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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-27
Maine and the Centennial.
OFFICE OF MAINE CENTENNIAL
BOARD. Portland, July, 1873

BOARD. Portland, July. 1910.
The American Centennial is now assured sue
cess, aud within year the nations Of the earth
will exhibit their choicest works of art, their man.
utacturcs, and The products OF the soil and mine
alongside our own, in the vast buildings and cnclo.
sures OF Paramount Park in Philadelphia. 1t is
now universally conceded that no previous Worlds
Fair ever had greater facilities brighter pros
poets, and We most earnestly urge the people of
our own state 10 res pond IN every possible way, in
order to be Justly cntitiei TO share of credit
for the great success Of this International ENhib.
ton.
Wenppeal 10 Jhc people al The STATE Tor lust en-.
position OF ouT industrial and material wealth. We
want the pro tuctS oil ouv Cation Mills along the
Saco and the Andre coggtu; tue tine WOolens that
have made Berwick, Na.ea,h"yo', Dexter, Hartlantt
and other manufactures f'm)rs; every ingenious
device and every voluah T. contribution to mechan-
zeal Skill the fnc.t sample Of SdTdcn and field
crops; specimens ofour @oods, wood manufacture.
and grasses and The finest products OF oar stock
farms our diaries aud our i-betiea.
And above all, we desire to have exhibited to the
nation and the world the vistncss and variety OF
our material wealth. We want collections of pre-
cious stones and metals; the lime OF Knox and
Aroostook the leldsparo! 'alahoc The r;cA IRON
ore beds OF katshdn and the tt' no:th; the Won
crful slate quarIics 'hAt pan FOWL hips aud coun.
ties and which coinpIi- aAi col hing every quail
ty the earth has every rrodu ed; tin MAJ, e!ous
granite, fon the pure white OF Halo"el!, to the
notified OF our outy ing islands, tlr red OF Jones'
port and the marble OF Deer Isle.
Full information as to space and classification
will be furnished by the undersigned. Coutribu.
tons shoali be ready by Jan. list, -.
Reduced rates oCtransp ortaton are prom cd aud
specific terms will be Seasonablv announced nv
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GELNER1L w rs.

GETER4L .NEVS.
Spain is spoken of as a nation capable Of doing
the most fighting with the least result.
Kentucky grasshoppers chew tobacco, making
away with whole fields in a single day.
The long disputed five per. cent tax on the Cen
trail Pacific Railway has been paid to the govern
ment.
Chicago fruit dealers have agreed to take regu.
lar supplies of fruit ana vegetables direct from
Florida grow Is"
Earl Russell has written a pamphlet on national
education, in which he advocates compulsory edu-
cation and free tuition.
The new Presbyterian Union formed in Lon
don has adopted the, name of the "Alliance of Re-
formed Churches throughout the World"
The number of Germans who intend to exhibit
in the art department of the Philadelphia Expos
ton is set down at eight hundred.
Charles h. Lands, the founder of Nineland n
j., has separated from his wife, in whose behal
he, little time ago, attempted to assassinate al
editor.
The condition Of spring and winter wheat
throughout the country, as shown by the returns
to the depal tment of agriculture, indicates about
SO per cent, Of an average crop
Texas has a new paper called the Thunderbolt
and the publisher says it comes "to promote the
welfare, safety and prosperity of the community
in which it is published"
A speaker at the Dublin corporation dinner, in
striving to compliment the Americans, spoke OF
"thc inimitable author of the Heather Chinee,
Mr. John Greonleaf Whittier"
A field of lava fifty miles square has been dis
covered in southern Utah by the biologists of the
Wheeler expedition, and one of 200 square miles
in Arizona and New Mexico.
Evidence of the highest importance was ELECTED
Friday at the trial of the perpetrators Of the
Mountain Meadow massacre, former bishop Of
the church farming States evidence and fully ex-
posing the murders.
A number of Boston capitalists are now about
to purchase from a Canadian firm patent fol
manufacturing india-rubber from the common
mk-weed, which for some time past has been sue
eessfully worked.
An editor, having asked an Illinois farmer fol
crop news, received this answer; Sand now the
reaper reapeth, the mower moweth, and the little
bumble-bee getteth up the busy grangers trousers.
leg and bumbleth.'
The Memories settled in the northwest Of Cam
ada have met with disheartcning failures. Their
crops have been more than half destroyed by the
grasshoprers. and good deal Of destituion is the
result.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-27
PRINCIPLES COMPARED



The maintenance of the high standing OF
the credit of the State; the promotion OF the
Development of its agricultural ana manufac,
turing resources the extension of educational
facilities; the prohibition by law
Of the sale of intoxicating iiq.
uOrs and the enforcement Of
that law the equitable adjustment OF the
burden of taxation, and the tightening OF that
burden to the fullest extent; and, in all the
exercise of that rigid economy that admits OF
no outlay for purposes of doubtful utility, and
demands full equivalent for every expendi-
ture; these are the objects the kepuohcan
party of Maine has had steadily in view, the
pervading principles of its common law, and
they all have the hearty support of my con.
viction and my sympathy the Speech
of Gen. Common at the Republican State Con-
rention, accepting the nomination for Cor
ernor.'
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DE.uOCR.sTxC DOCTRLvE.


And here, lest L might be mis-
quoted, L will say that the
PrOhibltOry Liquor Law, that
bone Of contention SO long up
ON our statute books, L never
favored, I never Ahall. L be.
lfeve It to be revolutionary i'm
spirit, q clog TO the wheels Of
business, demOr0liZ1DE In u
great degree to the cause Of
true temperance which IL pro.
claims to advance; and while 1
shall openly oppose 1t. small
the more openly and ZealOnsly
advocate such measures In this
regard as i asIM convinced Will
the better and more suabst0n-
TALLY cOndslce to the prOsperf-
~ of our state. and the gem
eral welfare of its citizens
From the Speech of Gen. Roberts, democratic
candidate for Governor, at the sere"ode an
Bangor.
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all their glorious history, and set the Sea'
of idiocy upon all their grandest achieve
ments, by ushering into power cohio'-
nation of men whose inspiration and hope
are in the degradation and betrayal OF the
nation. would be unworthy an American
citizen. and too absurd to find lodgme nj
in any honest heart. 1t takes long years
of tyranny and oppression to reduce A
great people to a state Of Indifference and
10 cause them to look without concern and
without dismav upon their ignominy and
their shame. 1t was only after long CEN
turtles of shameless lawlcssness aud tyrau-
ny, that the once great Roman empire
could be sold at auction to the highest bid
der and the day is yet distant when this
people will so forget their duty and their
honor. as to set their seal of Coudcmna-
tion upon all their achievements.
This then is the time for ali good citl-
zens to stand shoulder to shoulder; and
we believe that thousands who have not
yet affiliated with the republican party,
and thousands more, who, in 1872, fol-
lowed all old and trusted leader into a
crooked path, whose termination would
be nowhere else than in the present So
called democratic party, will now be found
in our ranks. And they are welcome!
Their hearts are with us, and let them
come. The party has yet bright future
before it, and it cannot afford to quarrel
with its friends over the past. 1t has free
ly used the scalpel and the broad-axe in
severing from itself the putrid excres
cences and deformities which are incident
to human government. and it is now
ready aud equipped for the campaign"
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POLITICdL.

Judge Fisher of Washington has resigned the
District Attorneyship.
The refusal of Hon. l.. Bradford Prince to run
against Mr.. Fred w Seward for the Republican
nomination for Secretary of State of New York
,eavcs the field clear for Mr.. Seward.
Mr.. John Lee Carroll, the democratic nominee
for the Governorship of Maryland, is one Of the
Carols of Carrolton, the sgner of the Declare
ton of Independence.
AS Mr.. Cleveland was leaving the Connecticut
House after his speech on woman suffrage, he met
a member who said che wouldn't vote to make q
man of his wife" Mr.. Cleveland responded, 81
hope your wife will succeed in making a man Of
you"
This is the exhaustive way in which the St. Paul
Pioncer-Prcss discusses the ticket of the Mime
sofa democracy at doesn't take more than two
or three rotten eggs to spoil custard-and that's
what's the matter with the democratic ticket"
The Providence Journal Office seems to be q reg
ular town hall. The editor says "During the
last political canvass we counted four caucuses OF
as many parties in this office at once and it was
not good day for caucuses either"
The careful Ohio correspondent of the New
York Times says: "The more one examines the
relative conditions surrounding the present cam
paign and the one two years ago the more appar-
ent does it become that the chances are over
whelmingly in favor of the Republicans
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-27

| BELFAST BAY is 4 SUMMER RESORT
As the warm and langud days of summer come
on, when labor seems burden and the bare main
tanning of existence quite as much as humanity
cares to cope with, there comes over mankind a
longing for the cooler and purer air Of the noun
tains the nvigorating breezes of the sea- shore.
There seems to linger in civilized man a portion
of the savage nature which at times asserts itself
| in desire for out Of door life the companionship
of the woods, the waters and the open sky, and a
yearning to throw off the artificial in life and get
close to the honest bosom good old mother earth.
1t is this which has made popular the mountain
regions and sea.coast of Maine.
| Oar own Penobscot Bay is acquiring reputation
as q sea side esort for those who seek economical
quarters with all the advantages of bathing, fish
| ing, sailing and cool breezes. The western shore
has become lined with neat and tasteful cottages,
built BY citizens of Belfast we'll persons re-
siding in the interior. Many Of these beaut-
fully situated, and have all the accessories Of com
fort The one nearest the city is that Of w. g..
FRYE ESQ at which he usually passes u couple
of months with his family. just below, and near
Little River, is ayery pretty cottage bnlll by Isaac
| Anald, the late Charles X. Thombs and others,
which AT other times than the tenting season is
the scene Of stag parties for the discussion of chow
ders, &c. Just across Little River, Henry l..
Lori and ii. j.. Locke have quiet little nests for
resorts on leisure days Below them Geor geG Il.
| Wells has just bought handsome half acre on
| which he will build a cottage. Next is very
| comfortable and slightly place recently built by
| George +. Pote, OF the firm Of Pote & Quimby.
| Still further down very handsome double tenc
ment building has just been finished by DR.. Lom-
| bard aud Fred Carrie, few rods south a similar
| building with stable by c. T.. Strickland of Ban
gor. These are the most expensive and commo-
! dious Of the summer residences. On a slight ee-
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MAINE.

The number Of barrels of fcrmented liquors on
which the tax was paid in Maine in 1873 and 1874
was 5o43 and II AL, respectively. Respectfully,
ID. D. PRATT, Commissioner.
Geo. Shepard Page, New York.
Everybody will see by a glance at the
above figures that there is IL great differ
ence between Maine and New Jersey in
regard to the manufacture of intoxicating
liquors, due to the fact that prohibition in
Maine acts as "clog" to the manufac-
ture. This manufacture and the business
of keeping grogshops is what General
Roberts had reference to when he spoke
of prohibition rs a "clog to business"
The manufacture in Maine, in 1874, OF
fcrmented and distilled liquors, Amounted
in value it appears to only S5l, jOS.69 ;
while that in New Jersey, the same year,
amounted to the sum of $3.50. 905 81
If we could obtain the facts as accurate
ly in regard TO liquor selling in the two
States rs in relation to the manufacture,
we should find that prohibition reduces
the traffic immensely in Maine below
what it is in New Jersey
OF course there is no denying that pro-
hlbition is Il clog to the liquor business.
but if General Roberts believes that the
people of Maine are in favor of removing
this "clog" and placing the State on Il
free rum basis he is greatly mistaken.
Our people are entirely wiling to give to
other States the pre-eminence in the liquor
business, while they stick to the princi-
pies of temperance so long upheld by the
republican party and now endorsed by
General Conner.
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Special Notices


Notice is hereby given that all officers, sailors
and soldiers, wounded, ruptured or injured in the
late rebellion however slightly, entitled to n
Pension, and thousands of pensioners entitled
to an increased rate. Apply Immediately through
DR.. r. Il. JACKSON,
Late surgeon, United States Navy.
No. 4, New Chambers ST., New York. oct2a.sptly
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pROHIBL7YON rs 4 CL0G 70 3
NESS.

IROWIBL1ION AZ A CLO6 ~ or
NESS.
The business which prohibition clogs is
well seen by the following exhibit OF the
value of fermentcd and distilled liquors
manufactured for several years in Maine
and New Jersey, which we find.in the
New York Tribune.
To tie Editor Of tie Iribuae
SIR: To refute the oft-repeated assertion that
there is more liquor sold in Maine than ever,
notwithstanding the Prohibitory laws" l beg to
submit the following letter from the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue reply to request to
be furnished with authoritative information on the
subject. Respectfully yours, &. S. L.
New YORK, July l6, 1875.
WASHINGTON, June l6, 1870.
SIR: In reply to your letter (not dated just
received at this Office asking for the amount OF
production of fcrmented liquors in Maine for
1873 and 1874 also for the amount of revenue re-
turned from Maine and New Jersey derived from
the manufacture and sale of spirituous and mali
liquors for the past five years, beg to transmit
the following statement showing the returns from
all sources relating to distilled spirits and fer
mented liquors for the several fiscal years ending
June 80, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1878, and 1874:
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mott Agreeable, Convenient, Effective
and Sore Remedy for
COSrIVENESS, DYSPEPSIA, PILES.
Pleasant to the palate, cause no pain, act prompt
", require Increase oil dose, do not exhaust
and for elderly persons, females and children, are
lust the thing. Two taken at night move the bow
els once the ne Xl morning. Warranted in IA Cases
OF the Plies and Falling OF the Rectum. We prom
Use cure for all symptoms of Dyspepsia, such as
Oppression after Eating, sour stomach, Splitting OF
Food, Palpitalons also Headache, Dilzness 3, Pain
in the Back and Ions, Ycllowness OF the Skin and
Eyes, sick Headache, Coated Tongue, Biliousness,
Liver Complaint, Loss OF Appetite, Debility,
Monthly Pains and all Irregularities, Neuralgia,
Faintness, &c.
Travellers find the Lozengcs just what they need,
as they are compact and inodorous that they
may be carried in the vest pocket, and as an aper-
lent or laxative these LOzengcs have no equal.
Trial Boxes SOC. largo Boxes 6Oc.; sent
by mail free of postage to any address.
For sale by +. ). HAKRIsoS n Co, No. IRE
mont Temple, Boston, and by all Druggists
The Yerisialtic Lozenges are sold by
PARTRIDGE BROS, Augusta.
sepS-spnt teddy
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Augusta Gas Light Company.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that the annua
~ meeting of the Augusta Gas Light Company
VIII be held at the Office of the company in Angus
10 O'Clock A. NJ, Tor the purpose OF electlpg hvt
directors for the ensuing year, and TO transact any
other business that may properly come before said
meeting. Per order of the Directors.
e.. NORTH, Clerk.
Augusta, July 2Gth 1878. iu!y2i,2S,3o
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21
A GRAssHoPPER STORY.
The misfOrtunes of a Kansas Woman
Who Put Painful OF Dirt under the
stove.

The misfOrtunes of a Kansas Woman
Who Put Painful OF Dirt under the
stove.
A gentleman who has Just returned
from Cherokee county, Kansas, is full
with remarkable "reminiscences of the
grasshOppers infesting that vicinity.
He will stand around for an hour, re-
citing the hair breadth Escapes of the
people whom the hOppers have COM
pletely Overrun, and who arc leaving
their homes and fleeing from the fearful
scOuTge. The traveller is inclined to
think that many of the crimes attrib-
uted to the James boys are to be traced
to the more hardened and dissOlute
grasshOppers, many of whom, he says,
are arming with shot guns and organic
ing a sort of home guard for offensive
and defensive purposes.
One OF his most credible stories is to
the effect that, a few weeks ago, a wO-
man dug up a painful of dirt in which
to plant some flower seed. She put the
pan under the stove, and vent out TO
see neighbour. Upon her return, after
an hours absence, she found seven
thousand bushels of grasshoppers gen
Grated by the heat, literally eating her
out of house and home. They first at
O1ACZAON4 VIC green BLldNl6b Oh Tie WluuOWB,
and then green-painted dust-pan. A
green Irish servant girl, asleep in one
of the rooms, was the next victim, and
not vestige of her was left. The stove
and stOve-pipe followed, and then the
house was torn down so they could get
at the chimney. Boards, joists, beams.
plastering, clothing, nails, hinges, door
knobs, plates, tin-ware, everything, in
fact, the house contained, was eaten up,
and when she arrived within mile of
the place, she saw two of the largest
hoppers sitting up on end and playing
mumble-peg with a carving knife, for
which should have the cellar.
The way the matter leaked out was on
suit brought against the insurance
company, which refused to pay the poll
cy on the ground that the building was
not destroyed by fire but the court
rendered a verdict for the plaintiff. as
she had proven that the grasshoppers
were generated by fire in the stove.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21

stakes seven feet long, sharpened at
both ends, and put the stakes down
firmly, laying fence rail on each side
of the stake. A stick of cord-woOd will
make three blocks for the rails to rest
on. A twelve-foot rail, or pole, is long
enough for four shocks. Shocks should
rot touch each other. We let the hand
that shocks them shake the vine again
as he puts them up, round and round
the stick, as high as he can reach, set
ting them we'll down, and putting on
cap of straw or hay, hay is best. AS
much as possible the nuts should go
next the stick, and the vines should be
so put on the shock as to shield the nuts
from sun and rain. In about four weeks
after digging, the nuts will be cured
enough for Manipulating. If properly
managed, the crop will pay well; but if
none are grown in this section, L would
advise J. G. D. to plant a small crop
only, to experiment with.-COo"atry
Gentleman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21
Southern Cattle for ENGLAND.

Three English steamers are at Gal
weston loading with cattle for England.
This is a new outlet, and may become
one of immense Importance to the
South. When Georgia and South Car
Olina were British colonies cattle add
beef were sent from Savannah and
Charleston to London. In recent times
king cotton has ruined the stock rails
ing business temporarily in the best
climate on the continent for that in5us
try-a mistake that will he remedied
some Of these days, for two collars will
come To the landhol3er as easily from
grass that needs no tillage, PRODUCING
meat, horses and wool, as one dollar
from any cultivated crop. There are
six hundred million acres south of Ma
son and Dixon's line adapted by nature
to grass. The idea of keeping cattle
on thousand mills, and having hun
dreds OF miles 0f verdant meadows
along such rivers a. the Tennessee and
Cumberland TO supply any number Of
stea mshiPs with sll TIE bssves they can
take away now seems Ethiopian 10 msuy.
but 1t will WIN M thC end. Nushcihr
Union 01d fmeric01l.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21

COME, AND LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
To the afflicted in body, we offer a
few words of plain, practical reasoning,
No matter under what form of sickness
you labor there is one great truth you
should ever keep in mind, viz: All dis
ease originates in an impure condition
of the blood. Purify that, and the dis
ease must depart, for it has nothing to
feed on; but you cannot purify the
blood by the use of poisonous drugs,
and exhaustive stimulants: the relief
which these afford is temporary and de
ceptlve, leaving you worse off at every
interval. The best Blood Purifier ever
discovered is DIR. WALKERS FAMOUS
VINEGAR BTrTERs, compounded of sim
pie herbs. No matter how hopeless
your case may seem, try the VINEGAR
BITTERs, and few draughts will con.
vince you of their value. DR.. Walker,
the discOverer of this priceless remedy,
had been given up to die by the Physi.
clans, and is now a sound and healthy
man from their use.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21
OLD TIMES.

1nere's beautiful song on the slumberous air
That drifts through the valley Of dreams;
II comes from cline where the rOs = were,
And tuneful heart, and bright brown bair
mat waves IN the morning beams.
SOFT eyes of azure, aud eyes OF brown,
and snoV-white foreheads are there,
glimmering cross and a glittering crown,
A thorDy bed and a couch of down,
Lost hopes and leaflets Of prayer.
rosy leaf and dimpIed hand,
ing aud plighted vow;
three golden rings on a broken hand,
tiny track on ths snow-White sand
tear and a sinless brow.
There's tincture of grief in the beautiful song
That sObs on the summer air;
Aud loneliness, felt in the festive thrOng,
Sinks down III the soul as il trembles a Ong
From cline where the roses are.
We heard it first at the dawn Of day,
And it minges with main chimes;
But years have d.stanced the BEAUTIFUL lay
And its melody h0weth swiftly away,
That we cali it now. d" Old Times"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21
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