davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13
Democratic congregational Convention

The delegates to the Democratic Con-
rrcssional Convention ior the Sd district
met st Meonian Hall in Augusta, on Tues
0al, August 4,h. agreeably to the call,
ana acted IS follows The convention
vas called - order by Dr. G. w Martin,
chairman of the district committee, and
u MS motion John H Webster, ESQ., of
Nouidgewock was elected temporary
President Mi Webster accepted the
position with appropriate remarks. Albert
Moore If North Arson was elected Secre-
tar1 On motion it was voted that all
democrats present who are residents Of
The Congressional district be invited to
participate in the proceedings of the con-
relJ,On Voted To make the temporary
organization permanent
! + P'lls5uly OF Augusta Asa Gle of
ReadEe.G, [ ". McFadden OF Fairfield
q Berry q Danariscotta, and ". D.
Havdcu Of Madison We're chosen commit
ree ~ draft resolutions tor the conSidera-
UCI Ct the convention The committee
subsequently, reported the following reso-
buttons which were unanimously adopted ::
Resolved. That the interests of the country
.rlper-oQsly require and the Democracy de-
.laud-
IA return 10 ss9n6Hg in the administra-
uln q Tie Government in all its Departments.
,..-. y l." w goI.tcuoI ol lie irauus,
''ilN ~ lliat are
- a. ~ g. t'9'ie Alo P"hishilhh'
-- '--'- i = , , 80 ,;,. .
o 30 i+,a a,,.'- ~ tile T
+ to,,t ,ho 1,,,ir',r s u
-. Fe,jera1 ad,,i,listr1tiGn - a
E-.s.}S =. T.DJo ,,,,i,,a,,,,, ,o3 H., 49,
a., t,e 80 a. =, = t'ii =
- 11at TIC Jrets az 60 :, q
~ M 80 .''I az We az ~
4li1'9' '14g VI 'lir ,FIf 'illen' u ~ allr
us'e" Y ~ 'eal ilIost IiSliIt upon the lhas7 Oh
le peoY4e' 4nsteau y lie present unequal I'M
ius. Ahu N"SlellI !uFtp LOT ct0SS pTofec't0A
5-4 sogsa eIrIexcy-coin' AID naner CON,
vertible into CON on delna nd Immediate steps
toward me resumption Of specie payments,
Hsoeaa oi 5 ' ti laa 40 nong pocy Of
rspudiatorS' W = '''''''''''''' '''''
6-The Ballot Boz Kept pure and tree from
NE corrspt interference Of m army Of office
Lolaefs c,-,,o. n..o1r.a
LTb ut 'i he Zstional COMMUNICATION %
republican partv Is marked hv rorruntio enr
felalcations, extravaganza and nsurpations SO
monstrous that they should shock the moral
~ense q ne country ana compel honest men to
,terjr corrn, and dsn@er Sil o ~ th SO
republican party, controlled BY rings Of Office
holders, has become.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Here's more Of it. The long h-t of
frauds on the treasery by employing need
less persons is getting every day longer
1t is now reported that a large number 81
collectors and supervisors of internal
revenue, for many months back have
carried their wives ana daughters on their
pay rolls in a clerical capacity An in
stance is cited where q collector has his
wife on the roll rs clerk. drawIn@ 4
salary of 800 month, and 4 daughter
eight years Of age accredited as an assist
ant and drawing Il monthly salary of So
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The Wing says that Mr.. Edmond Murdoch NJ
Carol was raking hay in the field about o'clocI
Wednesday afternoon, behind q team which
two neighbors were loading, when they heard
him cough and strange, and going round to
staggering about. with blood pouring from his
mouth and nostris. In few moments he was
dead,
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

!. lannnrnns Eor any, on

1t is dangerous for any one to travel
with a child resembling the little Ross
boy, stolen at Philadelphia, Several in
dignant parents have been obliged to
prove that their children really were
theira-ant that int always easy to do.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

A committee of Crusaders in Bangor
are trying to brad the city government mp
to the point of enforcing the liquor law.
They make the following report rs the re-
suit Of an interview with the Mayor
The committee asked the following question:
Suppose you knew liquor was sold nj the
Bangor House, Penobscot Exchange, Franklin
House, etc., would You authorize the officers
to make seizuresE'
The Mayor said, mo, sir. The BANGOR
House is Il respectable place; it is an honor TO
the city. Mr. Shaw assures us that he sells
very little liquor to citizens, but keeps it for
his guests
The inference the committee drew from this
was, that he would not make seizures in re-
spectacle places, so called, but would cndeay-
or TO see that the law was enforced in lower
places.
The secret of this refusal is that election
is too near at hand to make any attempt
Of the Kind Advisable.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Marshal Bazalne, who was tried for
treachery, as commander Of Metz during
the German war, and imprisoned on the
island of St. Marguerite, has escaped. and
gone in vessel to Italy.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

If the Republican journal viii consult Iri-
days issue Of the paper to which it owes the
blunder of claiming Senator Morton in favor of
the Reciprocity Treaty, il will lind that in the
column adjoining reiteration OF the correct
ness of its statement that reliable journal
quotes the Chicago Tribune as SAYING OF Sena-
tor Morton's speech: " He advocates a protec-
tive tariff, and opposes the reciprocity treaty.
The latter, he believes. would tend to delay
Canadian annexation" In examining the de-
spatches. as is our custom in preparing them
for publication, the Geographic reference to
Senator Morton's views on the Treaty was
found to be rendered utterly meaningless, by
evident errors in transmission. We accord
ingly took pains TO obtain a correction OF the
despatch from Boston, and thus avoided the
blunder which led the journal to write a Wig
orous editorial on Morton as all advocate Of
Reciprocity. Bangor Wing.
The dispatch, as we commented upon
it, appears in six daily papers received at
this office on Monday Of last week, and
that would seem to be warrant enough
for the assumption that it was correct
Indeed, when we compare that dispatch
with the Wigs version, the difference iq
not very great. 1t stands thu
As we had it,
In regard to reciprocity, he favored treaty
with Canada as foreign country long as it
remained such.
As the Wing had IT..
In regard to the Reciprocity Treaty with
Canada he called attention to the fact that.
after the former treaty had been in operation
eight years, Canada was more hostile TO lis
during 1.-The Rebellion than any other portion
Of the British Empire, and he favored treating
Canada as foreign country az long "a ii re.
manned so.
The Wings dispatch does not say that
the Senator opposes reciprocity "Treat-
ing Canada as foreign country IS Just
what reaty does. We don't make
treaties with any other people than for
eigners. That Mr.. Morton is opposed to
reciprocity treaty, is inferential only,
from any thing that the Wings despatch
contains. All this begets suspicion that
the Senator's speech has been doctored,
with one version to suit the western mar
ket, and one tor the east, where reciproc-
ity is supposed to be less popular.
The Wing has not, we think, published
that portion of Mr. Morton's speech in re-
gard to the currency, wherein he exults
before his constituents over the defeat Of
the contraction policy OF the east He is
the leader Of the expansion schemes. In
his Terre Haute speech he declared that
he believed his position to be 8" the posi-
ton substantially occupied by those in
the Senate with whom he acted That
means that the Republicans of the United
States Senate are with him. Has the
Wing any different version from this? And
if not, is it prepared to follow this leads
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The Editor Of the Camden Herald was
off on IN excursion last week The paper
came out with one side blank, recording
the nnSpeakahle things Of the tour, proba-
hlV
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Rockland is holding series of meetings
for the strict enforcement of the prohibit
tory lava thing that never has been
done, and never will be.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

A correspondent of the Boston Herald
writes an enthusiastic letter, detailing The
charms Of Castinc rs a summer resort
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The County Committee hayp drcidrd
to change the date Of holding the Demo
cratic Convention for Waldo County 10
August 10Th, AZ will he seen by the calI
in to-dayy paper.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Now they say that Beecher did it while
he was insane. and is therefore not re-
sponeible.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The postal telegraph in England last
year made loss for the government of a
million and a half Of dollars. And vet
there are people who shrek for the adop-
ton of the system in this country.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13
Generalties.

H.
absent on Il brief tour, TO rccuperate his ener-
gies ana health.
A laundress in the Bowery hangs out her sign
after this fashion: Society for the Promotion
of Clean Shirts
A better keepsake could not be devised than
the proposed gold and silvcrmedals to be struck
for the Centennial.
Another baby farm has been discovered in
New York, where infants are slowly killed by
beng fed on soothing syrup.
There is a pond on Cape God which produces
PINK pond lilies, and it is the only place in the
country where such flower grows.
The Maine Central railroad carried Ban
more passengers in the first six months of the
current year than in the corresponding period
of 1878.
The contract for furnishing and cutting stone
torthe Hartford, Conn.,, custom house and posi-
office has been awarded to the Cark's Island
Granite Company
Secretary Bristow will recommend to Con
%reSS 10 increase the interest on the four and
one-half per cent bonds, amounting to $500
U0',o0o, 10 i've per cent.
II is TOO bad thai the Mayor of Grass City.
Kansas, is dead, Tor the local paper says thai
IF he hadn't but one chew of tobacco he'd
divide il with Il friend
4 woman III Buffalo was fined thirty dollar
ipr throwing red pepper into the eyes of arrival
aud She hould be made to slt by her ant lend
her carefully until She @et~ over it.
,r,
Ign during Saturday and Sunday was very
heavy and accompanied by northerly gale,
which stripped trees aud did other damage
!, wa. ...1,,I;,,, ,-,l.,..,. -,, -.
oo',,n I.o Hm 'l,i H"U' - , mlt, n[!dh,
h;,,g, If nnt,o;t 4 wv ,a,.,. H'r'isT ~
1hcy rrrhed %oaar, Mills il NJ .a" ,,i ai' NV
S'"
A. 4 passenger train upon the Maine Ccntrl,
motive ,trurL . hor.a NOR p,ri-a,.s Nftli
lrowinss ll,n lu;tn1I .r,.I ro ANA HILL
Inn ;nsf'ntl, '"' '''''''N
Two wine merchants from bordeaux.
France, have applied fa,. -uara ot The American
Centennial Exhibition. one evpreezrI Ms In.
trntion of exhibiting hitl different brands al
lor'IcauN wine.
In W,o,n;,.. ,t. ..,,,.;,,,,.n., INF, ,,..,,..,.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

To-day the list Of the truly loyal who
have got their arms into Uncle Sans
money box for doing the business at the
same custom house, is as follows
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

1t Will be seen by the call in This paper
that the Democratic County Convention
for Knox County will he held II lhomae-
ton, August "a
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Henry II. Moore, IN incorporate man.
shot himself in the side with pistol al
hangor, on Tuesday, Iii@ wifi, was pres
ent when he fired the shot II il doubtful
whether he lives.
The old kockland Gazette blossoms uut
in new dress Of type in which ii looks
as neat rs pin.
We are glad 10 learn that Mr.. Flwell,
Of the Portland Transcript, who has been
confined TO his house 10y illness for oyer
two months, is now able 10 ne on
The Belfast journal has found a mare
nest" Bangor Wing
Perhaps So. But it it il likely to he
troublesome. we can get Brother Bcochcr
to put il among his cases of '.nest hiding,
-lhc journal says that on Saturday evening
last While the telegraph operator of Lewiston
function was returning from visit 10 Il friend.
ne was startled 10 see direct in his pathway a
huge black bear Not knowing what to do he
stopped to mediate his best way of esrane from
me monster. bal luckily the bear did MOI cSpv
him.
The above is 4 remarkable story for
that locality. Won't the operator rise and
explain what his friend furnished TO color
their lemonade
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Now that the comet is gone, the moon is sun
posed to "take up the wondrou7 tail"
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The Maine Farmer has an article on the
subject of the fly, and the annoyance that
the house fly causes at this season of the
year. We have devised very simple and
etfectual method to be rid of this pest at
or editorial rooms Some wooden frames
are fitted to the window frames outside
of both sashes These frames are covered
with very fine wire gauze, painted to pre-
serve it from rust. These are screwed to
the window frames, outside The upper
sash can be dropped or the lower one
raised without regard to the screen. A
spring on the door keeps that closed, and
we enjoy almost entire immunity from the
pest of flies. Occasionally one comes in
when the door is opened, but he knows
that his fate is sealed, and alights upon
the window TO await blow from folded
paper The first cost of these screens is
| considerable. but they will last for great
many years In the fall they can be taken
of and put away. The same plan we find
to Worl. we'll i'll the dining room at home.
The nomination for Congress OF Hon
l.. II. OBrien by the democrats of The
third district, places before the people an
uneHceptionable gentleman as candidate
for that important position. Mr.. O'Brien
although young man, has had large
experience in the leading business inter-
csts Of his section, and has taken promi-
nent part in political affairs He thorough
" understands the wants of his constitu-
ents, and the unfavorable effect upon them
CT radical legislation But buried as the
third district has been under four thousand
radical majority, he can be expected to do
little more than to uphold the banner
which declares for better men and wiser
measures. In his unequal struggle he
will have the warm sympathies of thou
sands of good men all over the state.
The Democratic Committee of the Fifth
District, after repeated urgings and hang
ing fire like an old fint-lock blunderbuss
has called the convention to nominate a
candidate for Congress at Ellsworth, one
week from next Tuesday. Ellsworth is
pleasant place after people get there, but
it is one Of the most inaccessible in the
district. The time between the publca-
ton of the call and the assembling of the
Convention is totally insufficient for the
choice of delegates by notified caucuses.
we utter fervent prayer that this blum
dering may not foreshadow the action of
| the convention.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The kemebec journal has discovered a
new kind of paupers, Arguing against q
reciprocity treaty, it says
Having no taxes to pay and being a6le TO
get TABOR az pduper prices, Canadian farmers
can raise crops ut less cost than the farmers of
Maine or Massachusetts can.
This is a remarkable state of things,
that Of people paupcrized in conse-
quence of having no taxes to pay! Pro-
badly in some future issue of the Journal
we shall be called upon to view the spec
tacle Of citizens made rich in consequence
Of very heavy taxation. The republican
papers will make out case, if they keep
on
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Hon Ron bradbury was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats Of the First
District, ii their Convention at Portland
on Tuesday. II is fervently to be wished
that gentleman of Mr. Bradbnry's ahili-
ty and high sense of official duty and
honor could be chosen to represent that
when the influence and example of such
men were more needed We hope he will
accept, and we know that the men Of con-
sentative feelings, as we'll without as with
in the party, will rally about him with en-
thnsiasm There is q strong tendency in
Maine towards Democratic success. and
the First District is the place for its
earliest achievement
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The Legislature of Massachusetts has
appointed a committee, to sit during the
recess, for the purpose of inquiring into
the cXpediency OF revising and amending
the tax laws and the exemptions from
taxation. This has special reference to
the exemption of church property, and is
the expression of large and growing
sentiment that the great amount Of prop
erty which now escapes its Just share of
the public burdens, should in future be
made to bear its fair proportion. No snf-
ticlent reason can be given for eXempting
the costly church edlices and parsonages.
and thereby compelling other property to
add 10 their own burdens the share which
belongs to wealth better able to bear i.
Those who have reflected upon this in
Justice will look with interest for the re-
polt OF the Massachusetts commission.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13


From this ii viii be seen that the num-
Der of officials attached TO the Portland
Custom House has increased from 90 to Go,
and their pay from 500, l40 to S9S, 1872 per
annum This enormous increase NAV
we'll be called incredible. But the state
ment is fortified by the name and salary
Of every officer Of the force, and cannot
be denied
The reader may perhaps suggest that
the amount ofbnsiness may have increased
in proportion. But the Portland Argus,
from which we copy these lists, says that
in 1862 the total arrivals of vessels was
3,42S, of which GG1 We're foreign. In
1872, the latest year consulted, the arrivals
We're l.lOj, ul when .Ij7 wcrn fnrairn
50 that while the business has fallen off
fifty per cent, the number of officers en-
ployed has increased three hundred and
fifty per cent and their salaries almost
four hundred per cent!
1t may be assumed that Portland is 4
fair sample of the revenue service OF the
country. and this answers the oft repeated
question What makes onr tave7 so
high? "
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

PORTLAND. Me-. AugG. United states Mar
Nhal Marble brought from Tenants Harbor
this afternoon a seaman named II. j. Fuller
who attacked with 4 knife The captain of the
Eftln J.. Simmons while lying in st, John hal-
Dor. lie WAS brought before Commissioner
tiriord and bound o,rI.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

RB-Jn sending money, state THE POST OFFICE
to which the paper is sent az
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

lie was man 81 rather impctuUu1 tenn
permanent and when excited was prone to
indulge in language more iorcible than lie
ordinarily used; more 50 sometimes than
was actually necessary to rive force and
energy 10 his ntteranccs IL might have
grated harshly on the ears of some: MOI
so with those who knew him we'll, and
knew that. to use the homclv adaoe. "his
bark was worse than his bite" While on
a journey to The eastward his attention
was attracted to COW feeding by the road
side to which he took a sudden fancy he
bought her and sent her home by packet.
A few days alter her arrival she strayed
from the pasture in which she was kept.
After an Intellectual search for her through
the village he despatched one Hamilton
the next morning to hunt for her II. was
not distinguished for power OF intellect on
celebrity OF movement. As the day wore
on and he did not make his appearance
MIR. Angler grew exceedingly nervous
pacing the platform in front of his store.
back and forth, until he was almost at
fever heat. Endurance had almost ceased
to be virtue when Just before sunset III
made his appearance, slowly descending
ANA>s . 1913 three
dogs, at his heels. As soon as he came
within hailing distance Mr. Angler
screamed to him at the top of his voice,
"Where's the cow" H. stopped in his
tracks and screamed back, esquire. what
color is your cow" "Blue, by y
was the reply yelled back. Blue. like
Anglers cow became q by-word which
even to this day is heard in our streets.
ItiSnot to be inferred from the foregoing
that Mr. Angler was at all times impetu-
Gus; numerous instances are remembered
when all around him We're in a high state
of excitement and he was cool and self
possessed. He had at one time a flvorite
horse which he purchased down east. He
was driving down Main street, crowded
with ox-teams, when the horse became
frightened, wheeled suddenly, dashed
wildly through and among the teams and
concluded the performance by overturning
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

Al The last session the house passed n bin ia
erect New Mexico into q state, with voice in
the senate to ncutralze that Of Ohio. Yet il
mas not 10000 English speaking inhabitants
ana Is mixture of MeNicans, Indians, and
negroes, with scarcely any of the conditions of
civilization. The house did the same with the
wild territory of Colorado. These are Me
dofhgS Of Il people arAo hare lost all yes,1ert
for Me7T gocernnae7U. 1t is much worse in
local governments, for there the scalawae. the
nulllhtr' me advehtllrer, whose trade is TO de.
grade, IS preferred for public trusts to the best
ltizens. Government in America is thing OF
public contempt. The great republic, which
mas Dragged over the whole world as being the
best government the sun shines on, presents
the strange spectacle of u government whose
people have no respect for it.
The Gazette has nothing hopeful to pro
pose, but it is mistaken in thinking that
the people are rs Respondent as itself and
talk Of what ought to be with no hope
that it will be-" 1t compares the party
which has wrongfully arogated to itself
the name of "republicanism' with the
actual republic. In other nations admin
istrations under lower forms of govern
ment and incomparably less favorable
conditions of society have been rs corrupt
as ours is now, and they have recovered
from it. The recuperative power of ma
ture exists no less in the body polite than
in the human body. That honest men and
journals, viewing the case wholly from
what is called republican but it is really
an anti-republican standpoint, should de-
spair OF the republic, is not surprising
Regeneration cannot be effected through
those who have deliberately created the
evils of which they complain. But there
is no fear that the people will not either
find way or make one
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

REBATES & LOCKE, 81 Park Row, New York,
are authorized agents Tor procuring advertisements
for the Journal.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

SUBSCRIBERS desiring to have the address of
papers changed, must state the Post Office to which
the paper has been sent well the one 10 which
ii is to go.
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13
Joseph Titcomb,
For Members of Congress,
The Late Elections.

Third DistrIet-EDwARD K. o'BRIEA
The Republican journal., 1874-08-13

The barhrnIinr j. :. Au-un, Of Buffalo. \
~. has discharged at mon wharf Portland,
cargo of titty-our ~par~ for maStS. loaded nj
Lake Huron. coming VIA Welland Canal ana
Montreal TO Portland. These masts average
o. to 80 feet Ion" and ,u inches They arr.
of superior quality. Ser freight is $4,000, COT
signed 10 Hamilton 4 Co. The vessel i 80
tons, three mastS. square rugged forward, AMI
carries 900 tons coal will probably return To
hnhalo IN ballast. She is fastened with iron
spikes and bolts. W lthont trcenails
In 1873, on the 10Th Of November. capt NJ
+. Hodgdon Of Boothbay. master Of the schl-
Agnes, rescued from the British barque Tan
ger tWenty-one officers and scamen and
brought them safely into port IN recognition
of this act, the English government has for
warled to Capt. lIodgdon an elegant chronom-
eter inscribed rs follows " Presented by the
British government to capt, Vi. f. Hodgdon OF
Boothbay, Maine, of the American Schr. 'Ag-
nes,' i'll acknowledgement of his humane Scryi-
ces to the crew Of the barque 'raugier of
Liverpool, in November, 1873