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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-21
The Fisher Case.
Appointment.
CALIFORNIA.
Fire.

San Francisco, June 20. The Bay sugar refin-
cry was burned this morning; loss $3.50, 900. In
suiance $225 600 Owned by company, Herman
Lord, President.
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PORTLAND.
Death.

Portland JuLe 20. John Neal, the woll-known
author, died this morning. He was born August
25;h, 1893, and was consequently about IS years
old.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Fatal Accident.

Exeter, June 90. William Sawyer, II years old,
and the only child Of Prof. Sawyer of Utica,N. y,
thrown from carriage in Exeter, last evening,
and received injuries from which he died this
morning. lie was a student at Phillips Academy
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KENTUCKY.
Railroad Matters.

Louisville, June 20. The Louisville, New AL
bany 4 st. Louis Air Line II. r. was sold this af-
ternoon under a foreclosure of first mortgage
bonds. j. j. Brown was the purchaser, at the
nominal sum of SIS 900, for the bondholders.
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Portland republicans are preparing to give Mr..
Blaine a grand reception on his return home.
Augusta and the Kennebcc valley will not be be-
hird-hand in this matter.
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LOUISlAN A.
Lynch Law Run Wild.

New Orleans, June 20. The Picuayne reports
the hanging Of five negroes at Mount Pleasant by
band of white regulators who are taking the
law into their own hands.
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We notice that Cook the cheap store man of
IIallowcl has lot of great bargains in summer
goods. We have no doubt that those of our
readers who like good bargains can get their
moneys worth at his store.
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The Unitarian State Conference opened last
evening at Belfast with sermon by Rev. DR..
Shipper of Boston. Many eminent men of the
denomination are present.
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Thirty one vessels were towed up the river by
the Knickerbockcr Towage Co., Thursday
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For Sale.

4 very han lsome c. p. Kimball TOP BUGGY.
N Too ,,sht for my use. Call and examine at
DR., Bel, table, Pleasant st.
L. NJ. ID .LLlNGHAM.
June oOth l. & Ut
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Ratification Meeting.

Concord, June 20. The republicans of this city,
held meeting in the State House, tonight, to
ratify the nominations of the Cincinnati conven-
tim
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Mr.. and Mrs. ii. A. Dewitt have gone to the
Centennial Exhibition.
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Notice.
Piano-Forta Tuning and Remaining.

Plano-Forte Tuning and Repairing.
Mr.. George L. Dodd, from Boston, will visit
Augusta anu vicinity this week and next. (su0se.
qucntly every month";. Work solicited and war
ranted i'll all cases. tirst class personal and Man
ufactururs reference. Orders may be left at Frank
Pierce's and Horace Norths b ok stores, and with
Miss Julia Ciapp, No 81 Oak st.
(Tuuor and Manufacturer since 1915 } \. b. At
enton paid to the selection OF instruments for pur
chascrs, from |! &c tirst-class makers. jun2i-t2W
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Cincinnati Produce Market.
Cincinnati lime 90. 1870

PORE-s20 25a2O So.
LARD-steam llHal11s kettle, 13gl3k.
BULK MEATS-shoulders T-aL clear rib side
lJ4a-; clear sides IOZg--.
BACON-s houldersesHak clear rib sides 1(x
all: clear sides liI0llz.
WHISkEY--lO7a.
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On Sunday last, there were counted between
Richmond and Hallowell, sixty-seven ice vessels,
some loading, others passing down river with
their cargoes, and still others sailing up to be
loaded Quite fleet, showing the activity of
business lust now on the river.
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INTELLIGENCE OFFICE

.]fa!e un9 Eenaale Help Uan/ea ana
FURNISHED,
For All Kinds OF Emplo yment.
Apply to W. f.. 5. WHITMAN, GRANITE
HALL BLOCK, Market Square, Augusta, between
the hours of 10 and II A. NJ, and and j p. NJ.
apr1tU
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1t is the current report that the currant worm is
warming up to his work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-21

In acceptance of cordial invitation from the
Gardiner Reform Club, the Augusta Reform Club,
together with the Ladies Christian Union Of this
city, will visit Gardiner tomorrow evening, for q
grand love feast The steamer Clarion has been
chartered, and as most of the club will go, all
referred for particulars to the announcement Of
the special committee in another column.
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Devine & Howard have the endorsement of the
following physicians; q. w. Martin, NJ. D., w.
s. Hill, NJ. d., Il. L. Brckett, M. D., w. BOlan,
NJ. D., III. ii. Hill, NJ. D., j. o. Webster, NJ. D..
l.. j. Croker, NJ ID. eod-+u
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Boston Stock List.

Boston, juno 20, 1875.
[Sales at the Brokers' Board.I
Eastern Railroad 9xa10
Boston II Maine railroad, 9-a94x
POI tland. SacO 4 Portsmouth 63a-
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MASSACHUSETTS,.
4 Settlement.

Boston, June 20. The case of Robert C. Fan
ming VS.. James McGlew, Catholic Priest OF Che
sea, was settled in the Superior Court by mutual
agreement, Father McCilew presenting declara
ton in writing. and each party agreeing to pay
half costs.
The Turf.
Boston, June 20. June meeting at Beacon Park
oday First race, minute class, purse $500
Five horses started The race was won by ). G..
Grateful; Time-232, 2.36. 23S.
Second race, 2.2o class, purse $50. Five
started. Won by b 3. Ned Wallace.
Collision.
Ninevaidhaven, June 90 The steamer Panther
from Newburyport for Philadelphia. collided with
the schooner Mary w. Hupper, from Fernandana
for Bath, off Gay Head to-day in thick fog. The
schooner lost her bowsprt and head gear, and wa:
towed here by the Panther. The damage to the
latter is slight. The schooner will make Temporal
ry repair here and proceed.
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Financial.

A run was made on the Dry Dock Savings
Bank, to-day, in consequence of rumor that it is
not solvent. All the depositors were promptly
paid and the officers say that the bank is perfectly
solvent.
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local Ay3 BUSINESS NOTICES.

SAFELY and certainly that great external remedy,
Glenn'o sui hur Soap, removes cutaneous erup-
tons by opening the pores whose obstruction was
the cause of the difficulty Test and you will en-
dorse it..
Beautiful Shades of black or brown produc-
ell by HIPS Hair Dye. juneSt &w4w
"a stitch in time saves nine" A dose of Adam
sons Basam in season may prevent a long cold or
fever, and perhaps resultant death. 1t cures
coughs, colds, asthma, and all lung troubles. Keep
it in the house. Price 80 cts.
R,,.J,y
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WORSTED and CANVASS

OF all kinds and everything that goes with
worsted work.
INFANTS OUTFITS MADE TO ORDER.
Having recently visited Boston, all their styles
are the newest aud most elegant and fashionable.
PRICES VERY Low. Knife, Single and Box
Plating, done to order. june2.tAw
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The Turf.
Collision.
NEW YORK.


Weather.
New York, June 90. Heavy showers since 3
Q clock, low clearing, with southeast winds
Explosion.
The tug boat H. J. Workman, at pier 80, North
river, exploded her boiler this morning 1t is be-
licved there were three persons aboard. The body
OF one named Wright, has been recovered. \
deck hand and the fireman are missing.
Commodore Vanderbilt.
Commodore Vanderbilt was good deal easier
this morning than yesterday. The pains have
left him, but is very weak, and cannot move with
out assistance. His sons and several intimate
friends Of the family were with him all the morn
ing.
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Dff0.

Ia Bash 18th inst, Mary p. Hi2gas, aged 80
years.
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tharrteb.

In BATH. l4h inst John 4. Barnes to Miss Annie
NJ Carter, both OF Bath.
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Local anu State Nems.

The police made two arrests last evening.
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The Reformers of Gardiner, assisted by the la
dies, are doing their best towards closing up the
business of liq1or selling in that town. They have
signed warrants against all the hotels and eat
ing houses, with a request that they take out IL
ccrse, as authorized by law. The keepers Of the
eating houses say they will close their places first,
and the rroprietors of the hotels haventyet made
up their minds what to do. The "boys' Of the
club and the ladies have hesitation in signing
warrants against rumsellers.
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The miss ion by the Redemp.orst Fathers OF
Boston, opened in St. Mary's Roman Catholic
church, last evening, large audience being in at
tendance. The mission will continue until Sun
day next and services will be held each day as
follows . First mass at ) 100 A. NJ, followed by
sermon; second mass at 100 A. NJ, to be fol-
lowed BY sermon afternoon service for the chill
,iren at o'clock; at ! 80 T NJ, evening sermon
and Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament
A morning service will also be held N Hallowell,
in the hall of the temperance society, at o'clock
We learn by private letter that the Athens Re-
form Club is in most fourishing condition. 1t
was instituted under the auspices of the Skowhe.
gan club some three months since, and now con-
tains one hundred and seventeen iron-clad men,
hers made up Of the hardest drinkers of that Sec
ton Besides this number nearly two hundred
names are on the general pledge. Only one vo-
lation has been known. The club has good quar-
tiers, and are soon to give concert in which there
is great interest manifested We wish them all
success.
The New York herald., 1876-03-15
The PendIeton rransaction.

Hon. George II. Pendleton, of Ohio, a
leading democratic statesman, candidate for
Vice President on the ticket with General
Mcclellan, and an aspirant for the Presi-
dency, has been before the Committee on
War Expenditures to explain his connection
with the claim of the Kentucky Central Rail-
road Company against the government. Mr..
Pendleton says that the claim was for nearly
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars He
was president of the company and the
administrator of the Bowler estate AS pres
ident he made contract with himself as
agent, by which he was to receive fifty per
cent of the claim. The government, through
the aid of Mr.. Belknap, paid him the claim,
eighty thousand dollars of which he retained
as 'fee"-sixty-eigh thousand dollars going
to the company. He swears that none
of this money was paid to Mr.. Belknap or to
any of his family, or to any one representing
the Secretary.
1t is difficult to characterize this trnnsac-
tion. If Mr.. Pendleton received the eighty
thousand dollars for his "infuence" then
comes the uncomfortable reflection that sin
auence" is much too valuable, especially
when possessed by democratic statesman
over republican administration. If the
money was really due the road then Mr..
Pendleton, rs president, awarding him
self the larger share of the claim, is
in q painful position, one that will
admit of an intelligent explanation to
the stockholders of the road. If the
money was not due then Mr.. Belknap in
awarding the claim was guilty of breach of
duty, in which Mr.. Pendleton shares. 1t
opens up the whole question of Influence"
in the departments, question underlying
much of the corruption that has been devel-
oped in Washington. 1t is not long since
we had q suit against General Butler for the
portion of fee of twenty thousand dollars
paid him for his 'infuence" 1t is not
pleasant to see George H Pendleton in the
same business.
Altogether the transaction reflects no
credit upon Mr.. Pendleton, however we
may view it. He may have been legally
entitled to the money which he earned
under his contract. But morally the whole
business is job. It's revelation closes the
career of Mr.. Pendleton as a useful and
trusted leader of his party. 1t will be re-
garded with sorrow by the country.
The New York herald., 1876-03-15
A Parental Polite OF the schools.

Fathers and mothers whose children at
tend the public schools are often puzzled to
account for the sudden illnesses which seize
on their little ones, frequ an.ly bringing
them to deaths door, and too often past the
grim portals. The father whose business
pursuits limit the time which he can devote
to the care of his children cannot be held
responsible for evils which he has no oppor-
tunity of guarding against, and it therefore
becomes the mothers duty to protect
her children by exercising an un.
firing vigilance in all that concerns
their welfare. The mothers must become
the sanitary police of the public schools and
wage a persistent warfare against the abuses
which render these establishments hotbeds
of disease To q mother who has failed to
discover the real causes of her child's illness
we address the following explanation:-Ths
child has been sent by you, madame.
to a public school at considerable
distance away from your residence because
you have taken up the idea that the lady
principal is superior teacher. You take
pleasure in recommending your friends to
place their children under her care and her
popularity has crowded her school to such
an extent that the classroom in which your
daughter studies for six hours day II
literally packed with pupils. The child sits
near window and close to heater. When
ever the atmosphere becomes absolutely in
tolerable the window is opened, and q cur
rent of icy cold air rushes into the room and
plays on the right side of your daughter,
while her left side is exposed to tempera-
ture of perhaps from eighty to ninety degrees.
The delightful sensation of being cooled
makes the child q willing victim of this bar
barous system of ventilation, and it is not
until she begins to feel the chill creeping
through her system that she complains to
her schoolmates of being uncomfortable. But
the lady principal is strict disciplinarian,
and permits no pupil to leave her seat
during the hours of study. Your daughter
shivers for half an hour or so and when the
blood vessels of her head and chest are con.
gested and the flow of the vital fluid almost
arrested, the teacher discovers that there is
draught in the room and orders the window
to be closed. This order remains in force
until the room is again overheated, and
your daughter is again subjected to the cool
ing and roasting process already described.
She comes home some day in such condition
of prostration that you become alarmed, and
the family doctor has the difficult task to
perform of restoring her to health. In this
he sometimes succeeds after a long struggle.
but very often fails. If you had only taken
the trouble of seeing for yourself whether
your child's health was properly cared for at
school all this trouble would have been
avoided.
The New York herald., 1876-03-15
Gaslight and Other Light.

For about half century the people of
cities have enjoyed the luxury of gaslight,
which, as compared to most of the lights
that were before in use, is as sunshine COM
pared to a tallow dip. But in the course of
that half century very great changes for the
better have been made in other methods of
illumination. and very great changes for the
worse in the supply of gas. AT present
consequently, people do not regard the pos
session of this means of lighting their homes
MS an unmixed benefit, and can contemplate
without despair the entire removal of their
meters Formerly the advantages of gas
were cleanliness, convenience, safety, cheap
ness and brilliant light; but this was in
comparison with candle light and light from
lamps that burned fish oil or camphene.
Camphene was dangerous, oil smelled often
sively, candles only made darkness visible,
and all were dearer than gas was in the days
when the companies did not give their whole
attention to the enlargement of dividends.
Kerosene of the best quality gives q light
improved lamp light far superior to gas for
reading or writing-superior in the essential
elements of whiteness and steadiness in the
flame Such light costs one cent for about
five hours, and gas, for the same period,
would cost ten cents when the price is three
dollars q thousand feet. Such a light, there
fore, is cheap, good, clean, safe, and when
the lamps are properly cared for has no
odor. Under the system of inspection
maintained by the Fire Department in this
city explosive oil cannot be found in the
shops. Gas, on the other hand, is poor,
gives a dim light. is outrageously dear, and
its use puts the people at the mercy of that
worst of tyrants-an unreasoning monopoly.
The New York herald., 1876-03-15

fetichism. Freedom seems to have revived
instincts for the habits of heathens. At
Vicksburg they worship balls of cloth and
feathers. In several of the States they have
sprinklings of earth upon fire, or they all
contribute q bit of dust to tub of water and
then worship it. There is also prevalent
idea that one person may make another Ill
by casting upon him 'the evil eye" If one
negro has grudge against another he looks
evilly at him or he places dead hen upon a
fence, with the bill toward his victims door.
If the victim becomes i'll the charm has
worked. This barbarism is more widely
prevalent than we of the North suppose,
and perhaps we do not fully realize why
the white man does not wish to be ruled by
the witless black
The New York herald., 1876-03-15
Pledged Delegations.

Governor Dix's depreciation of the appear
ance at national convention of dele
CATION Of republicans pledged to the support
of some favorite candidate will meet with
that favor in public opinion which is COM
monty secured when any reputable person
expresses distinctly what is thought by all.
1t is in the same direction and to the same
effect as the more positive declaration made
q few days since by the Union League Club,
and is the essence of the movement which
seems to be making quiet progress, not for a
third party, but for the puriication of that
party against which the people are disposed
to revolt only because of its corruptions.
Republicans who propose to take an active
share in the attempt to purify their party
must not leave their opinions in doubt on
this subject of pledged delegation" for
Cincinnati. All the point of the battle is
just there, and if the vote of this great State
goes to Cincinnati as the property of the
Office ce-holders-to be delivered at the polls
to whoever will make terms with an
office-holders committee the republi-
cans of this part of the world will
have lost the last opportunity to save
their party. Pledged delegations imply, Of
course, packed conventions-tha the delega-
tion is the personal property of the person
to support whom the pledge is given, and
that that person will use its vote for himself
or another in any way that seems good to
him. The attempt to secure n delegation
pledged to any man implies also modest
apprehension on the part of such patriot
that if left to stand before the Convention
on his own merits he might not stand at all.
But the country is just now concerned with
other facts than the welfare of oil the hole
and-corner patriots who may secure pledged
delegations; and this is good time to have
national conventions restored to their char
acter as organizations whose fealty and obli-
CATION is to public opinion and to the voters
of a party, not to the jobbers and traders in
votes.
The New York herald., 1876-03-15


According to the last weekly statement
this insolvent bank was in a most excellent
condition on Saturday last, having a clear
balance of nearly two million three hundred
thousand dollars of dues over debts. What
are the weekly bank statements worth when
they convey such false impressions? What
a miserable cheat and farce it is to publish
such statements, which can serve no purpose
but to hoodwink the public. The de-
ceptive part of these statements are
the figures printed under the head of
'loans." In well-managed bank the
loans represent real assets-that is 10 say,
good debts, which will be paid on maturity.
A safely conducted bank, which makes no
imprudent loans, is put on the same level in
these deceptive reports with institutions
whose loans can all be called in and made
available within period of ninety days.
Bad debts are not property, and yet the
bad debts of mismanaged banks figure
rs property in the published weekly
statements, and it is this circumstance
which makes the statements so worth
less and misleading Loans which will
never be paid should not be reckoncd as
assets, but in the weekly bank statements
they are Jumped with collectible debts and
serve no purpose but deception.
The public has no means of Judging to
what extent the banks of the country have
deviated from sound principles and made
loans which they can never collect. Banks
which confine their transactions to the legit-
innate business of discounting commercial
paper drawn against real transactions can
never be in any great danger. The property
represented by the bills or notes which they
discount is a security for payment, and
when the loans come in at periods of thirty,
sixty or ninety days, they have the means
of meeting all their engagements. But
when they grant loans on speculative stocks
and shares or fixed property at inflated
values they go beyond the sphere of legiti-
mate banking and risk their capital on gam
bling ventures. We fear that many of our
banks are in this condition. The prolonged
stagnation of business has left so much
idle money in the hands of the
banks that they have been tempted into
speculative ventures, and the advances they
have made on property at fictitious values is
q source of danger which nobody can esti-
mate at its full magnitude. If we had any
means of discriminating between the good
and bad debts of the banks we could form a
more intelligent estimate of the financial
condition of the country
The New York herald., 1876-03-15

The FRENCH ASSEMBLY has been perma-
nently organized by tho election of the
Duke udifret-Pasquier as President of
the Senate, and NJ. Gr6vy as President of
the Chamber of Deputies. The subordinate
officers chosen represent decisive victory
for the republicans, under Gambetta's
leadership 1t is likely that NJ. Ricard will
be elected to the vacant life Senatorship,
and will, in consequence, retain his place as
Minister of the Interior. These important
contests seem to have passed of quietly.
The New York herald., 1876-03-15

A MISERABLE WRETCH was hung yester-
day at Hamilton, Ont, with unusual melo-
dramatic effect. The clergyman repeated
the Lords Prayer, and when he uttered the
word "deliver" the drop fell, and, as there
was no miracle, the criminals neck was
broken. We are glad to hear that the execu-
tion was we'll managed; but are not these
religious mockeries on the scaffold in some
what bad taste?