The Republican journal., 1875-03-11
speaking Of the expenses of Knox
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tax this year double the entire county expenses
under Republican management.
Knox county should congratulate itself
Oh being so well off. Here in Waldo, with
population and valuation very nearly the
same asKnox, but under Republican man
agement, we have tax OF $4,000 with
county buildings built and paid for If
Knox, with an $4,000 court house just
completed, gets Oft with 1922 900, 1t does
very we'll in omparison-especia when
we remember that the project was sub
mitted to popular vote, and approved.
The Belfast Journal represents that the bill
of costs for the execution Of Harris as published
in the Free Press recently was incorrect. We
cannot say whether it was SO or not. We
should not wonder if Mr.. Crosses statement re-
ferred to by the Journal, failed to tell the whole
truth after all, and the one published by us were
substantially the correct one. We want better
evidence. [Rockland Free Press.
Then why don't you get from the state
treasury certified statement Of the amount
paid? Mr. Grose has made denial over
his signature, and it is now for the accuser
to prove the charge. That would be a
much more manly course than to deal in
inuendoes and insinuations Let us have
the official facts.
The Wing says that Collector Fox of the
Bangor Custom House, has determined to make
no recommendation for Deputy Collector at
Bangor, having concluded to do the work HIM
SELF thus saving the government the expense of
another official.
Now, Barnabas, is this great example
to be lost on your expansive mind? Five
able bodied men are employed to run the
machine in this city, including the head
centre, who occasionally comes over from
Stockton with the lingering odor of cod
| fish about him. All the receipts of the
district do not pay the expenses of collect
ing, and economy would seem to be called
for here if anywhere.
| Andy johnson ought to be the happi
est man in Washington, and probably is.
His appearance in the Senate chamber
was an ovation, and he walked beneath q
shower of bouquets. He has experienced
some strange things at the Capitol in the
past fifteen years, and has been the favor
tie Of fortune during the whole time BY
force Of his rugged and unyielding hon
esty he has made a name which will not
soon be forgotten.
| There's something wrong for the
brethren about that civil rights law. after
all. At Wilmington a negro was refused
drink by a bar-keeper, and Cutfee COM
| planned - but the commissioner decided
that civil rights did not apply to bars. If
Sambo and Cuffee can't step up and order
whiskeys straight how can they be equal
| to white folks? And with a Democratic
house, it is too late to amend. What an
oversight,
Col Waldron, Of the Lewiston Gaz-
cite, needs to look after his mailing clerk
| This week he sends to this office copy so
abominably Imprinted and torn as to be
utterly unreadable. 1t looks like rag
bag struck by lightning. We always send
to exchanges as fair copy as to subscrib-
ers, and the spoiled sheets go where in
every office they should-among the waste
| paper.
The Rockland people are just now
| admiring their new Courthouse, which is
undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and
substantial buildings of the kind in the
state, 1t is of brick and granite, IS by
So feet, handsomely finished, heated by
steam, and furnished with all modern con-
veniences
The Merchants Insurance Co., of
Providence, R. l., of which we advertise
the annual statement, is one of the insti-
tutions that never says die. 1t lost, at the
great Boston fire, $40 900 more than it's
whole capital, and paid every dollar Fred
Atwood, Winterport, is agent
-''Reading," says Bacon, ''makes full man;
conversation ready man." prog. Age.
1t is too bad to see the brilliant aphor-
ism Of the philosopher so mutilated. In
his essay on Studies, Bacon does say,
Reading maketh a full man, conference
ready man, and writing an exact man"
From an article in the Lewiston Jour-
nal, Governor Dingley's paper, copied in
another column, it would seem that there
is small chance for Wagner and Gordon,
if the full court shall decide that the Gov
ernor legally appointed the day for their
execution.
Dr. f. G. Cook, Of Rockland, who is
native Of Newburyport, finds that his
ancestral acres run into the silver mines
Of that region, and that he is liable to be-
come millionaire at any moment 1t
would be good enough for him.
Those Congressman enacted small
swindle at the close of the session, by re-
viving the franking privilege, under pre-
tence of aiding the farmer. What a ire
mendously virtuous body it was that has
just gone out of existence
The President undoubtedly did good
thing in declining to sign the bill for
equaHZlng the soldlefs DOunIy IL would
have taken two or three hundred millions
from the treasury, mainly to have enriched
let Of bounty sharks.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Jour
nal, writing from Waldo county. says
Some mean scamp in Belfast furnishes sundry
Freedomites with bad whiskey.
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thin" should compel that mean scamp to
furnish better article.
The Beecher trial drags slowly along
Three days last week were lost by the i'll
ness of juror. There is nothing of spe-
cial interest in recent testimony, as no
woman has sworn that Beecher used to
kiss her.
On Monday Bangor voted on the