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Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04
GENERAL NEWS.

Moody and Sankey opened 10 crowded audi
ences IN Chicago on Sunday
The Chicago Lumberman says ;"Wih plenty Of
snow and no earthquakes, look out for a long
crop" Of logs!"
The Centennial has been great fastener of
marriages. People have rushed into matrimor y
so to go to the Centennial and on their wedding
tour at the same time.
The entire Sophomore class of Williams Col
lege was expelled Monday forenoon for rushing
the Freshman class last Saturday evening. They
are all commanded to leave within twenty -four
hours.
Mr.. Talbot, the new Solicitor of the Treasury
has made decision in New Orleans in which he
practically accuses Gen. Butler of conniving a,
private speculatons during the administration oil
the latter in New Orleans.
The indicative mood, present tense, of the verb
to 60, should now be rendered thus go to Phil
adclphia; You 60 to Philadelphia, He goes to
Philadelphia; We 90 to Philadelphia; They sll GO
to Philadelphia. Courier.
Crowd at the depot waiting for late ira in; affa-
BILE young man accosts gruf old gent; "Sr,
think have had the pleasure of meeting you be.
fore. Your face looks familiar" Old gent
"Does, chi Soil yours, fore you're olds sm.-
Sp,nlfeH Union.
81 sympathize sincerely with your grief" said 9
French lrdy to recently, widowed friend. ETC
lose such husband as yours" "Ah yes, he
was very good And, then, you see, such mis-.
fortune is always great, for one knows what kind
of husband one has lost but cannot tell wha
kind of a man one will find to succeed to him."
Joshua l.. Bailey, Quaker merchant of Phla
delphia, has started cheap restaurant to draw
the working-m from the ,ippling shops. The
bill of fare includes 20 varieties, all five cent.
each. The daily attendance is about 1000, and
about 40 walters are kept busy.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04
POLITICAL

Mark Twain presided at a republican meeting
on Saturday night.
The Collector Of the port of Charleston says
that more than fifty republicans have been sssas
snated in South Carolina since Tildeu's nomina-
ton.
The jolly campaign song away out West is
Blue Jeans Williams can't come in,
The color's good, but the cloths too thin.
The democrats propose TO send large delegations
of what they are pleased to term "Boys in Blue"
("Boys in Gray" in disguise) to Indiana to coun-
teract the effect of the Soldiers Convention 10 In.
dianspols.
The Christian Union hardly thinks at conso-
nant with the hi ghcst patriotism for any man to
suffer the country, in It's hour of peril to lack his
fair proportion of taxes because the tax officer did
not know what it was"
At New Albany Jimmy Williams concluded his
rambling talk with, "My friends, l will now give
way to more abler man" 1t is our opinion that
the people of Indiana will demand "more ADLER
man" for governor.-IndidnapoHs Journal.
Senator Edmunds recently said he had no doubt
the effect of Merrimon's bill, If 1t should become
law, would be TO take out of the United States
Treasury one thousand millions of dollars. Mer.
rimons bill proposes the repeal of sec. $40 of the
Revised Statutes, which forbids the payment of
claims for damages done during the war to per-
sons who were engaged in the rebellion.
Never has such change taken place within so
short space of time as has taken place in Ind-
ana within the last three weeks. The tidal wave
has set in favor of republican victory. All the
boys feel bully. Keep her up! roll her up for a
few days more, and Indiana is redeemed from the
rule of party whose leader denounced Alb raham
Lincoln as "a smutty old tvrant." Thomas A.,
you'll be put through the smut machine.-Lagfa.
cite (Ind) journal.
The indianapolis correspondent of the New
York Herald says This evening Mr. Blaine
spoke with extraordinary vigor before a densely
crow ded audience in the Opera House. He has
had far in this city the largest auditory of any
other speaker. His speech was given with a
huency and power that carried away his hearers.
In the matter of addres ses Blaine will bear away
the palm in popularity from all his colleagues.
He will stir up more enthusiasm within the next
ten days than any dozen of the rest, and, if any
single do it. he is the one to endanger the
success Of the democratic party"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04

The man who can visit the Centennial
exhibition and 60 home a democrat, says
an exchange, must have very little graft
tude in his nature. The priceless results o
republican wisdom and loyalty are gath.
cred together at Philadelphia. If demo
cratic policy had prevailed, we should
have had no nation to glory over, no GEN.
tennisl 10 celebrate, n, welcome to ex-
tend to the world. Strangers. instead OF
rejoicing over our glory. would have come
to weep over our shame. No true Amer
lean can gaze upon the wonders of the
International Exposition without feeling
increased admiration for the republican
party, whose courage saved the country
and made possible this Centennial Exhi-
bition.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04

The Connecticut town elections as far
asreported show republican gains. Should
similar result appear in the towns not
heard from yesterday the State may be
put down as certain for Hayes and Wheel.
rim November. In New England, where
there is perfect freedom for all persons tc
vote as they please, the republican party
prevails; in the South, where freedom al
the ballot-box is crushed out by the knife
and shotgun policy of the Tildenites, .he
democratic party controls. These facts
are seen and known OF all men. Comment
is unnecessary.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,

FoR ELECTORS.
A, Large. w. w. THOMAS,
NATHAN A. FARWELL.
Frs, Dist. SYLVESTER LITTLEFIELD.
Second =. |. WARREN MERRILL.
Third Z" BENJAMIN ID. Me TCALF.
Fourth " j. w POk Elk:
F,hb =. SETH L. MILLIKEN.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04

The report that Col. Il. A. Smith has re
tired from the position OF associate editor
of the Portland Press seems to be well
founded. His sharp and vigorous pen die
good service for the republican party, par
ticaarly in the recent campaign. We
trust his retirement from editorial work is
but temporary, and that the party and
the State will soon again have the benefit
of his ability and experience as journal
Ia
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04
From the Boston journal.
"Slaycry Dies Hard and Slowly


This is the language of one of the best
men in the South, ex-A,tDrney General
Akerman Of Georgia, and it is abundantlv
justified by the tenor of current ntelli-
gence from that section. If we had re-
gard to the lessons of history. indeed, we
ought not 10 expect anything else, for the
life of a great nation is so much longer
than that OF an individual that both its
adoption and its casting off of essential
influences are processes equally slow and
protracled But these things when read
of in history, which often gives but few
sentences TO the events of years, seem
very different from what they do when
transacted before our eyes. We are re-
minded of this truth by the recent publi-
cation of a letter, said to have been writ
ten during the last Presidential campaign.
to Hon. Charles Sumner, "by an honored
and trusted friend in Massachusetts,.
This is all we know OF the authorship; but
the letter was a most earnest and thought
al appeal to Mr.. Sumner TO revise "the
70 e-coIored view OF the situation" VIII ch
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04

In the Birmingham (Ala.) Iron Age the
following advertisement is published -
Confederate money wanted. Persons
having Confederate money or bonds, II ol
the proper issue and denomination. car
find a purchaser at fair prices by inquirine
at this office" After the election OF Hayes
and Wheeler that advertiser will conclude
not to take any Confederate money oI
bonds.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04

The New York Herald says "Mr. Blaine
is making great impression in Indiana
and is breathing new life and hope into
the republican side.'
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-04

Colorado held her first State election
yesterday. Georgia has her election TO-
day. The big guns speak next Tuesday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
sInrarr AM Errni.

Mr.. GreviIle j. Chester, in an article
In the Fortnightly entitled Some Truths
about Egypt" combats the prevalent
ideas as to the progress and development
Of that country. In regard to slavery
there, he'ssys:
1t is commonly believed in England
that the Khedive is opposed to slavery.
The man has so often said so TO the
Prince Of Wales and to other noble
guests that the mass Of Englishmen have
come to believe him. Nothing, however,
can be more absolutely contrary to the
truth. The real fact is, that the Kbt-
dive is the largest slave owner in Egypt.
There is not one Of the almost number
less palaces of his highness and his sons
and pashas which is not full to overflow
ing Of slaves OF both sexes, and they are
to be found in private houses through
out the whole length of the land Of Egypt.
The Khedive himself continually buys
them; and, in addition TO bis domestic
slaves, his highness, as he increases bis
stock of women, increases also his stock
Of those unhappy being who are specially
mutilated, and that under circumstances
of the most revolving barbarity, in order
to preserve the fidelity Of bis %concubines
and wives, which be finds he cannot Sc
cure by expensive presents Of French
jewelry. Let it be especially Noted that
to put Georgisns and other whites, who
are supplied through the Turkish mar
ket, out Of the question-African slsvel
can only be brought into Egypt by way
of Suez or By the Nile, and that one sin,
gle word from the Viceroy could stop The
importation Of q single slave into Egypt
or arrest their progress at any point oil
their way TO Cairo. That word, however
has never been spoken. Slaves are seer
#, daily descending the Nile in open day,
l have repeatedly seen them myself whef
, ascending and descending the Nile in 4
dGhGbeedh. / have seen slaves chained
together with iron chains; and on ont
occasion, a slave, heavily loaded viii
irons. attempted to end his hiseries b.
throwing himself into the Nile before m!
own Nile-bost. Only last year | wit
s messed the sale oil a young female slayl
by a government official at Assouan, VIII
: made i've pounds by the transaction
and who pulled out her tongue, shove
her teeth, and indicated the good point
of the poor little shrinking creature wit
all the zest Of an experienced dealer
This year | travelled in the traia iror
9 Suez with al Egyptian soldier, who ha
' with him q little Christian slave-bo
:. whom he had kidnapped from Abyssin,
while Christian England is looking 0
with AFFECT admiration at the spectacl
OF the emily Christian country in Afric
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
COLONEL A. 8. Y

This gentleman delivered an ex-
ceedingly well-tempered and con-
servative speech at the Greenlaw
Opera House last night. The au-
dience consisted of our most prom
inent and intelligent citizens, who
gave him their undivided attention
from first to last. A synopsis of
the speech appears in another col
umn, and it is printed in full by the
Avalanche of to-day. We commend
it to a thoughtful public for a calm
and unbiased reading. 1t was not
in any sense an aggressive speech,
as many bad expected. The valid
ity of the State debt was not dis
cussed or questioned, and no war
was made on bond-holders or any
other class. Mr.. Colyar traced our
financial troubles mainly to the
policy of contraction by the gov
ernment, which increases the
value of money and .diminishes
the value of property and la
Dor. He traced the effect
of this ruinous policy upon the
State and all its interests. No or e
could listen to the speaker with out
being impressed with the fac is he
presented and his conservat ism and
candor. He has evideD' cly giver
much thought and Study to th'
financial questions of the day
Many Of the points he made W,
believe are ncoAtrovertible, anC
whether admitted now or not b
all the advocates of high taxes
will certainly find ga Judgment,
as Andrew johnson used to say, il
the minds of the people. Nj
OOlyar's main argument was t
prove that the people cannot stan,
an increase Of taxation at presen
for any purpose, and that the bond
holders should be willing to bea
their share Of the shrinkage c
values as well as anybody else.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
On the war Path.

OMAHA, NEB June ga dispatch re-
ceived at the depot headquarters this
morning, dated Fort Laramie, June 7lh,
says the Indian courier from Red Cloud
brings this report: Just before he left
an Indian arrived from the mouth Of
Tongue river. he found there 1913
lodges under Sitting Bull. Crazy Horse
and others we're on their way to Powder
river to fight Crook on his return; mel
the same baud hat Egan saw on May
l7th. They told him they met Custer
troops and had fought them all day
many having been killed on both sides
but no result was reported. This oc
CURED about eight days ago.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
FOREIGN.

v1ESSA, June Sit is stated that
Count Andrassy has been asked to meet
Gartschakof and Bismarck at Ems,
but he has not definitely accepted the
invitation.
LONDON, June S.-The bullion in the
Bank of England increased $1,000
pounds last week; the proportion Of the
bank reserve to liability, 500 per cent.
Amount Of bullion gone into bank on
balance to-day, 10000 pounds.
BELGRADE. June S-The SERBIAN gov
ernment has declared that it will follow
the recommendation Of Russia not to
enter into hostilities against Turkey.
PARIS, June 8.-The specie in the
bank Of France has increased 1851, 0OC
francs during the past week.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June S.-Representative
Hale APPEARED to-day in behalf of Mr..
Blaine } efore the sub. Judiciary Commit
tee, and ]. A. Greene resumed his testi-
mon! saying the entire history of the
B.ansas Pacific road was a matter of
record in the Supreme Court at Wash
ington. At the suggestion of Hale the
record was put into the case. The wit
ness continued and said: The records
show that a Mr.. Blaine received $780,
900 Of construction bonds placed in tie
hands Of ]. B. Stewart by Thomas c.
Dursnt. This Blaine finally appeared
in the record as James BlAine-never
as James G. Blaine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
How the Emgle. Of saint. are Made

AMON NAO
A lady correspondent Of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, writing from Bar lie
Due, in France, describes some work
done at the statue factory OF M. Cham
pigneulles in that place. She says;
To the right Of the entrance stood the
haltcompleted statues, at whose feet are
young men and boys running knives into
their sides, picking at their eyes and per-
forming all the tortures which are record
ed as having been suffered by the origi.
nal saints. They had none Of them as
vet donued their white robes or pale fa'
ces, and suggested q gallery Of so many
posed Moors with their graceful forms
and dark skin. There stood in perfect
finish the dark figure Of some legend
saint, whose beautiful expression and
graceful folds Of his robes reminded one
Of pictures of ancient Romans. Next to
him was a Saint Joseph, without arms or
feet, while zeal sat the artist curling the
hair of the little Jesus, who also lacked
arms, which we soon discerned at the
foot Of the pedestal holding the customa-
~ ball. The process Of smoothing out
folds, separating toes, combiug out eye
brows, Strengthening noses and curling
hair we watched with much interest.
Various instruments we're used, a large
fat knife, smaller ones ofthe same shape,
chisels, and aver delicate paint brushes,
which we're first dipped in a basin Of wa
ter and their drops deposited on the clay
to smooth still more the dark, shining
surface. After the St. Joseph was ar
ranged and dressed with sufficient pre-
ciseness TO salty the artist, the little
Jesus passed through the same process
after which a stump projecting from the
right right shoulder was inserted in &
deep and dark looking cavity in the lef
breast Of the saint. By this means thu
smaller statue became a fixture Of th'
larger body, after which the artist ap
piled a quantity Of fresh dark clay, anc
with on adroit hand and deft instrument
succeeded In completely covering tn,
connecting line. Then were the small
arms clssping the ball added, theii
heightened ends passing into the socket
left in the shoulders of the small statue
Next the feet we're adjusted, and the lin
of their union with the body dissemblei
as in the preceding operations. Man,
: smoothing hourishes Of the knife werI
required, as we'll as piercings Of tn
chisel, before the required harmony wa
obtained, their workings being guide
: entirely by the artists eye.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08

being ~subjugated by her Mohammedan
ally. 1t is true that open slave-markets
are abslisheds but l could buy a slavs
myself tomorrow. i fonly l did it subrosa
for fear of the European %consuls. In
saying thus much. / do not wish It to be
understood that | believe slaves in Egypt
are, on the whole, ilLtreated. On the
contrary, l think that when once bought
they are well used. like other valuable
property, but they are undoubtedly
treated with great cruelty by the ~slavers
who bring them from the interiors and a
relic which was shown me in the British
consulate At Tarabulus Gharb CTrlpoli,
in Barbary), shows to what lengths a
Turkish pasta is capable going with his
chattel. This relic is a massive collar OF
iron, spiked like that Of a mastiff, aud so
contrived that the wretch upon whose
neck it was welded could not move bis
head without being impaled. This orua-
ment was fled of the neck of a slave
who had escaped from the palace OF the
pasta.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
T%tLtaRAPHIc BREYITIEs.

COlvin still holds on as Mayor Of Chi.
cagO.
The Queen Dowager of Sweden is
dead.
England was the FIRST power to rec Jog
nize Mourad as Sultan.
The Mexican revolution may be con-
sidered practically ended.
1t is not the intention at present to
convene a European Congress.
The Gear and the Emperor William
will be together several days next week.
The President has nominated Writ
Sykes (Olive Logsn's husband) Consul
to Cardiff.
Twelve hundred lodges of Indians are
reported on the war.path near the mouth
Of Tongue river.
The Grand Duke Michel, of Russia,
has arrived at Paris, and great import
ance is attached to the visit in political
circles.
There is not a trace of any disagree
ment between Germany and Russia, and
the situation Of the latter towards Eng
land is improving daily.
The Wisconsin State Democratic Con-
v%ention yesterday elected twenty dele
gates to the St. Louis Convention,
seventeen Of whom are for Tilden.
The Republicans of the District Of
Columbia have elected Ex-Governor A.
R. Shepard aud Treasurer Douglass
delegates to the Cincinnati Convention.
The Hamilton county Chattanooga
Democratic Convention nominated for
Representative Tom C~rutchfeld; Sheriff,
c. B. Champion; Trustee, D. B. Rags
dale.
Numerous Sclavonian journals assert
that a strong Russian force is being con
csntrated at Bender, on the river, and a
Creister, near Monesto, on the Turkish
frontier.
The London Standard states that pre-
parations have been made to dispatch
medical stores to Malta for 5000, in ad
dition to the force already on the Medi
terraHean feet.
} News is received that the Austrian
} government has again permitted 60OI
b~reach.loaders and several millions o
/ cartridges to be landed at Caltare foi
the Montenegrins.
: The anti-Coolie movement in Nevadl
is still brewing trouble. Three Of thl
ring-leaders we're arrested yesterday a
Carson, and their followers threaten Il
e tear down the Jail.
y The armistice granted by the Sultan
due to the couusels Of European powers
who simultaneously instructed thei
a representatives in Ssrvia and MOnten'
gro to promote maintenance of peac
: there.
Prince Karageorgevice's legion de
d fested the Turks zeal Carkoviko, Boz
/. MIA, on the Sd inst, killing l6O men. Til
following day 1900 Turks capitulatec
Many insurgents have ~petitioned Au
tria to grant them an asylum, allegir
tEatif they are refused they are in dal
ger OF starving.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
4 pn,ch Of CRIMINALS sentenced.


FARGo, D. T., June SIN the United
States Court here yesterday John White,
a soldier, was sentenced to ten years
imprisonment for killing John B. Colby
at Fort Pembina, on the 9th Of May, and
Vim. Brugmer to the same term for kill
ing VIM. McGee, an employe at Stan
dock Rock Indian Agency last Decem-
Der. Both would have been convicted
Of murder in the second degree and sen
fenced for life If this grade had been pro
vided for under the United States laws
Ira Baker was sentenced to five years
for larceny of government horses, and
August Wohlgmutb to two and a hal
years for manning.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
"Reminiscences of n Gallant Missis.
sippi brigade.


sippi brigade.
From the N. o. Democrat
We have recently had the pleasure OF
meeting in New Orleans two of our old
army companions, General Nat Harris
and Captain Holland 7. Coffee, Of Mis-
sissippi, The meeting Of these two gal
liant gentlemen calls to mind an incident
which occurred at the battle of Spottsyl-
vania. Harris Mississippi brigade had
suffered terribly--in fact it had been cut
all to p~ieces-but it never wavered. SO
heavy was the FIRE which it had sustained
that just in the rear of D of its regi-
ments an oak tree eighteen inches in dl'
ameter had just been cut down by mimic
balls. 1t was in the very crisis OF the
battle; Gen. Nat Harris gathered the
colors of a regiment, the color-sergeant
of which had been shot down, and sprang
upon the breastworks. Capt. Coffee.
Adjutant Peel and several other officers
and men were around. One of the Off
GERS said: General, drop those %colors, or
yeu will be shot" "Neverl' said Har-
ris, and Just then a mimic ball they we're
flying as thick as hail) struck the gallant
Peel in the head, dashing his brains and
blood over Capt. Coffee, who almost at
the same minute was struck by a ball,
which knocked him down. In that little
party several officers and soldiers fell.
The brigade was literally cut to pieces
one Of the regiments had every field Off
Ger killed, but it held its ground. Our
noble and gallant friend, General Harris,
seemingly escaped death by a miracle.
No more gallant brigade fought for the
C~onfederacy than this one. Featherston
led it through a number of battles, and
when he turned it over to Posey, re-
marked: General, the old brigade has
another good killing in it yet, He was
the Same old hero who, at Balls Bluff,
led his regiment into the fight, giving the
order to charge and drive them into the
Potomac or into helll' General Posey
died from wounds received at Bristow
Station. General Harris was then made
Brigadier, and commanded the brigade
to the close of the war. We are inform
ed that there is a general wish among
the officers and men of this Mississippi
brigade to have a reunion at some early
day, and we hope the idea will be carried
out, either at Vicksburg or Jackson.