed. Very few mem
bers of either House CT Congress have agreed
upon any method for the resumption OF specie
payment. While the Government is pledged
to redeem the legal-tender notes in coin at the
earliest practicable period, while the purpose
to do so should ever be kept in view, yet that
period is by many not deemed to be practical
Bile, when there is great stagnation of bust
ness, much labor unemployed, the revenues
largely fallen off, and much distress and suf-
fering in every part of the country"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
GENERdL NEWS.

Sunday the thermometer stood at OF in the
shade In New York.
Gen. Howard has been acquitted of the
charges preferred against him.
Secretary Richardson has returned to his
official duties in the Treasury Department
1t is stated that while the railroads in Brit
lsh India scarcely pay more than expenses,
the canals return large profits.
Four state rooms were engaged for Nilsson
on the Scotia, to accommodate her voice and
her trunks.
Wagner, the Isles of Shoals murderer, is to
be brought for sentence before the Alfred term
of court, which assemblies on the 2sth
Miss Nellie Grant has purchased her we'd
ding trousseau. One Of her dresses (white
silk) cost $40 ayard, and required forty yards,
without the f1xngs.
The income of the late David Frederick
Strauss, the great theologian, was but 400
forms Qess than 5000 for the last thirty
years. He was barely able to live upon it.
The miners at Jacksonville, Ohio, who are
on strike, have been making serious dis.
turbances. One man was killed and two
others MORALLY wounded Friday.
The latest reported smart old lady is Mrs
Seba Spicer of Upton, Iowa, 70, who en-
ploying mason to repair the chimney on her
house, a two story one carried the hod dur
ing the progress of the job
Vermont preacher who asked his congre-
CATION to pray for the editor of the local pa
per, has had bill sent to him for IS years
subscription to that paper, and $500 worth of
religious notices.
English sparrows are voted nuisance in
Jersey, where they do not destroy the worms,
but do eat the fruit buds and drive off the ma
tive birds. Besides, they are declared to be
very filthy.
England is laughing at blunder that oc-
were welcomed from the Gold Coast. huge
flag was suspended from police station with
the inscription, "Welcome Home"
The two pigmies from Central Africa, which
Bayard Taylor described in recent letter to
the Tribune from Cairo are now in Naples,
having arrived there in charge of Professor
Fanceri, about the middle of last month.
A dog on one of the Portland trains on Sat,
urday became mad and was taken into the
baggage car and shot. AS ten shots were
fired at him before lie died, the inference is
that the occupants of the car must have been
in no little danger.
1t is stated that over $1,000 Circassians
have emigrated to Turkey since the conquest
OF their territory by Russia was completed.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, Miss Adelaide
Phillips, and the Temple Quartette of Boston
have been engaged to furnish the musical part
of the exercises when Mr.. George William
Curtis delivers his Grafton on Senator Sumner
before the State authorities of Massachusetts,
The foreign papers brought by the last mails
contain evidence that the spring or summer
season has set in with unusual heat all over
Europe. In Paris and London the weather at
the end Of April was hotter than it is usually
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

is in July. There had been case Of cholera
was not unusually high
Some Of the desperate villains of New York
city have adopted novel method of thieving.
They place their names on the books Of chart
table and religious institutions as applicants
for work. When parties in search of servants
apply at the place designated they are robbed.
The invitations to the White House we'd
! ding are very plain, without monogram or de-
vice, printed on heavy parchment paper, and
read as follows: "The President and Mrs.
! Grant request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their daughter at the Ex-
ecutiye Mansion on Thursday, May 2lst, at
| IL o'clock, A. NJ" With these are two plain
bristol board cards, each about two and half
by four inches in size, one bearing the name
Miss Nellie w. Grant, the other Mr.. Algernon
c. F. Sartoris.
| gentleman and lady who occupied the
same seat on an eastern bound train of cars
in Ohio recently, casually falling into CONVEX
satien, found they both belonged in Boston,
and were going home. On their arrival at the
depot in Boston they both got into the same
| hack, and the hackman having inquired of the
man where he wanted to go, he replied, ono.
12---street." "You may leave me at the same
place., said the lady. The man was good
deal surprised, but when they arrived at the
house they found that they had been living in
adjoining houses, the entrances to which were
not three feet apart, for several years, and
had not known each other.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

The bill introduced in the House to aid
in the construction of the Northern Pacific
Railroad asks the government to guaran-
tee the bonds of the company at the rate
of fifty thousand dollars for every mile OF
the road, Of which the company is to have
forty thousand and the government re-
tain ten thousand as security. The compa-
ny will also give the government its first
mortgage bonds to an amount equal to the
bonds the government issues. and its en-
tire land grant and net earnings. The
proposition looks favorable on its face but
the experience of the government with
railroads has been Of such a character that
it will be very cautious how it assumes re-
sponsibility on account of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
WANTEn.

TIE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO..
of Philadelphia an old and reliable Lie COMPANY "
desires an Agent in every portion of this State In
which 1t is not new represented. 1t is a strictly
Mutual Company returns its surplus premiums to
its members every Year, and rs its expenses are
small, furnishes them Insurance at the lowest pos.
sble rates. All OF lis Policies are non forIeitable
for their value after the third year Liberal Com.
mission contracts made with reliable men. Apply
to Ii. S. STEPHENS V. Pres't, No. 92l Chestnut
ST., Philadelphia Pa 4w2I
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

The venerable Archdeacon Scott of Dun
ham, Canada East, says that he suffered from
dyspepsia more than twenty-five years, but
that three weeks use of the Peruvian Syrup
Gan Iron tonic) has benefited him so wonder
fully that he can hardly persuade himself of
the reality, and people who know him are as
tonished at the change. l3may
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
Commissioners Notice.

'iNll Undersigned Commits siouers appointed. by
1 the Judge oil Probate for kennebec County
to receive and examine the claims of creditors
against the estate OF \. Rogers Ramsdell late of
Augusta, deceased, presented insolven give
tice that a further time of three months from the
second day of March, 1874 is allowed for said cred
TORS to presen, and prove their claims, and that
said claims and proof, at the Office Of 4. W. White,
house, in said Augusta, at ten O'Clock in the fore.
noon, on saturday the 30th day OF May inst
JOSEPH W. PATTERSON,
EUGENE w. WIIiTEuOUSE
maplti-t.,W
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

Business in Congress is backward. At
the request of Senator Morrill,, Chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations, the
senate has authorized that committee to
sit during the sessions of the senate, in
order that the large amount of work which
it has to do may be forwarded as speedily
as possible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

The soothing, healing effects Of Adamson's
Botanic Cough Balsam are plainly expert
enced with the first dose. Its work appears
little less than magic, yet it acts on wel-known
scientific principles, and because compounded
in just the right manner to cure.
l3mayeod+wlw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

Either sick or we'll, most people relish a
cup of Broma. The difficulty of obtaining it
in its purity has prevented its universal use.
The Medal of Merit at the Vienna Exposition
was awarded that put up by Walter Baker &
Co., Boston, as strictly pure, and their bust.
ness is so extensive that their goods may be
obtained almost anywhere. lit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

Joseph Arch did some good in visiting
this country. Thousands Of the agricul-
tural laborers of England, who have i'm
plicit confidence in his efforts to ame-
liorate their condition, are pouring into
Canada; and will doubtless find their way
over the border to swell the ranks OF labor
In this country and increase its wealth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13

The receipts of internal revenue thus far, for
the fiscal year, are $50, 900 900, leaving Sl4,
of this month and June, to reach the estimate
made by the Commissioner of 100000, 900
for the fiscal year ending with June. The re-
ceipts since the first of May have been S.
0o0,o0o for the month of May, 1878, they
were $l2,355 900. May is the heaviest
month in the year, when special taxes are
paid. 1t i. estimated that the receipts for
the present May will be slo, 000,0 900.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
Sher1H7s Sale.

kENNEBEC IS.
rHAKEN on execution, and will be sold by public
L auction on the ninth day of June, a. ID. 1874
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, at the office of Hiram
X. Choate, in Augusta in said county, all the right
in equity which AloGZo Mooers of Nassalboro', in
the county of kennebCc, has or had on the seventh
day of October a. ID. Is ), at seven O'Clock in the
atternOon-the time the same was attached on the
original writ to redeem the following described
real estate, situated in Nassalboro, i'll the county
of kennebec, to wit: certain piece of land in
Nassaboro, aforesaid, being part of lot No. IS on
the third range, containing nineteen acres within
the bounding fences, being one hundred and SIX
teen and onethird rods in length on the south side,
and one hundred and three and one third rods on
the north side, and twentyeight rods and one-halt
line; bounded south by the Redngton road, so
called east by the Taber Hill road, called north
by land of Charles Doe, west by line drawn par
allel with the east line of land of Ezekiel Small,
and at the distance of sixteen rods therefrom at
right angles, and being the same premises decided
to said Alonzo Mooers by William Merrill, July
p, 1858, and recorded in the Kennebec Registry OF
Deeds, book ol5, page 552.
The above premises being subject to mortgage,
recorded in the Kennebec Registry of Deeds, book
27s, page 357, given bv the SAID AlOnzo Mooers to
Charles B. Gates of NassalborO, aforesaid, to Sc
cure the payment of two promssory notes, dated
March 18th, 1870; one of said notes for two hun.
bred dollars. payable in two years from its date,
and tor three hundred dollars, payable in three
years. and each bearing nine per cent. interest pay
will be made known at the time of said sale.
VIM. II. LIBBY, Deputy sheriff.
April so, 1874. 3w2l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-13
Notice to TaachArs

TIE experimenting School Committee OF An.
i gusta, will be in session at the
Council Chamber, Granite Building,
THURSDAY, the 23d day ofApr at O'Clock p. NJ,
and on each succeeding Thursday for four weeks
for the purpose Of examining teachers for the sum.
mer Schools. District Agents and others interest.
ed are invited TO be present.
az, PE y tP6i,Y ssaperiGtending
w. b. LAPHAM, of Augusta,
: Augusta, April 1, 1874. 6Wf&W