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The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

-Ex-Gov. Weston of New Hampshire
was serenaded at his home in Manchester
on Monday night lie responded in a
speech, in which he said he should sur
yive the clamor which rancor and malice
had raised against him He had done his
duty, and nothing more
| An 'honest" Indiana democrat, when
| caught in the act of distilling, the other day
| explained that he was Just making little for
| his sick wife, merely twenty gallons. Lewis
| ton journal.
| The Journal should tell the whole story.
They offered to let him off if he would
agree to vote the radical ticket He is
loyal now.
There is no hope for Wagner and
Gordon. The Rockland Opinion says Sher-
| lit Tory has received letter from Gov.
Dingley advising him OF the action Of the
| court, and informing him that nothing now
remains but to 90 ahead with tie execu-
tons
The kennebec Journal speals OF the
great danger to be feared in placing in
power the rebel democracy which means
that great many thousand of radical
pap-suckers all over the country would be
in great danger Of losing their teats
All the railroad and steamboat lines
in the state, excepting the Boston and
Maine road, will carry delegates to the
Democratic State Convention and return
for one fare.
Drunk? Yes. Drunk again: Yes. Drunken
and drunken, and ottener and oftencr: Yes.
The leading article in the Wateryille
Mail of last week commences as above.
1t is sad, very.
Mr. Leonard, of Bangor who makes
the best fishing rods in the world, is pre-
pairing case for the Philadelphia Centen-
nial,
Lets see-wasn't Ciafin who has
been indicted for smuggling, one OF Bro
Beecher's right hand men, and swift wit
nesses
1t will do good to the patriot heart to
see those southern military companies
marching with the Massachusetts boys at
Bunker Hill to-day.
Gold and silver mines are discovered
50 thick and fast that we can't keep the
run of them Most everybody has one in
his backyard.
Senator Morrill,, of Maine, has been
appointed commissioner to negotiate 4
treaty with the Sioux Indians He is bald
headed, and can't be scalped
1t is now reported that the sentence
of Lowell, the wife murderer will be
committed.
The moral atmosphere will not be
much longer poisoned by exhalations from
that dirty Beecher trial.
ALL the members of the large flrm OF
H. B. Claflin and Co.. New York, have
been indicted for smuggling.
Gov. Dingley was serenaded at Ma
chias, and made some pleasant talk.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

Some discussion has been provoked in
the papers concerning the cost OF the ship
Henrietta, built last winter at Bucksvllle,
S. e. The statement which we made
some weeks since that her total cost was
$1,000 more than similar ship could have
been built for in this city, has been doubt
ed. The New York Bulletin, excellent
authority in maritime matters says
A leading authority at this port states that
the vessel referred to, the Henrietta, was GER
tainly built at a greater cost at Bucksvile than
would have been incurred at Belfast Maine, or
indeed at any of the Maine yards-at Bath, Ken
nebunk. Marlborough, Damariscotta, Thorn
aston, Yarmouth and other places. The ship
Admiral, 1000 tons. recently launched at Var
mouth, we are informed, did not cost over 1858
per ton, whereas it would appear the South
Carolina vessel cost at least S65 per ton. This
ability to build in Maine at less cost than at the
South is due to the immense trade done there,
| and the consequent superior facilities, every
thing appertaining to the construction of ship
being at hand, except the pitch pine which is
brought from the South The vessel
built at Bucksvle, it is estimated cost at least
$4,000 more than it would in Maine, after max
ing due allowance, for the fact that the builder
brought most of his supplies by way of New
York, as the Bangor harbor was frozen up at
the time. Moreover the Henrietta being entire
| ly Of pitch pine, it is said, she cannot obtain
more than nine years class in the Lloyds,
while Maine vessels (the frames Of which are
usually white oak readily obtain an eleven
years certificate.
Another objection urged against ship
built wholly of hard pine, is that the great
weight of her wood increases her draught,
and that her carrying capacity for heavy
cargo must be less by the difference be-
tween hard pine and oak-wbich is con-
siderable
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17
How Much is Coming

We remember that on one occasion dur
ing close political canvass of this city,
doubtful voter was approached on the
matter Of his casting q Democratic ticket
II don't know how it'll be, % was the re
ply = " whatll there be comm 2" The
coul Sc OF the editor Of the Prog. Age is
very much like that of the patriotic voter
alluded to. He shapes his course 10y what
is coming. When Barnabas was made
Collector, the Age was terribly indignant,
and bitterly assaulted the appointment
Now, even when the Collectors roguery
is proven it is his swift apologist. The
editor has seen something coming. When
MIR. Hale was nominated in 1872, it de
clared that he was utterly unfit for the
place, and that he could not have its sup
the Age advised that he be supported
The editor had been interviewed bv Hale
he had seen something coming. The new
office in the Custom House was denounced
at its creation as corrupt transaction.
Now that it is proven to be so. the Age
defends it. Has it seen something coming
from it And the merchants of Belfast
are assailed as being higher in prices
than Boston retail dealers Is it hint
that the opinion may be reversed if some
thing is seen to be coming? Next the
cheese makers of Waldo are denounced
as skim-milk manufacturers That's a
hint to roll one OF the cheeses into the
Age office, when it will become equal to
the product OF the first factories in the
country. The committee on ways and
means is doubtless very potent one in
the Age office
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

said the sister, ''and you must give her some
thing right away" 'Of course" said the doc
tor, but she's had something. She's the pill
ferer of the sherry" But when he came to see
the patient, he was alarmed at the dose she
must have taken, and he was obliged to pre-
scribe again. That cook tarried not minute
in that house after she was able to sit up am
sorry not to have to say that. instead OF that
She signed the pledge, which would have bceu
50 much more effective. GOSSIP
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. Gen.
Roberts Of Bangor. Hon. Joshua Nye of
Augusta, W. II. Simpson, Esq, Of the
Belfast journal, Colonel Fred f. Shaw
and Colonel Fred N. Dow of Portland,
with Hon. Enoch Knight, clerk, all mem
bers OF the Centennial Commission for
Maine, met at 4 1-2 p. m. yesterday after
noon in the Council. Chamber, for the
transaction of business connected with
centennial matters. Gen. G. w. Roberts
was elected president of the Maine Cen
tennlal Commission, the position RESIGNED
by Mr. Mcmillan. No other business Of
public interest was transacted. Portland
Argus, 18th.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

MAINE EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS Asso-
CITATION. The Excursion Committee Of
the Maine Editors and Publishers Associ-
alton have made arrangements with the
propretors of the Marshall House, York
Harbor, to entertain the Association for
the week beginning July 18th. From this
point short excursions can be made to Mt.
Agamenticus. the Cults and Pepperell
mansions, Kittery Navy Yard, the Isles of
ohoals. and other points of historical in
terest
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The Progressive Age says there are 20 cheese
factories now in operation in that county, and
intimates that there must be an Improvement
ip the quality of the cheese, as compared with
last wear, to compete with the New York and
Vermont cheese. Portland Transcript.
The Waldo farmers can see what kind
of a reputation is being made tor their
products by one OF their home newspapers
We don't wonder at the indignation felt
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The Prog Age charges that Waldo
County farmers use skim-milk for their
cheeses. Does any of it come from Pitch
er's Custom House herd? And if so, does
the editor OF the Age get a portion of the
cream
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

Subscribers are requested to take notice of the
is the only form of receipt now used For instance
10 May II, that the subscription is paid to IL LAT
date. When new payment is made, the date will
be changed to correspond, and SUBSCRIBERS ARE
REQUESTED TO SEE THAT THEIR DATES ARE
CORRECT. Subscribers in arrears are requested to
forward the sums due
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

Robert l.. Casey. in Portsmouth, r. l.
discovered man in bed with his wife,
and took revenge which was at first fan
tastic and finally tragic. He marched the
pair before the muzzle of his pistol to
clergyman, where he compelled them to
be married. Afterwards he returned, shot
the woman dead and wounded himself.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

An Augusta man who holds an Office in
Washington writes a letter which is pub
lished in the Kennebec journal. The writer
makes very apt comparison in the follow
ing extract
My position in Washington is a very pleasant
one in every respect, but am not Weaned from
Augusta where lived for so many years, and
for which my heart yearnS rs II $HchtHg chthf
for its m0thcT.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17
Democratic State Convention.

The Democrats of the several Cities Towns and
Plantations, of the State of Maine, are requested
meet in Convention by their delegates at Granite
Hall, in Augusta, on TUESDAY, JUNE 22d
III Oo'cock A. m, TO nominate a candidate Tor GOV
year commencing January /, 1876, and to transact
Every City, Town aud organized plantation Will
gate for every seventytve votes cast for the Demo
for 1872, and fraction OF forty five votes will be
mittcc will be i'll session the night previous at the
ton at the Aldermen's Room under Granite Hall
and determine all cases that may come before them
subject to the ratification of the Convention.
Arrangements have been made with the different
railroads to convey the delegates at reduced fares
Per Order of the Democratic State Committee.
i. +. PILLSBuRl, Chairman, kennebec
DARIUS Ii. INGRAHAM, Sec. Cumberland
DANA GOFF, Androscoggin.
j. c. MADIGAN, Aroostook.
L. ID. PILISBURY, Franklin.
A. A BARTLETT, Hancock
}. ii MARTIN, Knox
X. f. RUNDLETT, Lincoln.
A. 5. kIMBALL, Oxford
HENRY HUDSON, PiScataquiS.
WYATT WEED, Penobscot.
5. Nj. DU NELL Sagadahoc.
w. ID. HAYDEN Somerset.
l.. Fl. MURCH, Waldo.
W 5. PElVY, Washington.
JOHN BENNETT York.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The success of the Belfast fire bug has
encouraged a fellow to 60 into the business
in Bangor.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

We published last week, rs local curl
osity, the account Of Capt Dunham'S pur-
chase Of the supposed sword OF DIR. War
rem, who was killed at Bunker Hill As
a matter of tact, the Captain was deceived
in regard to it. 1t is we'll known, and
Bancroft records the tact. that Warren
wore no sword at Bunker Hill, and had
no command lie borrowed mushet and
took his place in the ranks as 4 volunteer.
The New York Sun is among the scot
fers at the farewell address Of the great
and good L. $. Grant. 1t says of the
amount received by the writer
We are not left in doubt As to the exact Jig
ureS, and bence the comparison is easy. The
pay of General of the Army is fixed by law ut
1880 That of the President has been so,
600 a year since the 4th Of March, 1873 and was
raised by the Presidents personal importantly.
From Washington to Grant it had never varied
from $4,000 a year, Now let us see how the
account stands:
Four wears President, from 1869 to
1873, at 80 900. ............ 500 200
Four years President, from 1873 to
1874, ut S";a, ............ 2oo,0oO
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

Patrick McAloon of Bangor was fined s. and
costs yesterday for swearing at a deputy sheriff
who was searching his place for liquor
The above shows in what tyrannical
times we live. A man who falls under
suspicion of having violated that foolish
law, and has his premises searched unsuc-
cesstully, has not even the poor privilege of
swearing about it And this, too, on the
hundredth anniversary of Bunker Hill!
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The Prog. Age is like the rogue that
joins in the cry OF "stop thief to divert
suspicion. With an existing and freshly
uncovered case of corruption in the local
custom house it cries ont that twenty
years ago there was a similar state Of
things under the buchanan admnistra-
tion--and that we have admitted It, That
paper always had a way OF sloshing all
about 4 question, and then if every loose
and untounded assertion which it makes
is not specifically denied, OF asserting that
it is all admitted We don't propose to
be led away from the matter in hand by
such means.
1t IS of course Very awkward for the
Age to def md the Collector when it is on
record rs declaring that he was unfit when
appointed, and received the Office in spite
of the protests of leading republicans.
But it is getting a share of the spoils, and
must bark at us when Barnabas directs.
We understand that. and make allowance
accordingly.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The Lewiston Weekly Gazette comes
out with an enlarged sheet and other
evidenced Of general prosperity.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

RS-BATEs LOCKE, "a Park Row, New York
authorized agents for procuring advertisement
for the Journal.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

some people think it is mysterious that Ameri-
cans should be Il race Of dyspepticS. Yet OBJ
serve a man sit down in a bakery, eat Il whole
mince pie and SET it aloat in quart of cold
water. Is his dyspepsia Il mysterious dispeh-
sation of the Lord? Lewiston journal.
Saint Paul, who was not only u jealous
Christian and excellent scholar, but a man
OF common sense, advised Timothy to
"drink no longer water. bnt use little
wine for thy stomachs sake" Timothy
had probably swlled cod water till he
had become dyspeptic Less of that chill
ing fluid and a glass Of light wine to
warm and encourage the stomach was
just what he needed. They understand
those things better in the OLD countries,
where children are taught to use and not
abuse the gifts Of Providence. When the
era of true temperance comes in this
country, it will Danish alike the excessive
use of cold water and of whiskey, by toler-
ating the rational use of light wines Then
drunkards and dyspeptics will be less fire.
quently met with.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

The Boston Daily Advertiser accuses
Gen, Sherman of ignorance in historical
matters
He takes strange liberties with American his
| tory, early and recent, which can only be- tN-
| planned by the fact that he has lived 80 long
| abroad that he has forgotten 1t, for instance.
! speaking in the first ten pages ot The contrast
| between the cavaliers VINO settled Virginia AMI
| the Puritans WHO took refuge ia New Eng laud,
| he saws of the latter, that, ing hearts ut
| rock and granite also, they ha'i 70 struggle
| against the rigor of the elements, after having
suffered SO much from The rigor Of their fellow
creatures. Prosecuted, they found there "A So
ciety of prosecutors. The exile of Roger vii
liams, and the hundreds of poor s0rcercr~ who
were burnt there, are sad proofs of this" The
story, of course, Is utterly grOundleSS. M
human being was ever burned in New England
for witrhcrapt or sorcery.
The General may have been mistaken
but il so he is not alone in error Fit
Green llalleck. himself a native of Con
nectcut and supposed to know its history
wrote in melodious verse
They burnt their last witch in Connecticut
About a century and half ago
They made a school house OF her forfeit hut
And gave plying sweet-hrier leave to grow
Aboye her thankless ashes; and they put
A certified description of the show
Between two weeping willows, craped with black
On the last page of that years almanac.
The directors Of the Shore Line Railroad met
at Machias on the 18th. Hon. j. G. Talbot Ot
East Machias was elected President, Joseph r..
Grant of Bangor, Nce-Presdent, and j. Sar
gent of Machias, Secretary.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, To submit to the towns along the
route the proposition to take ten per cent. of
their valuation in the stock of the road.
Resolved, To grade the road suitable for the
narrow guage, and Messrs. j. G. Talbot, JOS. f.
Grant and f. c. Pike of Eastport, We're elected
executive committee.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

1t will be seen by an article which we
copy from the Augusta Standard, that the
Democracy of kennebec are not disposed
to regard as final the reported declination
of Ger. Roberts of Bangor as candidate
for Governor. 1t is really to be hoped
that he may accept. A stronger candi-
date could not be brought forward. If
the great and growing discomfort with the
management of public affairs shall result
in political revolution in the state, as is
likely to be the case, it will be cause OF
qualification, both to the party and HIM
self, that Gen. Roberts has led the column.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17
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Excess in salary AS President. .... 1912 900
1t would have required more than twenty
two years for him General to have realized
the salary he will have received for eight years
as President. Or in other words, he could not
before 1891, as General, have drawn from the
Treasury the $500 900 which he will have drawn
as President, if he lives till the ith of March,
1877.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

In Connecticut the Democratic Legis-
lature has provided for submitting to the
people an amendment for biennial sessions
of the Legislature, and other reforms
This is in agreeable contrast with the ac-
ton of the republican Legislature Of Maine,
which last winter voted down similar
proposition. They We're unwilling to trust
the people with the decision of the mat
ter The trouble was that the adoption of
the reform would stand in the way OF too
many little party schemes.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17
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The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

They have found dead baby adrift in
the harbor at Rockland, and the Opinion,
in conjecturing its antecedents, remarks
that "probably it came down on the cbb
tide from Belfast, or some other small
and wicked town up river" We protest
against this insinuation. Belfast may toll
crate much wickedness, but it takes bet
ter care of those little waits than to send
them out with the tide Last of all would
it send them to Rockland, where the sup
ply is doubtless abundant.
We see by the Belfast journal that some of
the boys of this place came out second best in
a difficulty with some of the people of Belfast
recently. l am very sorry this should have
happened, for when the Belfast Engine Com
pany was at our place, they gave us the credit
of being first best, and we do not want to make
any backward moves. [Vmalhaven Correspond
ent Rockland Opinion.
The parties on either side who engaged
in it belonged to a different class from the
people Of Vinalhaven and Belfast who
have so pleasantly interchanged courtesies
Our report omitted to state that disturb
ing chap known as whiskey had good
deal to do with it.
The Republican journal., 1875-06-17

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The Republican journal., 1875-06-17
Gen. Roberts.

We have the best possible authority for
saying that if the Democratic State Con-
vention next week shall indicate decided
preference for Gen Charles W. Roberts OF
Bangor, as its nominee fer Governor, that
gentleman will subordinate his personal
desires in the matter, and accept the posi-
ton. We are reoiced to be able to make
this announcement, believing as we do
that no other candidate who can be brought
forward will poll so large Il vote He is
personally very popular, has Il record
without stain, and would do honor to
Maine as her Governor. Let us give him
full and enthusiastic convention, and a
strong support at the polls. We are among
those who believe that the tidal wave is
this year to visit Maine
Ellsworth American., 1875-11-11

\ COLONY OF MADMEN-The town Of
Ghccl, situated in the province OF Amt
Werp, has been for six centuries an ~
bodc Of madmen, and tradition even
takes the story back eleven centuries
There are 900 people in the place, and
they have charge OF 1900 lunatics from
abroad, who are boarded around in the
families, and treated with great consider :
atom The children from youth are IA
mlhnrized with the business, and all the
people know how TO manage those com
united to their care. The Inhabitants are
all. so to speak, engaged in the surveil-
lance ui the lunatics. One OF the great
e>t social punlshmentS that can be intic
ted on a family is to declare that it is
habitants according to their WeaItni Uf
station, wealthy patients being seut into
the better families, and poor ones 10 the
poorer. OF course the very immoral or
dangerous lunaticS are not thus dispos-
ed o. The cures average from sixty TO
seventy-five to the hundred. Gheel is
divided into four districts, each with its
overseer and physician. Large sums OF
money are spent i'll the pla ce by the pa
tients, and families generally are always
desirOus of having one or more luLatlcs
ON their hands.