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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-04-05
The Chelsea Murderer Examined On the
Charge of Murder-C0mmiited for TRIAL
and Sent to the Insane Hospital.


Charge of Murder-Commiited for TRIAL
and Sent to the Insane Hospital.
Page, the Chelsea murderer, was arraigned
yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, before Judge
True, on the charge of wilful and malicious muir
der. He appeared quite pale and trembled con-
siderably; one of his eyes was blood-shot, and he
spoke in weak, whining voice. His neck was
badly swollen. He seemed to listen attentivcy
to the reading of the warrant, and at its close,
when asked "What say you, Isaac l.. Page, Gull
ty or not Guilty :" for the first time since commit
ting the awful deed he showed contrition and sor-
row. lie replied to the charge, in a sorrowful,
subdued tone, II am not guilty, for know moth
ing about it. thought that they were after me-
that they were coming to take mel and was pro-
tecting her and myself. don't recollect of doing
anything; have been in this condition for year,
and people knew it all the time. They could have
taken care of me if they had wanted to- and saved
my wife, my children and myself But no; they
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-04-05
District Court of the United States,
for the District of Maine.

Augusta, March 30, 1876. mar2S-tlwGw3w
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

''himself and wife" If Tweed had been put
In Tooker's custody he would have been
kept prisoner in proscenium box for life.
"Pique" is another play which is being
advertised very literally The excitement
In this case is about the authorship, which
Miss Rose Rayland, one of our correspond
ents attributes to Florence Marryatt, while
MIR. Stephen Fiske. another correspondent,
insists that it was written by Mr.. Daily.
These letters display an intense and pas
slonate interest in this important question,
and we printed them with pleasure because
we believe that advertising deserves to be
encouraged. 1t is, of course, unnecessary to
state our belief that they are written by
different persons Mr.. Fiske agrees with
US, and thinks Miss Rayland's letter was
written by three persons. Why not by half
a dozen? 1t would be great thing for
"Pique" if its authorship should create as
much discussion as that of the "Waverley
Novels" or the Letters of Junius," or
whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare"
But still more exciting question may arise,
and that is, Who writes the letters Is it pos
sible that Tooker, not having enough occu-
patton, has volunteered his invaluable aid
We shall be glad to hear from Mr. WalIack
on the subject of his theatre. Is it true that
" Married in Haste" is a base plagiarism of
an Indiana drama called "Divorced at
Leisure?" If it is, or is not, let him write
to the papers. What have Messrs. Shook
and Palmer got to say about the fifty law
suits concerning Led Astray?" We wish
to hear from all managers in distress, all
authors who have grievances, all actors who
want engagements, and it shall not be our
fault if they are not advertised all over the
world 1t is our wish to serve the theatrical
profession, and as criticism does not seem to
do it much good, we are willing to test the
value of anything that managers may be kind
enough to suggest
The New York herald., 1876-01-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Maine lets men make cider.

Maine lets men make cider
Fremont Is sixty three years old.
A California snow storm scattered 100 900 sheep
Now they speak of old ''Dan Tucker, ofvirgnia
Adcna Patti will be thirty three years old Februar,
10.
Miss Wyatt, OF Ohio, has a head as big as Danol
Websters.
An Indiana man has II, 900 cat skins for sale He IL
patron OF the muse
Darwin says:-"Man Is the only being OF the anima
creation that abuses the female OF his race.
Danbury NesOG-Elihu Burritt can drive a strange
dog out OF his yard in thirty three languages
Wyoming Territory paper says that eggs and woot
have come down Omeets and rolling pins
Mrs Senator Boutwell,, over green gros grain stripes
with white green and white striped gauze.
High land rice is lighter than that cultivated 10
water also softer does not bear the pcstle az
we'll
Chevalier RossI, who was recently cremated, is do
scribed as rare young man Thought he was well
done.
The most notorious horse thief in New Mexico has
boen killed. and there is nobody left 70 edit news
paper
The Hndoo merchants or Calcutta described AZ
the most wary, willy and unprncipled people in the
world.
General N p Banks having been crushed to earth,
rises again. Now he is up and now he IS down.
regular bobbn boy.
Its so hard to find an honest onicial In Paterson.
~ j. that the people think Of inviting tramps TO "a
and run the town.
Mr. Robert G. Watson, First Secretary OF the British
Legation at Washington, sailed Tor England yesterday
In the steamship Russia
Two Milwaukee journalists fought their hrst round
in Turkish BATH and they going 10 fight the
ond round in a soup house.
s. B. Mills, the great pianist, is preparing book ol
studies for the planoforte upon his successful
method Il will appear in the spring
Gail Hamilton says that girl should pick outs
husband AZ she picks out an apple Aud Brstou
thinks man should pick out his girl as be picks Out
his apple jack--a little above proof
California Assombiyman nearly killed news
paper correspondent for calling him an ass News.
paper reform has practically begun
Boston Post news itoml.--The removal Of Ceners
shermans headquarters 70 st. Louis deprived wash
ington society Of It's best dancers
The Boston Traveller says:-"The birth Of child IA
the Imprisonment OF soul" 1t must DO the newly
incarcerated soul that haloas like bazcs to get out
The Boston journal asks why is IL that there are
so many smart boy babies and so few smart men ,"
Did you think you we're smart whom you we're a babyt
In his speech to the singers 10 Vienna Herr Wagner
exclaimed:-"I hate the newspapers because they
doavorod 10 render my efforts rdicuous never rcaa
a newspaper"
member got In by saying that he counted 1000 birds
flock. The editor Of the Washington ReDueIseda
wants 70 be an honorary member
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

WEST PoNT was under discussion in the
House of Representatives yesterday, and the
democracy had an inning to show what they
would do in the way of retrenchment We
think the democratic majority will do well
to act carefully. in the direction they ara
taking. In their anxiety to make record
for economy they may be expected
to slash in all directions, but il
is doubtful if they believe in
their own scheme in its entirety. They have
abuses enough to deal with, but cutting SO
many inches off everything indiscriminately
is not craftsmanship. 1t is true the demo.
Gratis count on the rectifcation of the Senate
to settle the matter, but the onus of increas
ing the estimates will rest upon the repub-
licans; and this is just what the democrats
desire.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. In another column
we give report made to the Smithsonian
Institution by DR.. w. NJ Clark, of Ten
nessee, of the exploration of several
mounds and an examination of the relics
of an apparently prehistoric people. The
mounds examined were near Franklin,
in Williamson county, Tennessee. 1t ap-
pears there is range of these mounds ex-
tending from Florence, Ala, on the Tennes-
see River to the Upper Cumberland River,
near Monticello, KY, and those examined
were in this range The largest is an isolated
point which commands view Of the level
country for many miles, and the mound
proper, four hundred feet in circumference,
is twenty feet higher than the terrace on
which it stands This might originally have
been at once lookout, stronghold and an
altar for human or other sacrifices. The
utensils and idols taken out appertained
either to people different from the Indian
race known to us, or to that race at time
when it possessed some conceptions that
were lost ere the earliest navigators from Eu-
rope reached these shores.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27
oameron ana stanIar.

we 40 not see any necessity to enter into
comparison between the relative good work
performed in Central Africa by these bold
explorers. If Mr.. Cameron has not accom-
pllshed all that he might if he had left Ujiji
for the West Coast at the head of we'll
appointed expedition, he has surely done
better than If he had turned hack TO Zanzibar
instead. The information brought by a keen
observer, who has crossed the continent ot
Africa where it is nearly three thousand
miles broad, is doubly welcome when wa
know that it has been done under excep-
tional difficulties and in the face of DELAYS
and disappointments. That he was pre-
vented from following the broad Lualaba to
its mutation into the Congo or the Nile is a
misfortune, but he has sent US an observation
of altitude which, if verified will dispose
of Livingstone's theory almost as effectually
as absolute exploration, though it leaves the
mystery of the river as great as ever. 1t is
much better to examine what Lieutenant
Cameron did see than to regret what he did
not, or to balance doub: against theory re-
garding what he guesses at or takes on hear
say. Hence the full story of his journey
from Nyangwe to Loanda may be looked for
ward to with deep interest by those who
study the ethnography of the African con-
tinent as well as its geography, and its social
and commercial as well as its natural features.
Ii there Is any real regret to be made in the
matter it is that Lieutenant Cameron has
SO barely outlined his experiences A little
more communicativeness would rot have
taken the edge on the curiosity with which
his fuller descriptive work will be welcomed;
for, Of course, he will write book
Meanwhile we get glimpse once more OF
Mr. Stanley in the sadly interesting letters
of M. Linant de Bellefonds, who was so soon
to lose his life after writing them. We see
Mr. Stanley busy with his great work, rich
in spirits and in hopes, pushing off to CON-
plete his survey of the Victoria Niyanza.
What he had accomplished up to that time
we have already published in the letters
which were borne by Colonel Bellefonda
when he met his death at the hands of tho
savages. From our gallant explorer we may
fairly expect the best possible results. Ha
has mastered the secret Of African travel,
knows how to be civil and conciliatory when
he can to pay tribute where it is needed, and
is able to fight when he must. The determi
nation of the position and size of the Albert
Niyanza and its connection with the Central
African water system will engage his atten-
ton when he has disposed of the Victorian
Lake, and, this accomplished, we may look
for q solution of the other great problems
which the successive travellers before him.
English, German and French, have left un-
solved.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

Now THAT THE TRUrH is leaking out about
the French Senatorial elections it becomes
evident why the government kept back the
returns so long. The voice of the nation was
against NJ. Bullets conservatism, and it is
not in him to gracefully acknowledge q
defeat which must make his tenure
of Office impossible or compel him to carry
on the government in manner which will
rob France Of the quiet she so much needs
aud make all sorts of catastrophes possible.
AS the republican majority in the new
Assembly will be doubtless still greater than
that which is computed for the Senate
Marshal MacMahon had better be looking
about for more popular adviser, as we do
not think that gallant soldier would risk q
civil war or q coup d<tat for the sake Of keep.
ing ON impracticable in Office.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27
Aut Caesar, Aut 1ooker, Aut Nullus.

Aut Caesar, Aut 7oolker, Aut Nullus.
Anybody can advertise, but the great point
often is how to advertise sensationally.
This is not always to be done by saying,
Don't Read This" or 'How to Get Rich in
Day." or such mysterious inscriptions on
walls as rs. L. G. X. X. Y" Sometimes it
is necessary to paste bill on o Prime Minis
ter's hat, so that when people imagine they are
looking at Disraeli they are really looking at
''The Shaughraun." No doubt that the Prime
Minister has been fattered by the attention
recently paid him in public but the fact is
he was looked upon principally as the adver-
tising agent of Mr.. Boucicault Notwith-
standing Mr.. Oakley Halls non sequitsr that,
because Dickens did not expose Dotheboys
Hall and the Circumlocution Office merely to
sell his novels therefore Mr.. Boucicault did
not demand the release of the Fenian pris-
oners with the object of attracting attention
to his Irish plays, the public will continue
to look upon his letter as a masterpiece of
advertising strategy which any advertising
agency in New York might emulate in vain.
But Mr.. Boucicault is not alone in the noble
art of making indirect use of great statesmen
and governments.
If Shakespeare had had Tooker he would
have been as rich as Jarrett 4 Palmer. But
that inventive genius was reserved for the
nineteenth century and New York and
William died comparatively poor. He never
conceived that his tragedy of Julius Caesar"
would be produced with fifteen hundred
Irishmen, each six feet high, to represent the
Roman army. He never thought that the
students of Yale College, accompanied by
''the Professors of Ancient History" would
be made accessories to the murder in the
Capitol He did not dream that Governor
Tilden and the State officers, both houses of
the Legislature and the Court of Appeals
were to be drafted next week into the COM
pany at Booths. He could not have i'm
agined that the President of the United
States, Congress and the Judges of the
Supreme Court were to be chained like cap
tive kings, 10 the chariot wheels of Caesar
But all this has been done, and no doubt
all these eminent men will accept Mr.. Took
er's invitations. We question if even the
President himself will be brave enough to
say with Brutus >
No Cassus, no; think not, thou noble Roman,
That ever Brutus will 60 bound TO Rome
Tooker engages" Lord Mayor or aPresi-
dent as Jarrett & Palmer engage great
actor and in these days the auditorium of
theatre is quite as dramatic as the stage, and
plays are cast on both sides of the curtain.
We would be willing to wager that when
Dom Pedro lands in New York the first per-
son he will meet on the pier will be mes
a@neer with two free passes for Booths. for
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

CANADA, it seems, was little hasty in sew.
ering judicial connection with the homS
government. The Dominion bill, debarrins
an appeal to the English Privy Council,
must, says the English Colonial Secretary,
be repealed. Canada must not try to soaI
alone before her wings are full-featherei.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27
A slippery Fish.

Between Secretary Fish and the House the
hidden strings of our diplomacy are kept
pretty closely concealed. This is as much
due to the bungling of the House as to the
Secretary's want of frankness. The demo-
cratic leaders are too raw in such matters o
know how to ask for what they want, and, as
Secretary Fish barely gives them what they
ask for, the country remains quite in the
dark on the points in which it feels most in
terest. Mr.. Morrison framed the first requi-
sition on the Secretary, and when he COM
piled with it it was found that what he com
municated lifted only one corner of the cur
tain. A second bungler then offered another
resolution, which was 80 unskilfully drawn
that when the House lifted its net out of
the water there was nothing in it,
the willy Fish having glided through its too
wide interstices. They asked for the cor
respondence about Cuba with other govern
ments than Spain; Mr. Fish replied that
there was none What they should have
asked for were the dispatches of our Ministers
to the State Department giving an account
of their interviews with the respective
European Ministers of Foreign Affairs to
whom they read the Cushing note or
verbally stated its contents. OF course it
was not received in dumb silence of course
our Ministers sent home an exact and detailed
report of all that was said in the interviews;
and this is the information which the
bunglers ought to have asked for, and which
the evasive Secretary is able to withhold in
such manner as to make their clumsy request
seem ridiculous.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

The DnEcr CABLE COMPANY, through its
chairman, made, in the columns of the
London Times yesterday, an assertion re-
garding the repeated breakings of its
cable which deserves the most marked
attention. 1t is, in effect, that its cable has
been regularly broken for stockiobbing pur-
poses by parties operating in England. It
will be remembered that at the time
Of the break before the present one,
some very strong statements were COM
municated to the HERGLD declaring that
these breakagcs were the result OF dark de-
signs. The crime of Thomassen is sufficient
to show that the conception Of such scheme
as rupturing q cable for private gain is pos
sible; but the difficulty Of executing it, owing
to the necessity OF number Of conspirators,
would be very great
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

RELIGIOUS ToLERArIoN under a monarchy
in Spain, if only existing in the shape of a
constitutional clause, would be a novelty.
BY the time the fanatics accustomed them
selves to seeing it there they might be in
duced to permit it to be tried in reality. A
curious feature of these religious hates is
that Christians of one sect prefer shifting
Christians of another sect to warning upon
infdelity, which is the foe of BOTH and
which alone is making proselytes on large
scale in Eurone
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

us of the report that during Mr.. OConor's
illness persons repeatedly invaded his house
with the assertion that they were divinely
commissioned by spiritual revelations to
effect his cure We have great faith in the
inherited soundness of the patients consti-
tuition, if only he can be let alone to accom-
plish his own salvation. The first necessary
step in that course is to give the city of New
York special and separate municipal cleo
ton. day in the spring of the year is
manifestly the proper time before any of the
citizens depart to their summer residences.
This step can be taken without plicating
it with other amendments of the charter.
Let those stand or fall on their own merits.
We do not deny that many amendments are
needed-on the contrary-nor have we
faith that spring election will instantly and
magically cure all the patients ills ; but we
do assert that it is an essential feature of
any and every meritorious scheme for mu-
nicipal reform, and that, since the members
of the Senate and the Assembly have almost
unanimously committed themselves to it, as
the interviews which we have published
prove, and since the Governor has often
recommended it, there ought to be no delay
in its adoption.
When we entered on this discussion we
expected no aid from the ofice-holding and
office-seeking brigade on either side. We
had become convinced that it was for the in
terest of the city and of the State at large
that our municipal affairs be taken out of the
scramble and turmoil of party politics We
thought the present juncture favorable in
one respect to the success of this reform.
The Governor belongs to ono political party,
the Legislature to the other, and inasmuch
as this mutual check prevents either party
from gaining any unfair advantage we hoped
they would mutually consent to sound non
partisan reforms, since both admit that radi-
cal reform is necessary. Ordinarily the leg
islative and executive departments are in the
same hands, and the party in control tinkers
the charter OF makes O new one in its own
interest. When the other party comes in it
does the same, and the consequence is
that the sick horse has no other respite
than a change of its booted and reckless
riders. Governor Tilden is professed ad-
vocate of reform, but he was unwilling to
have any charter changes last winter, while
there was a republican Senate, because he
hoped both branches of the present Legisla-
ture would be democratic, when his party
could fix things in the city to suit them
selves. The republicans also pretended to
favor reform, but as the democratic Governor
can this winter veto any bill they might pass
in the interest of their party they prefer
that the question shall go over to another
year, when they hope to have Governor, as
we'll as q Legislature, of their own stripe.
SO the patient languishes and suffers, the
victim of its successive partisan doctors, who
prolong the malady for the sake of their fees.
But it is the interest of the patient to get
well, and the HERALD urges it to emancipate
itself from its medical tyrants.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

SENATOR MoRRIssEY's speech in the State
Senate yesterday will not hurt him in pub
lie estimation anywhere He gave secta-
rian faggot- binders zone from the shoulder"
and his eulogy of the public schools has q
pathos of its own about it which will come
home to thousands
The New York herald., 1876-01-27
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
EAGLE THEATRE.
! u M

EAGLE THEATRE
VARIETY at SPIN
BOwERY THEATRE
CNCLE TOMS CABIN, asP NJ Mrs @. c. Howard
PARTISAN VARIETIES
VARIETY, M
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRBLs atsPM
WOODS MUSEUM.
DONALD MCKAY, az z NJ oliver Doud Byron. Mat
inee at 7. NJ
GLOBE THEATRE.
VARIETY, atsP.M
BOOTHS THRATRB
JULIUS CESAR at 5 2. NJ Mr. Lawrence Barrett. Natl
nee at 80 L. NJ.
THEATRE CONTOUR
VARIETY, at SPIN.
GERMANIA THEATRE
NEMESIS, atsP.M
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE.
VARIETY, at 5 +. NJ.
wALLACK's THEATRE
MARRIED IN HASTE, ats P NJ Mr. Lester Walaek.
TIvoLI THEATRE.
VARIETY at 8 pm.
COLOSSEUM
PANORAMA, l to 4 P NJ and 80 to loP NJ
BROOKLYN THEATRE
ROMANCE OF POOR YOUNG MAN, at T. NJ. Mr.
Montague.
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY, at5PM
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
ROSE MICHEL, at & p NJ
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
VARIETY. ats NJ
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
PIQuE. at 8 P. Nj. Fanny Davenport.
THIRrY.FouRTH STREET OPERA HOUSE
VARIETY, at s Y. NJ.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

The SULTAN INSISTING on getting his full
interest on his share of the public debt
when all Europeis put off with half coupons.
is very amusing picture of an absolute
ruler in his financial moments 1t will do
more to disgust England with him than if he
took another thousand wives.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

"THE PREFERENCE OF NEW YORK. Under
the above heading the Albany Evening Jour
nal nominates Roscoe Conkling for the Pres
idency Reuben E. Fenton should now get
somebody to nominate him, since he has
made his peace with the party.
The New York herald., 1876-01-27

THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CRIME in
their report will make great many sweep
ing propositions, all of which will deserve
earnest discussion. Many changes are
needed in our criminal machinery, and it
remains to be seen whether the ones to be
offered are among them