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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-04-22
All the leading Patent Medicinel
Cheap.

Elmwood Collars for 25 cents box.
Ladies' ,sI Neck Z I Ties "a and ID Ruchngs Very Low.
Heavy Brown Duck Overhalls for Is cents.
All our Hamburg Edgings at Cost.
Ladies Linen Handkerchiefs, All Hemmed 10 cts
Largest Skeins Blue Mixed WOolen Yarn. rs cts.
Mems All Wool Double Heeled Hose, As cts. a pair
New Lot of Linen Towels for cents.
Another Lot Of Linen Table Covers for 40 cts.
Gest Glazed spool Cotton at 80 cents dozen.
Ladies' Handkerchefs. Full Sized. for 25 cts.
Atwood's Vegetable Jaund!ce Bitters, 25 cents
Hcwe's Arabian MilA Cure cheap.
Vinegar Btters 10 cts. Plantation Bltters 20 cts
Albums 95 cts. Writing Desks for IS cts.
Black alnut Work Boxes for S5 cents.
Vice qualify Not. Paper, 10
New Style Tinted Initial Note Paper. 20 cts
box.
French Corsets (Best We ever had) for so cts
New Lot of Leather Belts, good ones, for rs cents.
Gents Liaen Bosoms from II TO 81 cents.
cents Hemmed Linen Hd'ts from 10 to so cents.
Gents OvershirIs from 80 cts. to $500 eacn.
L men Table Covers for 40 cents aud up.
Good Hoop Skirts for IS cents.
cents, Nee Neck Ties and suspenders cheap.
GOOD Pins cents. Good Fine Combs cents
Ladies' Bustles for 20 cents each.
Twelve doz. Agate Shirt Buttons for cents.
Best OGyards Machine Spool Silk 10 cents spool.
Childrens Round Rubber Combs, cents.
Hoyt,s German Cologne only ~ cents.
Nice Large Linen Towels io- 25 cents.
Or. Cummings Vegetlne only So cents.
QUAKER BlITERS ONLY 10 CENTS.
Adamson's Cough Basam, 25 scents.
Nice highly Pcrnmed Hair Oil 20 +"
Ayer'sSarsaparillaa Cherry Pectoral each IS Cts
Peruvian Syrup preparation OF Iron) IS cts
We aim to Sell the Best Goods,
AT THE
Lo~c0t Prices
Of any store in the State at
COOKS CHEAP STORE,
IN HALLOWELL,
Iacl1.feutf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-04-22

have founded my business on the belief that the
public are anxious To get their seed directly from
the gr0,rer, and therefore Offer FREE to every man
ana woman in the United States who cutivates a
arm, tills vegetable garden, or plants flower
1,r ion, my large, Illus rated Catalogue OF Vege
tao and Flower Seeds for 1876; it contains, in ad-
hition to the choicest kinds produced in Europe;
one handred and ffiy rarieties Of vegetable seed
yr0wn on Bay fur seed fdrms. Customers of last
year need not lte Tor 1t. AS the original intro
'luc,r of the Hubbard, Marbiehead and Butman
Sqltshes, Phinney's Melon, the Mar0lehead Cab
bagcs, and score OF other new vegetables, solicit
your patronage. All seed sold under three war;
S. A hundred thousand cata !Ogues have been
Issued and sent out since the first of January.
JAMES j. IL. GREGORY, Marblehead Mass.
mari5-teod&W4w
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al!Gwtll Savings lnSituli,n.

DeDoStt~ yer @AOO,tbttO
Money deposited in Savings BaLks is not To b.
aXei 10 depositors hereafter.
All deposItors' accounts are private and conn
ienllal
Dividends made in February and August
and all iivid>Gds not drawn out are added TO the
deposits, and thus interest 10 compounded Nv ice
year.
Interest on deposits commences with the first OF
Zach month
Loans will be made on hrst mortgages to limit
ed amount and on bonds, mortgages aad deposit
cooks leit as collaterals.
Office over the Northern National INK WsLei
Street Hallowel.
II. X. BAKER Treasurer.
Hallowell, May 1874. mavl7tlaw-t 1T.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-04-22

All Sizes and Styles,
At PARTRlDGE'S DRUG STORE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-04-22
Advertising Agents
-ToR THE
KENNEBEC JOURNAL,
(Daily and Weekly.l

The following Advertising Agents are author
sed to receive subscriptions and advertisements
for tie kENNEBEC JOURNAL
BOSTON : IS. NJ. PETTENGnL Co., 10
State Street.
s. K. NILES, No. fremont
Street.
T.C.E EVANS, 252 Washington
st.
HORACE DoDD Washington
Street.
NEWYORK rs. NJ. PErTENGILL j. Co., 81
Park Row.
GEO. P. RowKLL & Co., 40
Park Row.
BATES & LOCKE, "a Park Row.
w. w. SHARPE & Co.
DAUCHY & Co., l9l Fulton St.
PHILADELPHIA Coz, WETHERELL Il Co.
S. NJ. PETTENGILL j. Co.
70l Chestnut street.
ST LOUIS, MO-, !: RowEIL & CHEsMAN, cor.
Third and Chestnut st s.
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Meeklu Eennebee Sonrnal,

Published every Wednesday morning, is the
largest folio paper in The State, containing news,
political articles. agricultural and scientific matter,
sales, poetry, anecdotes, household matter, mark
cts, &C., &c.
Terms, per annun in ddvdnce.
Transient Advertisements, 500 per inen for FIRST
week; so cents per week for each subsequent ill.,
serton.
Special Notices, $50 per inch for first week SO
cents per week for each subsequent week.
Business Notices, In reading columns, 20 cents
per line for first insertion 10 cents per line for each
subsequent insertion.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
Tramps.

We have nothing to say in favor Of the
class of tramps who 90 about the country,
year in and year out, begging and stealing
as opportunity occurs, hut we believe, with
the New York Graphic, that there is two
sides to the question. That paper says:
The scamps who are prowling about the
country, refusing to work, but neglecting
no opportunity to steal and commit other
crimes, deserve to be severely dealt with,
and should have no encouragement from
any quarter. But it should be remembered
that tor three years times have been ex-
ceptionally hard. Factories and furnaces
have stopped; mechanics have stopped
bua.ness, and honest and industrious men
have found it impossible to get work to
do. Every week or two our working city
people are told to 60 into the country,
where there is work enough at fair wages
tor whoever will do it, and the words of
the ancient philosopher, 8" Go West" are
perpetually dinned In the poor laborer's
ears. The people start for the land Of
promise without money, and soon become
sunburnt and foCtsore. They ask for
worx and are refused as vagrants, and beg
for bread only to be turned away as thieves
in disguise. In some towns they are
locked into the police station at night and
kept at work on the highway till ii o o'clock
in the morning to pay for their lodging,
and then turned adrift under the threat
of imprisonment if they return. If any
quicker or more effectual way has been
devised for turning man in quest Of work
into . 6rst-rste vagrsnt and thief than
this, it has not been divulged. The whole
theory is wrong from top to bottom, and
the first step toward getting rid of the
tramp nuisance il in providing work for
the poor people to do at nominal rates.
There is work enough in every city and
town in the country that ought to be
done. and can be pro6tably done now when
labor and material are exceptionally cheap,
and it is hundred per cent. Detter in the
long run to keep laborers at work than to
keep them in idleness or drive them out a.
trsmps. More work and iess penitensiary.
II doesn't abats q nuisancs TO roll it ovsz
into the naxt town.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
Mill Items.

JOLIET. ILL.,, Dec. 1.-THE report in
yesterday mornings Chicago papers re-
garding our rolling mills here is not true.
The fact is, that instead of shutting down
and leaving their 300 or 900 men to be
provided for, the Joliet Iron and Steel
Company began this morning on new or
ders for several thousand tons Of steel
rails, and will finish in activity the year
so begun and so carried through to this
time.
Nearly all the mills in Bay City, Mich,
have closed.
The iron mines of Wyoming are proving
richer than the gold mines.
The Progress says that the blast furnace
at Elk Rapids will probably make 10, 600
tons OF iron this year
The Neshannock furnace Of New Castle,
Pa, il being thoroughly repaired, and is
to be run on Bessemcr iron as formerly.
Eighty-6vs cents . day in the amount
paid the laborers now in the employ of the
Bethlehem Iron Company, at Hibernia,
N. J.
The English war Office has again re-
ducsd the recruiting stature Of The infan-
try, this time 10 . feet n inches.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
Over Seven Millions Of Votes.

The official votes for President are be-
ginning to come in from many of the
States. That Of Pennsylvania is as fol-
fows Hayes, 384, 14S; Tllden, 366, 204 /;
Cooper. 1908 Smith, S,lS2. This is a
total of 76O,7 737 votes, which il 7S, 35l
more than were ever before cast in that
State
In Ohio, Hayes has $50, ,69s votes; Til
den, 323. l82 Cooper, 3,057. and Smith,
l, 636. This IS a total Of 65S, 543, abou.
25, ,OOO more than were cast ia October,
and 6S. 549 more than the largest vote
ever polled before this year-which was
that for Governor In 1875.
Illinois has total vote Of 551 ,925. more
than lOO, 900 greater than ever before
cast.
Kansas casts total vote Of ia, 98l
without including the Greenback aud Pro-
hibition vote. The largest ever give be-
fore vas 1O0, 0,0lS, in 1872, for President
Massachusetts has pJlled more than
26O, OCO votes. Her largest previous vote
was 1876 885, in 1868.
Connecticut polls 20, 900 votes more than
we're ever cast IN the State btfore.
In Michigan the total vote will be about
80, 900 larger than ever before cast
In South Carolina the total vote is
l83, 1864, 900 more than ever before
cast
Virginia polls 15, 900 more votes than
were ever cast before.
Wisconsin cast 90, 900 more votes than
we're ever before poIled in the State.
This increase eeems to be general, and
Official returns from every State in the
Union will probably show q larger vote
in each Of them than had ever previously
been polled. The total vote for President
in 1868 was 5.724, ,684 in 1872 it was g..
All, l49. This year it will be over 1900.
600, and will perhaps reach z 500, 900.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30

A correspondent Of the New York Sun
writes as follows
have read with interest all the letters
in the Sun in regard to drunkenness and
remedies for it. As yet none have pre-
scribed what ! know to be sure cure. /
drank more Intoxicating liquor from the
year 1857 to the last day Of 1873 than any
other person ever knew or heard OF !;
and i'll the mean time, knowing this sure
cure, did not practice it on myself, but,
for fun, did practice it on many others,
and effected permanent cures. The rem
tdy or cure is this When a person finds
he must have a drink, let hin. take drink
Of water-say two or three swallows-as
often as the thirst or craving may desire.
Let him continue this practice. His old
chums will laugh; but let him persevere,
and it will not be a week before the appe-
tlte for any kind Of stimulant will disap-
pear al ogether, and water will be taken
to quench the natural THIRST. If at any
time the victim should feel a craving, let
him take the first opportunity and obtain
q swallow Of water, and he can pass anl
repass all saloons. When he goes home at
night he will teel satisfied and be sober
and have money in his pocket. / COM
menced this practice the first day Of 1874,
and never think of taking drink Of stimu-
lants. BUFFALO.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
THE FARMER.

The wheat crop Of the country this
year amounts to PAS, 600, 900 bushels,
which Is not 50 much az usual by about
one-sixtb. Rye, oats, barley and corn are
a little below the average also.
The annual report Of the Commissioner
of Agriculture shows the distribution dur
ing the past year Of l, $50, 900 packages Of
vegetable and field seeds and textiles, in
cluding nearly GOO, 600 OF vegetable, 372,-
900 Of flower, &C. 600 Of wheat, GA, 600 Of
tobacco, and 863 Of cotton.
For the trst eight months Of this year
India sent TO the United Kingdom 878, l7S
cwts. Of wheat, against l47 ,5l5 cWts. for
the same ti-:ie last year. Efforts are being
made to secure . reduction Of the rates ot
transportation from the interior Of India
to the seAboard, IN order n Offset the dis
advantages India lAbors under.
Agriculture is an employment the most
worthy Of the application Of man the
most ancient and the most suitable to his
nature. II 10 the common nurse OF all
persons in every age and conc, lion Of life
1t is the source Of health, strength, plenty,
and riches, aud Of q thousand sober de-
lights and honest pleasures. 1t iA the
mistress and school of sobriety, temper
Ance, justice, religion, and in short, Of all
virtues, civil and military. -Socrate5
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30

IMPROVEMENTS IN Miners LAMPs-
Messrs. Lee Brothers, ot Plymouth, Pa.
have recently introduced an improvement
in miners' lamps, which although very sim
pie, makes the lamp mu.h more durable.
The ordinary lamp cover consists OF three
pieces, the upper one forming the top, an
under one which is struck up 30 M To form
a plug, the GAnge of which Ia folded under
the edge of the top, and lastly another
piece soldered on, which forms the hinge.
The fame from the spout of the lamp not
unfrequently unsolders the hinges, and, Of
course, the cover il lost. The improve
ments Of Messrs. Lee Brothers consists in
making the whole top of . single piece Of
metal. The top and bottom pieces when
cut are left connected by . strip OF metal
which forms the hinge. The bottom iS
thus struck up and the edge folded under
the edge Of the top piece. The whole cover
Of the lamp 10 thus made secure against
unsoldering. As piece Of stamping, these
covers sre good examples Of very neat
work. The whole lamp 10 very neatly and
carefully made, care being taken that all
pArta are oil tight.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30

r=aife' ar .lHle A-lsn-, 1- la.rst q lh' ISL
= ss'T ssgT IlAILss Fa.-eylr sleV " u,as aSse-
mulAtsd.
Anv holazr 4. b Csrtlhea-e mas the privilege Of
sninIng condition q the trust At an ms on call
~ the Office If the Trustee
Certificates forwarded, ana interest, sneu due, rein
vested desired Or ramitted 1y draft Or express TO
any part Of the United States Address
SYDNEY MYERS Manager.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
Written for the WoRKiSGSAN's ADvooArE.
TuE RAIN.DROPs.
A Political Para BE.

farmer had planted his seed
The corn had been faithfully wed.
He trusts To the grain it NAV Yield
To give hts family bread.
But there is no rAin--not a drop
The sun Is severe with his rays;
. ! fear says the man Z" for my CROP
Poor man say his friends, As they gaze.
Two rAin-drops Aloft In the air,
Conversirg together. saws one.
That farm5r Is almost In despair,
SO scorching the rays " the SUM-
Tut what can YOU do says Inc next,
"A mere little rain-drop like you.
know YOU previously vrxed,
But are not 50 much As the dew"
II God In his time shall descend
And give him a shower Of rain,
The lightning and tempest may blend,
Reviying that desolAte PLAN.
The rainbow may also appear
And Riadden tbsmiiiiOs below -
Be quiet. nv friend, for I fear
We are not quite ready to 90.
greet jubilee is declared.
But Who can say when it will be-
! tell you We are not prepared,
II /. not fer yod or n me.
Perhlp, We are not" saws the nrst:
But when shall We be- | would ask:
The wo-st has now come to tLe worst.
When in golden sun hine we bAsk"
Nav, something iusp res nv breast,
T. cheer the poor farmer. At least.
And rather than 60 to nv rest,
/ Sill 20 as one 70 felst.
would not descend ia nv pride,
Nor wish other rAin-drops % slight.
But ~hat can 90 III decide,
And that will do with my might
Thus speaking with eloquent joy.
Down down, vent the drop on a rose
Dear me" says the mzr 20 hi. boy
" Perhaps theresa shower who knows
oh il would be timely relief
And see there's cloud in the west
And there was drop on that leaf
Al least We will hope for the best
The other rain-drops seeing this,
And how the poor farmer cheered up,
Looked down with some doubts Of bliss
But each With bis bright golden cup.
Collected Nhst rain was his own.
And soon a convention was there;
The wants Of the field we're made kno~n-
Twas truly concert of prayers
lively discussion arose.
For various indeed we're the views.
But coming together now shows
What torrents Z rain they sou 4 ase
SAID some shin ing ones 10 he rest
Our prophesies ten ot rain. nov
Whenever united we're blest
And olest in redeeming our vow
These rain-drups with zeal for tie Lord
Have promised that farmer shower
Thst God viii hi lsb5rs reward.
ses nov, they have trusted his power
Conhdil " in love and good siil,
Which some are 20 prone to distrust.
Why not We our mission fulfil
As God h,s ordained from he first!
~ viii 20, -" So will r. 50 viii r.
For no leading spirits sith "a.
s. ire acid is lou w-: i55i va dry.
There Is rain. as N Carmel OF old
The corn is revived au1 Nii grow
I tho't Of this moral just then
e" co We into all the world CO
Rsin down the pure gospel Amen
L D. GRosvESoR.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30

Sixty two Islands belonging to the
State Ut Maine were sold at auction this
week. and brought only . little over
d, 800.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30

-Tramway cars drawn by steam are
now run daily through the streets Of Brus-
sells, and In at least one other Belgian
town.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
THE
MERCHANTS,
FARMERS AND
MECHANICS
Savings Bank,
Perfect seour4ty--LiberaI Interest
rs Clark Street. Chicago.

EAeh gsrtln14ts Is secured By mortgage improved
ami productive real estate
TABLE Of increase Of Investment Ger
Incates. secured on improved Real Estate
bearing interest, payable In quarterly In
staIIment,, al the rate Of $40 per cent.
per anRHm. showing the accumulation Of
sums Inv rsIed for the benens Of ChiIdreA
or otherss
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
TIE CITY
SAVINGS BANK ]

BRANCH OFFICE.
No Nl Blue lSlaBd.aV., Cor. Twelith-St.
A. L. AMBERG, Manager.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-08
Newspapers at the Centennial.

The Special Correspondent Of the
London Times says il would be difficult
to find an apter illustration of the big
way in which the Americans do things
than that furnished by the Centennial
Newspaper Building" in the Exhibi-
ton grounds. Here you may see any
one, or, it, you like, all ofthe 1929 news
papers pnblished regularly in the Unit
ed States, and see them, one and all, for
nothing! You are not only permitted
as favor to see them, but invited, nay,
pressed, to confer the favor of entering
the building and calling for what paper
you like. 1t is about as cool and agree
able place-quite apart from its litera-
ry attractions-as a visitor to the Ex
hibition could wish to be offered chair
in. He may at first wonder how, among
5000 papers, among them such mighty
sheets as the New York Herald, he is to
get at the small, loved prin, of his home,
thousands of miles away, it may be, ov-
er the Rocky Mountains. But the
management is SO simple that, by con.
sulting the catalogue, or even without
the aid Of the catalogue, any one can at
once find whatever paper he wants.
They are pigeon-holed on shelves in the
alphabetical order of their States OF
Territories and their towns, the names
Of which are clearly labelled on the
shelves. The proprietors of the Cen
tennial Newspaper Building are adver-
tising agents, the largest in all America
-Messrs. G. P. Rowel, & Co., of New
York. Their enterprise will cost alto
gether about $4,000, or $4,000, includ
ing the building and the expenses OF
running" it for six months. The 5000
and odd American newspapers are de-
clared. by the same authority, to ex-
ceed "the combined issues of all the
other nations of the earth.n
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-08
Tie Citadel of Quebec.

One of the most interesting features
of Quebec is the walls of the ancient
citadel, being we'll nigh the sole re-
naming specimen of the architecture of
the early French settlers. As the city
has grown and extended beyond its old
boundaries, the fortifications were found
to occasion considerable inconvenience,
and their demolition was seriously con-
templated, Public opinion, however,
was 50 strongly against the idea that an
effort to save the ancient landmarks has
been successful The ramparts will re-
main. but they will he pierced at interv
ais by''gateways for purposes of travel
Lord Dufierin has taken prominen
part in endeavoring to stay the hand o
utilitarlan vandalism. and on the occa
| sion of his recent visit to Quebec an
nounced that Queen Victoria had under
taken the expense of one of the gate
WAYS, which was to bear the name of tn
| Duke of Kent.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-08
RELIABLE EVIDENCE.

The following unsolicited testimonial
from Rev. o. I. Walker, formerly pas
tor of Bowdoin Square Church Boston,
and at present settled in Providence, r.
l., must be deemed as reliable evidence.
No one should fail to observe that this
testimonial is the result of two years
experience with the use of vEGETINE in
the Rev. Mr.. Walkers family, who now
pronounce it invaluable:
PROVIDENCE, R. l., 164 TRANSIT ST
H. R. STEVENS, Esq:
feel bound to express with my sign
ature the high value | place upon your
vEGETINE. My family have used it for
the last two years. In nervous debility
it is Invalua ble, and recommend it to
all who may need an invigorating, re-
novating tonic. o. T. WALKER.
Formerly Pastor of Bowdoip Square
Church Boston.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-08
CHAs. L. SPENCER.
CuriOsities of the Twenty Cent
Piece.

San Francisco Bulletin, August 21.1
Two years ago the coinage of twenty
cent pieces was ordered. The object
was to reduce our coinage to the decimal
system. But, unfortunately, the twenty
five cents piece was also continued
Nothing was, therefore, gained by the
change, except the confusion resulting
from two coins nearly the same il size.
Hopes were entertained that by this coin
we would get rid Of the phantasmal
"bit," which, though it had no real ex-
istence, occupies place in all our trans
actions. But the twenty cent pieces
never entered into general circulation in
this city. Large numbers of our citizens
never saw one of the coins, though last
year ! ,253, 800 of them were turned out.
But the strangest part of the story is to
come. The New York Journal Of Com
merce charges that they are distributed
at the other side by some process OF
general public. The journal in ques-
| tion says that these twenty cent pieces
have been quoted in New York at twen-
ty per cent. premium or four for dollar
And this is not the least of the puzzles
which cluster around this coin. Why
should they be worth more than the
halves and quarters? Are they especial
ly suitable for small transactions, or dc
they furnish an opportunity for sharp
practices on people who are here not
used to handling coin? These are ques.
tions which we cannot answer any more
than those which are connected directly
with their. distribution. There is a
chance here for the use ofthe microscope
on a very extensive scale The history
of the twenty-cent piece all around
might make juicy reading.