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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
GENERAL NE VS..

rhinoceros, weighing seven tons, in the
Geological Gardens, London, fatally gored
two of the keepers of animals Thursday.
Ohio is going to send to the centennial
show cheese weighing IA tons. The ex-
port Of big cheese from this country to Eng
land, by the way, is very large. An 1nman
steamer from New York recently took out a
number weighing from 800 to GOO pounds each,
one weighing over 1900 pounds and one 22oo
pounds.
Hair dealers who buy in the French prov
inces the abundant tresses of the country
women pursue traffic that is something dan
gerous. Recently countryman, whose wife
had sold her hair, caught the buyer and shaved
his head.
The curious supposition is made in the
case of an insane man who drowned himself
the other day in Seneca Lake, that he COM
mitted suicide in an interval of sanity!
Alexander Jones, an old and respected cit
izen of Amherstburg, Ontario, died on We'd
nesday night. He served in the rebellion Of
100000, Was AT Uiiit az tt!S, anu at tHC
taking of the schooner Ann.
On the I'd of November marble slab three
feet by four in size was placed on the front of
a house in the village of Motier, Switzerland.
1t bears this inscription:
]. LOUIS AGASSIZ,
the celebrated naturalist, was born in this
house.
May 90, 1907.
Frank Smith recently returned to Denver
from hunting expedition, bringing the hides
of 10 buffaloes-the result of fortnights
shooting. The question there now is, how
long the buffaloes will last if Frank Smith is
allowed to go cunning whenever he likes?
A frightful mountain disaster is reported
on the Great St. Bernard. Eleven persons
were buried in the snow, and it is supposed
all have persisted.
In Decatur. Ill, baby of Mr.. Calhoun
tumbled into cistern, and true to the mater
nal instinct, Mrs. Calhoun jumped after it,
and there remained waist deep in the water
with the child in her arms, from o'clock A.
NJ, to o'clock p NJ, there being no one on
the place to whom she could call for help.
To prophecy that man will die with his
shoes on has been for immemorial time a
roundabout way of saying that he would be
sure to be hanged. Perhaps it was to refute
such predictions concerning himself, regard
ing them more in the letter than the spirit,
that a half breed murderer who was hanged
at Cheyenne lately. asked permission to take
his shoes off, as his dying request. The con-
ISOLATION he desired was granted, of course,
but to the unprejudced person it must appear
very slight.
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Dissolution of Co-partnership.

THE firm of Haynes, Foster & Co., manufacur
L ers of lumber at Wscasset, Maine, Is this day
dissolved by the mutual consent of all the part
ners. The business ut Wisca set will be continued
by the Kennebec Land md Lumber company, pur-
chasers of the Wiscasset property and the business
OF Haynes, Foster Co., and said kennebec Land
and Lumber Company will settle and liquidate the
affairs of said Haynes, Foster 4 Co.
Wiscasset, Me- Nov 10th, 1874
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
THE "BL0ODY SHIRT" MAKERS.

To the Editor the Kennebec Journal.
notice that the Maine Standard continues to
screech "Bloody Shirt" The recent wholesale as
sassination of our fellow countrymen in one Sec
ton ofour country seems to him very small mat
ter no crime, and when manly protest Is made
against such bsrbarism, he screeches out "Bloody
Shirt" No word of manly condemnation of this
slaughter Of many hundreds of his countrymen,
entitled to the same protection by law as himself
Nor do find in the Standard OF any democratic
press of the North, any manly protest against
these wholesale murders that have recently taken
place in the South. They were political murders,
committed at the opening of the recent political
campaign in the South, to intimidate and overawe
the weak and defenceless. The murdered men in
every instance were republicans, the murderers
democrats conservatives; the name taken by
those who for four years sought by blood, starva-
ton, and every crime, TO destroy our country.
These democratic conservatives, disguised by
masks and other devises, went prowling through
| the States, overawing by threats, and numbering
such as asserted their manhood and their rights.
Neither age sex, nor childhood escaped the muir
derous hand Of these numbering bands Of demo-
cratic conservatives. Let US look at a few of the
admitted facts, and if what is before stated is
not fully sustained by them. That sixteen Amer
lean citizens in Tennessee were led out for the
slaughter in body by these masked bands of Ku
! Klux, for no wrong done, charged with no crime,
| no man dares deny. That thirteen were butchered
in the same way in Louisiana, Is admitted by
every friend of truth and humanity That Billings
and Ivy were murdered in Alabama, is clearly
proved That the murdered men were republicans
and the murder ers democratic conservatives is not
denied Ivy was an officer Of the Government in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Layard brother of the British En-
bassador at Madrid, has been appointed Gov
ernor of the FIJI Islands, recently acquired
by Great Britain.
The policy Of John Morrissey is defined as
long pool strong pool and a pool alto
gether.
Mrs. Davis, wife of Bancroft Davis, United
States Minister to Berlin, is pronounced as
sensible as she is refined. She sets a good
example by attending church in attire of ex-
IRENE plainness and simplicity.
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POLITICAL.

The Eastern Argus has the news, that a
conference of the young Republicans of Port
land and Bangor ha, recently been held, al
which it was agreed that the name of Hon
Eugene Hale should be brought forward as 8
candidate for u. S. Senator. We think this
conference meeting" must have been small,
as the young Republicans Of Hancock, con-
stituents of Mr.. Hale, were not invited, and
have no idea of losing their Representative
among the mass of candidates for the Sen
atorship lying around loose in different parts
| Of the State. When Mr.. Hale is a candidate,
we think we shall know it. and will then no.
tify the Argus of the result OF our "confer-
enee meeting. EUsuorM 14merioan.
The Hon. George w Julian is spoken OF
as an available candidate for the United
States Senate from Indiana.
The returns show that the Republicans
lost six if not seven Congressman in Missouri
by staying away from the polls or voting
against their own candidates.
Delaware is peculiar at all times. This
year she has full Legislature, thirty men.
with not lawyer among the number. There
are farmers and merchants. philosophers but
not any lawyers-nor fools, we hope.
The Minnesota Election Canvassers
have finished their labors. Only the vote
for Congressman was canvassed. The ma jor-
ity of Dunsell, Rep, over Waite, Dem, is
1905. In the Second District the majority
for Strait, Rep, over Cox, Dem, is POI. In
the Third District the majority for King,
Rep, over Wilson, Dem, is 2,349.
Fernando Wood is "booked" for the next
Speakership, we guess, without any doubt.
With the Democrats the Nervousness of the
salary grab depends good deal on the poll
tics of the grabber, don't it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
Daily KennebeC Journal
DURING THE SESSION OF THE
rIrTy.r0uRIH LEGISLATURE Of MAINE,
Raeinnine January 6, 1875.

OFFICE OF THE DAILY kENNEBEC JOURNAL,
AND WEEKLY kENNEBEC JOURNAL.
AUGUSTA, November, 1874.
1t is unnecessary to say that every farmer, mer-
chant lawyer and business man, IN the state oil
Name, will be interested in the acts OF the MY
in relation to the dongs of that body while IN ses-
sion. go -
The DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL will give full
reports of each days proceedings during the ses-
sion, and will be
The Legislative Journal.
Subscribers viii have in it a complete Daily Pa.
per- with the latest news by telegraph from all
parts of the world, editorials local, state national
and foreign news, correspondence, &c, &c. 1t
will be paper indispensable to all who wish TO
be well informed from day to day OF the proceed
ings the next Legislature, and we offer 1t upon
the following very liberal terms -
One copy Of Daily Kennebec Journal. to
one address, for the session, $500; Five
copies, to one address. for the session,
SS.15; 10 copies, to ONE address Tor the ses-
siOn, $500. Additional subscribers 'ak-
en- at the same rates.
We shall depend almost exclusively upon the eff
forts of our friends throughout the State Senator's
Members of the House, Postmasters, and interest
ed parties generally, to make up large subscrp-
ton list.
Any person raising club Of fiye and sending
money as above to the undersigned, shall have an
extra copy for himself; any person sending the
money for ten as above, shall have an extra copy
for himself; fer every additional club of ten the
person raising it shall have additional extra
copy for himself; all clubs must be sent in one
package, to one address, tunless by special ar
rangemeut made at this Office
All clubs must be raised before the sixth day of
January as none will be received after the session
opens; only single subscriptions at the full rate
vii! then be taken. Those who want the complete
legislative record must begin with the first issue;
hack numbers can not be furnished.
Those who intend to raise clubs had better begin
in good season and not delay until about the be-
ginning of the session, as some have done in years
past, to their own loss and our great inconven-
fence.
brief Biographical notice of each Menu
Der Of the Legislature will be published In
the DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL.
SPRAGUE, OWEN & NASH,
Publishers of the Daily Kennebec Journal and
The Weekly Kennebec journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
"DOUBTLEsS THE
BEST COUGH MEDICINE
IN THE yYORI.D.s,

"DOCBTLESS THE
BEST COUGH MEDICINE
IN THE WORLD."
From olthe Oldest and very best Houses in
Americal
Messrs. CUTLER BROS. & Co.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March IL, 1872.
Please send us Ten gross small and FIVE gross
large vegetable Pulmonary Balsam.n This IL
doubtless the Best Cough Medicine in the
world Sssnes3 sold A AS E. eco r
over thirty years.
From one OF Bost MS most estimable citizans.l
No. Worcester So. BOSTON, March II, 1873.
Messrs. CUTLER Bros. Il Co.
In ordering another small lot OF your invaluable
Vegetable Pulmonary Balsasil.
| should like to tell you what know about 1t, in
order that others may have the benefit ofmy
EXPERIENCE.
Since this Balsam first came to my notice, in 1915
ing myseif to be out oft ot er night. In al!hese
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
it has not failed in single nstanc in my
TO give the desired relief; and will say the same in
regard to my mother, whose
LIFE WAS SAVED
by it as cannot but think Hers was a case OF
Congestion the Lungs, and although attended 10y
n most skiul Physician, she seemed to fail con
stantly 50 that we desparcd Of her recovery, when
an Old friend and neighbor persuaded her to try
this Vegetable Pulmonary Palsam. The res ut was
most gratifying, assure YOU
RELIEF WAS IMMEDIATE
and recovery rapid. She is now over 81 years old,
and is active and well. Whenever she gets Sc
we're cold, which happens in a while, she takes
thirty TO sixty drops according TO the violence of
the cough, which has always yielded i'll day
two by taking the Basam only on retiring at night.
With it the
IRRITATION
is at once subdued and good nights sleep secur
ed Will mention another case, that OF u young
lady acquaintance, who
RLED AT THE LUNGS
aad coughed lrightfully, had night sweats and was
feariuily reduced, She left Boston for her country
home. $50 miles away, as we suppose to die. sent
her bottle OF your Balsam, and soon had The sat
ieiaction to hear that she was much better. She
continued taking it Tor a while and got
ENTIRELY WE'LL.
and is living now, which fact is TO aScribed main
y to the use OF the VEGETABLE PULMON-
AIRY DALSAM. Very truly yours,
JOHN CAPEN.
As there are many limitations, be careful to get
the genuine. Price in large bottles, which are
much the cheaper, Sl.O0; small bottles, old style,
80 cents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30

As there are many limitations, be careful to &c
much the cheaper, Sl.O0; small bottles, old style
80 cents.
CUTLER EROS. & CO, Wholesale Druggists
Proprietors, Boston.
For Sale by ApOthecaries generally.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30

For Coughs, Colds g. Consumption, the
most approved and reliable remedy Is the we'll
known VEGETABLE PULMONARY BALSAM
Be careful to get the genuine. Price, large bottles
81; small (old Style so cents. CUTLER BROS 4
Co, Wholesale Druggists, Proprietors, Boston,
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28
A Nice Little Tale,

Nicholas /. was very fond of mas
querade balls, and one night appear
ed at one in the character OF the dew
il, with grinning face, horns and tail,
and appeared to enjoy his character
very much. About O'Clock in the
morning he went out, and throwing
over him some furs, be called a
coachman and ordered him. to take
him to the Quay Anglais. As it was
very cold he fell asleep, and when he
found the man had taken him in the
wrong direction, for the Quay An
glais is one of the most elegant por-
tions of St. Petersburg, while before
him were only some miserable
houses, Nicholas began to remon-
strate. The coachman paid no heed
to MIN, and presently passing through
stone gateway, brought him to a
cemetery, and taking large knife
from his girdle, and pointing it to
his employers throat, said: "Give
me your money and your furs, or
will kill you" "And do you give me
your soul," exclaimed Nicholas, as
he threw off his furs, and disclosed
his personifcation of the devil. The
Russians are very superstitions, and
the cOachman was so terrified that
he fell senseless on the ground, and
the Emperor drove himself back TO
his palace.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28

A plucky California widow has
solved the question of her personal
rights as a woman, and in so prac-
tical a way as to deserve, eOmmenda-
ton. Her husband died, leaving
her and their children no other
means of support than a weekly pa
per, published in Mendocino county.
She at once entered upon the desert
ell sanetum, and took up the editori-
al pencil, and pushed ahead, let Us
hope, to prosperity. Her salutatory
is more personal and less aggressive
than it might be: a..-
zone of the last wishes of my late
husband was, that. after his death
should become the editor and propri-
etor of his paper. Full well know
ing the inability of women to com
pete with men of brains, l take my
position with fear and trembling
trusting to the kindness and gene
rosity of the many friends and pat
rons of the Dispatch, and that the
right will always succeed. shall
gain courage as / advance-hoping,
it not to improve, at least to retain
the position for the paper that it has
already obtained-making of it real
ly the best newspaper in the county.
The great responsibility of three lit
tie pairs of eyes looking up to me
for protection-three little mouths
to feed-three little hearts to love
and cherish-knowing that their nat
ural protector has been called to an
early gave, may cause my position
TO be one of doubts and misgivings;
but such things have been done by
women-why not again?
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28
STATISTICAL HORROR.

The New York Erening Post, re-
Gently published the communication
of correspondent, giving the sta
tistics of the liquor traffic and CON
sumption in this country during 1870,
as taken from official records. The
exhibit, accompanied by some calcu-
ions based upon it, presents a
fright:ul chapter of statistical hor
rors. The aggrega of imported
and domestic distilled and spirituouS
l quors, brewed and fermented Ii
quors, and imported and domestic
wines, for that year, amounted IN
valuation to the enormous sum of
S1,4S3, 49l, $50. To this $9O,O0O,o 900
must be added for the cost of litiga-
ti,nS, crimes, and impriSonmentS, etc,
caused mainly by the use of intoxi-
eating liquors-swelling the expend-
iture to SI,573, 49l, ,865 for single
year. The liquor saloons in the Uni
ted States were l4O, 900, each having
by estimate forty daily customers,
making in all $500, 900 dram-drink
ers, spending for tn purpose during
the year $l,575, 600, 600.
The quantity of liquors of all kinds
drank was sufficient to fill canal
four feet deep, fourteen feet wide,
and eighty miles in length. The
drinkers, if standing in a procession,
4 FIVE abreast, would make an army
one hundred miles long. The de-
strpction of life by the use of intoxi
eating liquors was at he rate of five
hundred and fifty persons per day.
The places where liquors We're sold,
if arranged in rows, in direct lines,
would make a street one hundred
miles in length. The total number
of persons engaged in the liquor bus
mess was 100000, of whom 56,663
were employed in manufacturing and
selling 5,6S5,663 barrels of beer.
This number exceeds by more than
400, 900 the whole number of persons
in the United States devoted to
preaching the Gospel and school
teaching. The effects we have in
! 100000 drunkards imprisoned annu-
| ally for crime, 10000 more consign-
ed to drunkard's grave, and O,OOO
helpless children reduced to beggary
and want.
mThe amount spent for Intoxicating
liquors in the single State of New
York in 1870 was $246, ,6I7, 500; and
in Pennsylvania was 1852, 1868, ,495; !;
that IN Ohio was $l51, ,734,875 and
in Illinois was $119,933,945. These
four States were the banner States
in the liquor traffic and consumption.
New York City was also the ban
ner city of the country. It's seven
thousand licensed saloons, if placed
in rows in direct lines, would have
made street thirteen miles long.
The expenditure for liquors during
the year was $50, ,eOO,O 900, giving EN-
ployment to $4,000 persons; while
its churches, chapels, and public and
private schools cost but S4,5OO,0OO.
The consumption of beer per day
was 40, 900 kegs. The persons arrest
ed for intoxication were 65, 900. The
capital invested in the liquor bus
ness of all kinds amounted to
Sl4O,OOO,OOO. of which 100000
were invested in the business of man
| ufacture.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28

full force apparently except Foster
himself, who gave no sign of ex-
citement of any sort. This days
work is a good one. Fosters cOur-
age and success had the effect to
embolden Others, and Hale, of
Maine, Dawes, and Others followed
in the same strain, but not one of
them brought the blood with every
Lash of the whip as did the young
man from Ohio, who will yet gain a
national fame.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28

We find the following timely hints,
by NJ. b. Bateham, in the Painesville
Journal: .e. .. .r.
On dry soils a patch of garden
ground should be plowed as soon as
can be well done, for planting peas
and potatoes. If covered a good
depth, no frost will be likely to oe-
cur that will hurt them after the lst
of March. Early Rose Potatoes will
be in good demand next July, and
by planting quite early the tops will
get good start before the Larvae Of
the Colorado bugs appear; and the
beetles that wintered in the ground
can be picked off or poisoned with
comparatively little trouble we
must expect to fight for our potatoes
for a few years to come, but those
whq Sght will via,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28
ROW CHARLES FOSTER PEELED
BEN BUTLER. E-
Incense for the People of the Tent
Ohio District.

incense lOE Lne HcODAe Oh Enc
Ohio District.
Special Telegram to the Cincinnati Commercial
The Sanborn swindle was under
investigation in the House. ..a
The debate grew spirited and
was carried on principally by Butler
and Foster, to the intense astonish-
ment and delight af nearly all who
heard, and the House and galleries
were quite full. While everybody
else shrank back from the Massachu-
setts bully, Mr.. Foster boldly came
to the front, aud although he never
spoke more than five minutes at a
time before to-day, with perfect
composure and undisturbed nerves,
and without descending to slang or
forgetting that he was a gentleman,
lashed the braggart till his suffer
ings, as depicted on his face became
really pitiable. As he proceeded,
exclamations of delight were heard
all over the hall, ON the floor, and i'll
the galleries. ..1.. s-.si .si,-I ..I
In conclusion, Mr.. Foster rose and
begged to apologize for having men
toned the names of persons in their
absence, referring to Sanborn and
his tool, Lucien Hawley, of New
York, and stated that he did not
know, however, but that he was JUS
titled in mentioning them, as they
appeared by attorney. At this But
Ter turned from pale to a chalky
blue color, and, rising, could scarce
ly command breath to deny that he
was their attorney. But he gather
ed strengthto do it finally. If he
could not lie fluently, he would not
be Benjamin Butler. If Fosters un-
expected burst of courage and dis
play of nerve apparently surprised
nearly everybody. 1t certainly
could not have surprised Butler
himself, more if he had been charg-
ed with being a gentleman, and in
contestible proof, to sustain the
charge had been advanced. He
pnffed and blowed, and rolled his
head about on his shoulders, as
though he could not control himself.
He had brow-heatep Garfield,
Dawes, and nearly every one of the
leaders on the Republican side of
the House, and Just as he was con
graduating himself that he had bull
lied all into submission, he is met
by country member, young man
who has passed his life in mercantile
pursuits, in an obscure back coun
try hamlet, who comes forward and
with wonderful confidence stops
his ways, and 0morea than that I'M
horses him, holds him up as he new.
er was held mp before, because it
was done deliberately and without
passaion, to the scorn and contempt
of the country as the apologist and
advocate of the meanest, sneaking
ring of thieves and seoundrels, that
has ever been exposed in this ooun-
trv. unless indeed the formers ring
in New York, Mr.. Buffers other
precious possession, be excepted
The skpeE Wps seyEtsO, end ~ fs4'its
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28
Undertak1nS.


also Keep constantly on hands large assori
ueut oi ready made COTins, Rose Wood lmltatO,
Jack Walnut and imitation Of Black Wdlnuts- d
II which 1 can trim in two hours nouee, IN al
-Iyle reuuesteu equal TO any city also nave
piendid HearSe in readiness when esiied iOr-
GRAVE CLoTHEs-A new feature has recent
,eeu ADDED to this furniture establlsement-O
father to the Undertaker's department of lt--Oh
mat cannot fail 10 commend itself to the conlmun
~. and will show the disposition of the prOpriI
tor TO make his establishment as perfect ae ma
Je Ii will 90 fer to relieve the work and bustie
Incidental TO, and 80 repugnant in seasons OF b.
feavement OF preparing the remains OF the depar
ed for burial This consists IN keeping on han,
and ready for Immediate use, stock of grav'
clothes. variety shrouds, fol Doth male al
female, made up with much taste aud approprr
aIeness, various in price. and both black ALI
white materials. A single order for coffin MAY
therefore embrace the hatLliments OF the. dead
and thus save the friends of the Il ceased IN Ili
midst of grief fro nuch that seems particularly
iisagreeable ant Ineo. grnOus in the way of preph
ration for the grave. -
Ashtabula, Ohio, Jan. 1st, 1913. 1852 tt