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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09

rotary, B. c. Torscy; Treasurer. Geo. W. Gid
den; Chaplain, Harlow March; Marshal, E. o.
Kelley; Music Committee, ii. E. Morton, VIM.
Dana, c, rus Fairbanks, Esq Committee to vi it
the sick, b. S. Kelley, Enos Bragdon, F II. Smith.
An amended constitution wasp esented aud aoopt-
ed. The Club is in a houiishing condition.
Messrs. Getchell and Smith of Sidney, were ar
raigned before Trial Justice Woodwa d, aud con-
victed Of keeping cider nuisances at the Readfeld
fair. Seve al other parties from Resdfeld have
been brought before Justice Wood ward ON liquor
processes during the past week. Officer Carr has
not only drove liquor out of Winthrop. but has
determined to clear adj lining towns Of the pesti-
lehce.
Winthrop made splendid exhibit at the Read
field Fair. Milton Weston took fist moucy for
best trotting AIN ing four years old colts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09

Do everlasting flowers, Mrs Chas Stanley, Wiz
thlop, LIST; Ms E Pearson, vassslboro. "a.
Do rustic stand, not less than three feet in
height. TO be filled with choice plants, Jas Wick
cry, Portland, lst.
CLAss6-vE0ETABLEs.
For the best exhibition and greatest variety Of
vegetables. Peter Ue Rocher. Waierville. l,t
Do potatoes, not less than varieties one peck
Of each variety, W ii Pearson. Vassalboro, lst.
For best seed corn, not less than 20 ears in trace
w Ii Pearson, Vassalboro, Isl; Frank NOVEL;,
Fairfield "a.
Do sw,et corn, 70 ears. joseph Percval, Water.
willie 1t; Wilton Dyer, Cape Elzabel b, ID.
DO 10 b ood beets, Frank L Move II FAN field LIST.
DO cob ages. 8 heads, Peter DE r Cher Water
Vi lie, 1t; W Ii Pearson, Vassalnoro, p.
Do carrots. 10 specimens. Peter DE Rocher,
Do prrsLip,, 10 specimen, Peer De Rocher,
Waite vile, II.
D. rura b.agas, 10 specimens, W IL Pearson,
Nsssalboro, l,.
DO cole y, roots, Peter De Rocher watcrvillc,
LIST.
Do 'omaoes, 2j specimens, Chas Pope, Man
ch, -ter l,t.
Do Hubbard, 25 specimens, F Novel;, Fir
field, 1T.
D. ,urhan, do W II Pear>on, Va.salboro, LIST.
Do Marblehead quasi, w Ii Pearson, Vssssl-
bOTo 1t.
Do best pumpkins. Joseph Percival, waterille,
lst.
DO largest pumpkin, w II Pearson, Vass.lLoro',
Isl.
DO water melons, specimens, Gslen Hoxie,
Fairfield, 1T.
DO citron melons, specmt ns Austin Bowman
lst
Gratuity to F rank E NOVEL;, Fairfield, for trace
pop corn.
Special premiums-Nick's best display cut flow
err, II MIR, Ch.s Stanley, Winthrop; ~ to Mrs
& sawyer, Wiscssset; 81 tn MIS- f A Fuller, L
winthrop; 4th to Ms Russell atom, Augusta.
Best floral work-lst TO Mrs Chas Stanley, Win
throp (tloal dcsign)
These are for am teurs Only.
a gratuitv to Mrs Martha TAYLOR, Wiscasset,
for wall bouquets; TO Miss Edi h Sawyer, Wi-css-
set, for collection seeds; to Mrs A d Strattard,
Monroe, everlasting flowers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09

The Belfast Age says: As an indication that
business is improving streets are becoming
more lively. The farmers are bringing in large
quantity Of potatoes which art the handsomest
we have ever seen, and they are quick at GO cents
for early rose and IS for Jacksons. They are
now being sold mostly by the barrel in the Boston
and other markets, and our buyers are putting
them up in that manner. Teams are sent out n-
to the country, and quick demand for empty
4 ,nr barrels has sprung up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09
Cincinnati Produce Market.

Cincinnati, Oct. !, lS76
fOhh- &lI 5Oal7 % Clear sides, ~ an
LARD- BACON
steam, lu1s "a Shuu ders,s S-aS
hetle, ii>sa - Clear RIB idss, ~ 10
boih MEAT Clear slde-, l0s .iVh
oulders, 7.a11 WHISkEY-.
Clear rio sides, 9-a,- Ola
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09
Builders Take Notice.

- c. CHASE will be in Argnsts, ut the Cony
~ House, Monday Oct. 9th, will plans ami
pee nuatons fer bnildir g teo q, d han stories
/ y, opri.,ors, prior to June Is7J, Bn,ldsre de.
irng J ID please notice. Pm UEpER
sct7-tI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09

The Peoples Pump r Ss!. 50 .a feet 80 e
Circular. tune2ltW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09
Supreme Court, Franklin County.

The September term of the Supreme Judicial
Court for Franklin County. adjourned Saturday
morning, after q session of about two weeks
The following criminals were sentenced by Judge
Libbey; James Allen, liquor nuts ance. 6ued
$3.50, to be paid within ten days or six months in
the county Jail; John Msrque, common seller,
fine Of 500 or sixty days in the countyjail; VIM.
ii. Greenef, larceny of eight feeccs of wool.
fined $50; Samuel Simmons, malicious mischief,
fined $25; William A. Gardiner, larceny of two
heifers, four months in Jail; Geo. Merchant, for
gerry. two years in the State prison; William ii.
Glidden, breaking and larceny OF clolhiug, ore
year at labor in Auburn Jail; Marshal White, as
sault and battery. faed $40; Geo. W. Allen, lar
ceny Of 81 100, reform school during minority.
winthrop Locals.
I The election Of officers of Winthrop Temper
lnce Reform Club took place Thursday evening
the 5th inst The following officers we're elected !:
President, John LeuzadeI; Vice Presidents,
A. C. Otis. Thomas Desley, ]. l.. Weliman; Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09
EUROPE.
The POrte's Answer,

| London, October 7. A despatch from Constan-
tnope says the Pure 's answer to the proposals
of the powers was formally communicated to the
| Ambass ador Yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09

The meeting of the Reform Club at their room
yesterday afternoon was well attended. Speeches
were made by members Of the Club and others.
A good deal Of quiet but effective work is being
performed by this organization. The officers and
members are earnest and persevering men, who
are determined to drive the curse of intemp, rance
from our midst.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-02-24
Terms or S,,to1Crifot,on
FRANK lESlIE'S
Illustrated Publications.

Ps4STAGE PaID
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rank l4r-fies ltsFs' AMI Girl WEEKLY 3.
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rank isssiir's Bpys q. sHn~rsra -
fr<nA less ,. Pleasant IIurs "a
Frank i-sslis'. BuiS- oT fza ss
The Jolly Joker a.
F@sS Arsis'- Family gsurnat :,
frsHk l-e.si-is Nm asrk souruaf ! q
raisk t.rs- - iifss-rzfrsi Ain
FaitN A-esi-'s taeuac AlEaxsac IA
Evsr1 srsyly sas-crlhrg ]. eufirIrt "a . t.-.ufiol
si-at1 esifisss5 IN "a IN Eshlscsfos 1hr -
- = st-oc.' 1ai. 'alsiel expressly Tor eur re
S2a s-e S1fn1ss ETlnfei Oh ~Nzrrv rrEr.sr.s
- 800! act2ii te ortgtaa sstEsserg-sscr= " Art
sts1a % eArstsss. laza'iicz;ssa sat gsss. sirs
portage.
AGENTS WANTED
s@Esess AGENCY DEPAETNEXT- Fr&zk E-.as.s
+. ~i---tif = "a -. - ffZFf STREET Nsr 49,.
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Mr. r. II. Dihle is arranging TO build TIVE
story brick building on the lot recently owned
by j. +. Harrison. on Santa Fe, which MIR
Dihle has just purchased. We hear. also. tia
Messrs. Barneck & Davis will put up build
ing OF the same dimensions, and build IL
conjunction with Mr. Dihle.
Everything cheap at j. e. Rash & Sons.
Now is the time TO make some money. ",
will sell you goods of all kinds lower than
any house in the west.
OBER, BOND & WILSON.
Always remember that Litowich & Witt
mann al the "brokcn down" Stone Palace.
are selling goods cheaper Than any other store
in town. Ii is to your own interest to 90
there 10 buy your Clothing, Dry Goods aud
Notions. and y"u will surely b. happy.
! The Ladies Catholic Fair commenced Tues
day evening. For some information concern
ing it we refer onr readers to few items taken
from the Daily Bqzar-pubshed in another
column. The Fair has hardly got started yet.
but there is "A fine promise Of its being very
entertaining also remuncraiiye.
We invite all people to come to the ''brokrn
down" Stone Palace store. and be Convinced
"i the low prices. We are bouid TO sell our
remaining stock Of goods in a short time IN
order to make room for a very large and ex-
tcn,ive stock of Spring goods soon to arrive
direct from New York.
LIrowICu & WIrTMANS.
SINGING CLAes.-fIaying been solicited by
friends. Mr.. Locke has consented to organize
Singing School in Salna. provided suffi-
cieut interest is manifested and encouragement
given TO render il success. Dir. Locke VIII
meet all those drsirious OF joining class,
at the Baptist church, OH Friday evening. the
18th inst, at O'Clock.
The first rain storm we have had for several
months happened last Sunday night. We un-
d,rs,and that in some parts OF the county 1t
was quite heavy. IL has done great deal of
good-rhe wheat was suffering somewhat
The green grass begins to appear. Everything"
has been enlivcned by the wettiDg, hot ex-
crpting humans
Mcssrs Litowch 81 Whitman have lately
purchased very handsome traders wagon.
with which they propose TO traverse the val
legs OF this country and sell dry goods, no
lions, etc. We b.lcvc this will be the fret
wagon of the kind ever sent oat form Saiina
Litowich & Whitman are full Of snap aud
propose TO work up The trade on the edges
Success 10 them.
The following persons are to serve as jurors
at the coming term OF coart Elijah Husband.
Dcnuis Morgan. ID. L. Herbert swan Brodinr,
4. Norton, j. Il. P'achcr Geo. Watson, Hem
~ Miller, j L ireland. BO5crt Muir James To-
bin, W. 4. Maxwell, L. >. Bean. VIM T..
Pierce. Il. =. See. Newton Mitchell }. |. Nor
ton. ID. Whitehead. sam. Brown. H. H. Suder.
dorf, Cias. Freddy. G. 4 Meade, A j. Han
ia, James Mason. Robcr Wheeler, {. l.. Hn>-
ley, ,. j. Barrett, Thorn ~ Alley, Frank Good
now, V. i. Martin. +. 4. Mi,s. John Madden,
l.. llohneck, Il. l.. Mitchell, John Martin, l..
j. Anderson.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-02-24
Tie Saline County Journal
Ecw To-day.

Grand Real Estate Observation-Disclosures,
Sherin's salc-u. ID. Baker.
Ordinance Ne. l75-CitE.
Ordinance No. l76-Cuy.
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FARM FOR SALE.
a TIMBER FARM FOR SALE.
hnosca as Md,1fe Bend Farm.

This farm - SIX miics sunsh % >aIinA containing
10 acrrs more ~ iess- 20 acrrs IA eaig.Vsfi..- II
acres irn~gS snl tl1caes The river m Efax a zssa~
laSUrr Ghcre u a. abUHisscs Of wool for f,miiv
Tor lre. teavvnirtt u schs aad shgrrh $50
81 pUt uOf I've Years ssnre 4 t-,ztse ltxs.
feet Il ssCres htg8, smoke AMI ne h4us f..t h-,I,
ngs OF Piae lUsabil anS stalking 4 I've barss
iRis Erai q efrrsi ir fsr th- next t, f,,s -,
s.. Voe ~. cash and ~ .s5a ca thrrr 49,. m -
]. pr cs.as isterrsf. A3sirrSs
Mrs T. y wECKERSHsN
1cIhrrsca. kan..s
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Harper's Magazine.
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The character which this M,azi1e possesses FIR va
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That has kept pace with 10 ii hi. .ot led the tir.-s
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tPu5lisneI February 2ita, lss6
Ordinance No. I;6.

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tor ,.Synrent vi ,ic
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Published February 2ith, 1876 !
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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SIC. :. IhAI Oi'IrTs De urdMn Upon LlIy lrcasury
FOR payment thr -amr.
sEc. ;. Tbs os.lmsnce sh1ll take effect and b. la
force ir"Ic a,ia aI.er - passage.
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Dissolution Notice.

THE a. m OF Powers Gooinow this ,las dissolsed
10y limitation. Mr. OOSdsoN viii aue til,
bs>iaesS. All business oI hate firm be seIi,cd
10y trA.k GoUd.Ow ID IS. 40 ttsS,
GOOpNON
All persons owing the nm OF Powers & Cov.lGow,
wiil lxAsx settle IulI1sdaIeiy.
h. GooDNow,
SalmA, February 10, lss6. 30
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"A Complete Pictorial History Of the
Times. -" The best cheapest, and
most successful Family Paper in the
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CHEAP LANDS

q I o. day NJ home Agents wanted autai snd
% Elcrns free. True & 60. , Augusta, Maine
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AGENTS WANTED

s-s1sess, s"ENsf bEPAEIAEST- FE&zk E-.as.s
F~s-'tsf u 60 - fezFf >5Fr.t- NJ ~.
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Worse for Grant.


- "a molAss, every struggle
"y the Attornoy-Generul 10 eXtri-
cate himself from the dilemma of NEIL
acing witnesses to save BABCocK aud other
conspiutors, has only caused him TO plunge
in deeper. He is a friend Of GRANT and a
third-termor; yet he has presented the
President to the country in light which
his worst enemy could not have made
worse. In the recent explanation to Mr.,
SCoTr LorD, Mr. PIERWEroNr sets up Il
most extraordinary defence of his conduct
in these words;
About the middle Of January. and suisse
Quent thereto, various newspaper slips, private
letters, and personal statements, came to the
President, apd IN ales ger degree to the A. torney-
General, saying that bargains were being made
or were about To ne made with crlulin Ia whose
Testimony was not In the slightest dtTce
needed, by which n largo number OF crluliaa,s
were To he let of from amy kind Of punishrcnt,
to tie relieved Of prosecution In u manner likely
to bring scandal upon the admnisl ratiNn OF
justice, and quite AT variance with the policy
expressed by the Secretary OF the Treasury, and
approved by the Acknowledgment.
"Ihe President was greatly disturbed 10y these
varied aud repeated REPRESENTATIONS OF u course
| SO at variance with the policy before indicated,
and hc brought u 10 the attention OF the Attor-
nev General, and GHdllB suggested at, IN rleU Of
The repeated statements, II iOOuld he peii J0T M
Attorney General Ia let The District AuOrHiys re-
cetr( some caution uIJpH WlSSWyctt ana therefore
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catastrophe. Before three o'clock n
brokers receipts have enabled him to make
good his ovcrdrafts, or he has found 1t easy
to borrow money with which to bridge the
deficit. But suppose he happens TO be
loaded with clique stocks at the mo-
mcnt Of violent break. Ills own Gus
TONERS cease to uphold Their margins.
Some Of his fellow brokers fail. The
stocks, which lie has sold aud whose pro-
cceds were relied on TO meet his certified
checks, are returned TO him hy msulvCnt
buyers. At the last moment he appeals to
capitalists, bat they OF course have become
panic-struck and refuse to lend on dis
credited shares.
In this emergency the sole course open
to the broker is, in street parlauce, to lie
down upon his bank, or turn over to it his
deprecated securities. This doubtless is
an act of honesty, but in effect it may be
ms hurtful as rogucry. There are certain
shocks from which speculative shares
never recover, and banks on which brokers
have lain down with large blocks OF the
Prairie du Chen" or Harlem cate
CORY in the hour OF their tinul catnclysm
might be constrained TO realize AT loss
which would utterly swamp their capital.
To what extent for instance, the Cont
mental Bank was damaged by the failure
OF HAIGHr was necessarily divulged, but
how much other institutions specially
patronized Ivy the Stock Exchange have
suffered from similar disasters is best
known to the directors. At all events the
community cannot forget that the diff
Guilty Of NEGOTIATING securities thrown
back on them to meet checks rishly ccrti-
fed, impelled the Broad street banks
in 1s,3 to u proceeding which was really
tantamount to an embargo Of dcpositors'
funds, and which could Ice justified in the
same measure, aud not otherwise that
embczzlemcnt is palliat"d 10y starvation
When all the banks Of this city conform
aud stop certifying checks without depos-
its upon the judgncn, Of the paying teller,
bank stock in general viii cease 10 be dis
credited. II is not likely. however, that
certain officials to forego business which
| they have learned 10 consider profitable.
The ouly practicable measure by which our
| banks might hc relieved Of their present
burdens and recover the confidence of in
| vestors, would be the establishment Of n
| clearing house for stocks. Uuluckily there
are potent Interests In the stock Exchange
which would be thwaIt,d by tins judioiOus
/ iuuryu.i,n