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The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
The Kennebec Ice Business.

The Augusta Journal thus sums up the
Kennebec ice business
There are 600, 800 tons of ice housed on
the Kennebec; Az 900 tons have been
sold, and 243, 100 tons are awaiting sale.
Putting the average price at s. per ton
which is a reasonable figure, the aggre-
gate value OF the ice is 81 1891 900. After
the lapse of five years, without etfectng
any sale, when the ice purchasers came
along the first of the season, with a sharp
eye to making a good bargain. they found
companies ready to make contracts at ST.
%, 40 and $3.50 per ton, the companies
thinking they were getting ''a big thing
on ice" But as the winter has worn away,
and the ice has melted and moved past
the ice houses on the Hudson and other riv-
ers, Kennebec ice has steadily gone up in
the market-until it is sought far at s. IS
a ton and refused.
An immense amount of money has been
paid out for help during the past winter,
and for lumber used in the building of
new houses. Thirty-three concerns have
had at different times crews ranging from
fifty to one hundred men, at good wages,
putting money into the pockets of those
who needed it, more especially this year
when business has been depressed. Work
has been prosecuted a portion of the time
day and night We found crews of men
at work Friday, but the ice is reported to
be porous and growing poor rapidly,
though maintaining thickness of some
twenty inches; and what remains to be
done in the way Of securing and housing,
must be done speedily.
The sawdust used in storing and ship
ping is quite an item, exhausting the pro-
duct of the mills at Gardiner, and causing
| a demand for the article elsewhere This
refuse of the mill, which was once cast
| aside as worthless, is now sold for $500 a
cord 1t takes from eight to ten cords to
properly pack a cargo of ice. In 1868
sawdust brought 800 cord, and in 1870,
| $500.
Schooners and tug boats will be in great
demand the coming season, for moving
the ice. One thousand tons of ice will fill
three ordinary schooners, and to ship the
| 600, 800 tons of ice now on the Kennebec,
| which has been sold or waiting sale, it
will require that fifteen vessels be loaded
each day during the ice season. There
will be constant fleet of vessels passing
up and down the Kennebec all summer,
and every house will be emptied ready tor
the business Office harvesting next winter.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
a Question Answered.

When Eugene Hale was up in New
Hampshire making speeches, a few weeks
ago, he presented to his audiences this re-
markaole figure
/ would only say to the soldier boy-take
down the musket Of 81, examine it closely, let
it revive the old feeling of pride let the heart
beat quick and in sympathy, then hold the lock
Of the Old gun to your ear and ask, How do
you vote, old gum
That remarkable question which Hale
wanted to have whispered through the
touch-hoe Of the old gun, seems to have
called out a response from the muzzle in
his own town, and one which any "son
Of gun" can understand.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

In reply to a suggestion of the Bangor
Commercial, that Monroe Young may be
the Democratic nominee for congress, the
Wing says
He is an eminent sample of the high-toned,
reform Democracy of the times, and we should
of all things like to see him brought in contrast
with Hon. Eugene Hale in the fifth district.
The Wing shouldn't set Hale on too
high pedestal, because when that highly
credible Black Republican witness the ed
itor of the Prog Age shall be called into
court, the aspect of the case may change.
He turned himself inside out in 1872, and
printed some fearful revelations concern
ing Eugene.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

While Eugene Hale was digging open
graves in Congress, and Juggling the bones
through New pshire-there has been
trouble brewing for him in his own town
here in Maine. Like Seth Millihen's hen,
setting on six dozen of eggs, Hale spreads
himself too much.
Speaking of our rooster the Prog Age
says
1t boosted how fat and sleek it was keeping
the fowl, to have him in good case to crow over
the victories as they came along. But the last
no use for him, and this Spring the prospects
of the party are so dismal that the fowl has
been placed over Il coffin advertisement in its
columns.
You are all wrong, as usual. We loaned
our old bird to the boys down at Ellsworth,
and they had him perched on the ballot box
on Monday night. He has come home, as
YOU see Mathews has got one of the chick
ems, but the regular old fighting cock is kept
exclusively for Democratic victories. You
are Judge of Probate, but not Judge of
Poultry, by good deal
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

At the annual meeting of the stockholders O
the Maine Central Railroad, at Augusta, on the
22d, the following board of Directors for thu
ensuing year were elected - Abner Coburn
Skowhegan; Darius Alden, Augusta; John B
Brown and W. G. Davis, Portland; Arthur
sewall, Bath; Noah Woods, Bangor; Franz
Jones, Portsmouth, n. H.; John L. Ward, Bos
ton; Samuel c. Lawrence, Medford, Mass.
James w. johnson, Enfield, n. H.. James ?
Cook, Salem, Mass.
This road, in common with all others, share
in the general depression, but the report evi
dences careful and economical management
and shows net earnings sufficient to meet al
OBLIGATIONS
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
The Centennial.

THE PROGRAMME OF THE OPENING EX.
ERCIsEs ON MAY 10th.
Philadelphia, March %. The general
plan for the exercises at the opening Of
the Centennial Exhibition on May 10, has
been agreed upon by the executive Com,
mit,ee. The specially invited guests will
be nearly as follows:
The President and Vice President
The Cabinet
The Supreme Court.
The Senate and House of Representa-.
tives.
The leading officers of the Army and
Navy.
The Governors of the States and Terri
tories and their staf's
The Legislature of Pennsylvania.
The Board of State Supervisors.
The Foreign Commissioners.
The Centennial Commission and the
chief subordinates.
The Centennial Board of Finance.
The Government Board of Finance
The Women's Centennial Executive
Committee.
The Judges of the Exhibition.
The State Centennial Boards.
Inc CITY Officials Oh IulldUelpnld.
This list is subject to revision. As the
exercises are to be held in the open air, it
will be possible for greater multitude to
witness them. About 1890 o'clock A. M
the persons invited having been conducted
to their places, the ochestra Of $50, con-
Quoted by Theodore Thomas, will play
the national airs of all nations. The Pres
ident of the United States will be conduct
ed to the ground by Governor Hartranft,
with military escort. The following pro-
gramme will then be carried out:
The Grand March," written ior the oc-
casion by Richard Wagner
Invocation of the Divine Blessing"
original hymn by j. e. Whittier.
Original Cantata-W ords by Sydney
Lanier of Georgia; music by Dudley Buck
OF Connecticut
Brief presentation by the President of
the Centennial Commission, reporting the
Exhibition to the President of the United
States.
An address by the President Of the Uni
ted States, which he will close by declar-
ing the Exhibition open. Immediately
the flags will be unturled, the artillery
will fire salute, the chimes of the tower
anu other great pelis on the ground Will
ring, and the chorus OF 600 voices will
render Handel's "Halleluah." The for
eign commissioners will move to their re-
spective assignments in the main building
The President Of the United States, escort
ed by the Commission and Board of FL
nance, and the invited guests, will enter
the north doors o.! the main building and
move, accompanied by the music OF the
great organs, along the main avenue in
such a manner as to pass by each national
commission. The procession will then
cross to Machinery Hall, and walk down
the main avenue to the centre. Then at
signal from the President Of the United
States the enormous engine and its thir
teen acres of machinery will be put in mo-
ton and the Exhibition will open TO the
world. There may follow more or less
formal receptions in the Judges Hall and
the quarters Of the Commission.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
Maine at the Centennial.

PORTLAND, Me-, March 81 Messrs
Nye and Haskell of the Maine Centennial
Commission will leave for Philadelphia in
April and from that date the headquarters
of the Maine Centennial Board will be es-
tablished there. Permanent quarters have
not yet been decided upon; but probably
for while the most OF the Maine folks
will find home at the United States. one
of the large new hotels opposite the main
entrance to the exhibition ground After
or about the time of the opening, the
Maine headquarters will probably be upon
the grounds, though the State will have
no building of its own. Several features
of our show will be very fine, particular
ly the textile fabrics
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

IlO = XII VI h'NAHN'''J 'NN1 WI 0NfCASt
and the accounts of disasters to Maine
vessels is large,
A CAPTAIN AND HIS WIFE DROWNED.
PORTLAND, Me-, March -. Schooner Har-
riet Novel;, Captain Kent, from Elizabethport
for Bath with coal, went ashore on Bluff Island,
Scarboro, at = O'Clock Sunday morning, and went
to pieces. Capt. Kent and wife We're drowned,
rest of crew We're saved. They report a brig
in company with them when they went ashore,
and they afterwards picked up wrecked stuff,
and suppose the brig wrecked. Name unknown.
Schooner f. L. Simpson, New York for Port
land, was totally wrecked OFT Cape POrpoise,
Saturday night. Crew saved.
The Harriet NOVEL; was l2S tons, owned in
Boston, coal laden, and was anchored at Rich
mond Island. She broke her chains and drifted
on to Bluff Island. The men landed at day-
break, and wished to rig basket and haul
Mrs. Kent ashore, but as the vessel lay easily
on the rocks the Captain preferred to stick 10
her. When the tide rose the vessel pounded
to pieces. Capt. Kent tried to save his wife on
a spar, but she was washed away. He was last
seen drifting seward. Some fragments of the
wreck came ashore at Blue Island. but everv
vestge disappeared from Bluff Island
ST. GEORGE SCHOONER IN DISTRESS.
WASHINGTON, March o. The signal service
observer at Norfolk, reports that schooner
Whitney Long of st. George, Me, Capt. +. W.
Beckmore, was picked up in distress Yesterday
at Granny Island. She lost her maln-salI, mani
boom, fore-riggng and chain-pates, and start
ed head-gear, vessel is tight. The cargo is all
right, she towed here this afternoon for repairs.
THE CAPTAIN AND A SEAMAN OF A MACHIAS
SCHOONER LOST
New YORK, March -. The schooner j. c.
Blake, from Turks Island reports March 2lst,
lat, SO deg. 40 Ion. 10 deg 32' spoke schooner
Lucineo of Machas, for Portland who report
ed that on March 20 during gale in the night,
the captain and one man were washed over
board and lost, at the same time the decks
were swept of everything movable. They
wanted navigator; SO ayed by them all night,
but could not be boarded on account of the
heavy sea. In the morning they were not in
sight and we proceeded.
THE CREW OF THE ID. TALBOT OF CAMDEN
SAFE.
The Dirigo, of Harrington from Marseiles,
reports March oath, lat 35 deg, lon. "A deg 80
spoke the bark j. F. Smith from Cenfuegos
for Boston, having on board the crew of the
schooner ID. Talbot of Camden, Me-, which was
dismasted and in sinking condition on the 90.
All were saved, including the captains wife
and child. 1t was blowing so hard at the time
that it was impossible to save anything but the
clothing they had on. The j. +. Smith was
short Of flour, which we supplied.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The Journal says that George NJ Robinson of
Augusta had two barns blown oyer and de-
stroyed during the gale of Tuesday. The widow
of the late DR.. Robert A. Cony had barn
blown down. Mrs. Hatch, in the same neigh
borhood lost the root of her barn.
Awoman of rather large proportions stepped
into a meat market in Westtield Mass, and dis
played her superior feminine strength by taking
q young man of $50 pounds weight across her
knee and spanking him, because he wouldn't
hurry up and get what she wanted.
James B. Gordon, a well-known merchant OF
Halifax, n. S., convalescent small poX pa
tient, was forcibly taken from house in West
18th street to the smallpox hospital on Black
Wells Island, where he was put alongside OF
malignant case of smallpox. The result was
death.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
Hark, From the Tombs.

1t is curious to observe how a persons
occupation will tinge all his thoughts and
actions. The sailor, in his moments of ex-
element, always mathematics his tarry
toplights. The soldier is g sudden and
quick in quarrel" 1t was said of the
statesman-farmer, Daniel Webster, that
'he had patriarch's love Of sheep, and
his talk was Of oxen.n Among the other
great men in whom this popularity is no.
ticeable, is the editor OF the Prog. Age,
whose position as Judge of Probate is
intimately connected with dead men and
their estates. The effect of this contem-
plation has been to color all the thoughts
OF the editor Judge with melancholy,
with
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

Developments are showing that New
Hampshire was carried by the most lavish
use of money, and shocking corruption.
In the town of Canaan, there has been
found and published the following letter,
dated at the Republican head quarters at
Concord, and signed by the chairman of
the state committee
c. q. Barney Esq, East Canaan:
Dear Sir-I0u must carry Canaan at all haz-
ards. If the $500 | have already sent is not
enough to carry the town, [ rely upon YOU to
carry it all events and if it costs $1,000 you
shall be made whole. Don't fail.
Yours truly, DANIEL HALL.
1t is difficult to say where the enormous
fund came from, which sui1iced to pay
$4,000 to carry one small town; but as
sworn evidence is proving at Washington
that the post trader frauds Of Belknap reg
ularly contributed to the Republican cleo
tioneering fund, it is probable that there
is still some undiscovered leak of the kind.
But what a picture for the decent and re-
putable people OF the country to look upon.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

Subscribers are requested to take notice of the
date on the colored slips attached to the paper. 1t
is the only form of receipt used For instance,
Is May IT, means that the subscription is paid to that
date. When a new payment Is made, the date will
be changed to correspond and SUBSCRIBERS ARE
REQUESTED TO SEE THAT THEIR DATES ARE
CORRECT Subscribers in arrears are requested to
forward the sums due
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
What is the Matter with Trade :?

The New York Bulletin answers the
question by giving, without any comment,
series of tables in which the taxation OF
the country in 1875 is compared with the
taxation in 1860. The federal taxes in
1860 were $50, 010, 1853; in 1875 they were
$279,0S9, 1898; increase, S219,O79, 1876, or
365 per cent, while the increase of popu-
lation was 43 per cent. The state taxes
(including leves for state purposes onlv)
were $27 1868, 10 in 1860; in 1873 thew
were SIC, 464 $50; increase S43. 1879. 27O
| or 1853 per cent, while the increase of off
cial valuation was 4G - per cent The
municipal taxes, in fourteen principal
cities, were $19,7SS, 1872, in 1860; in 1875
they were 1911 ,657 ,341 increase, ST. 500
159, or 1868 per cent, while the increase OF
population was 20 II per cent. and the
increase Of official valuation 157 per cent
Summing all up-federal, state, county
and city taxes-the Bulletin finds that the
taxation of the country in 1875 was 315
per cent. greater than in 1860, while the
population had increased but 43 per cent,
showing that the average burden upon
each individual is almost eight times as
heavy as it was fifteen years ago.
What wonder that the energies of the
country are weighed down; that industry
and trade are depressed; that capital has
lost its activity; that labor lacks employ
ment and is poorly compensated; that
poverty and pauperism are on the in
crease; that corruption spreads and that
generally, as a nation, we are in bad
way?
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The South is turning its attention to the man.
ufacture of ice. An Augusta (Ga.) factory
now turns out $4,000 pounds daily. Exchange.
We don't believe it will do. There is
no chemical product that holds on to trig-
idity and possesses the real logged resist
ance to the melting mood, like the pro-
ducts of Maine lakes. 1t can't be beat
for any use, from single punch to re-
frigerator full.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The Bronx powder mill in the northern
suburbs of New York, was blown up
Thursday by the explosion OF 400 pounds
of Jupiter powder. The mill was blown
into fragments, and the men in it so mu-
tilated that their bodies were masses of
shreds. Other buildings thousand feet
from the mill were damaged. Portions of
the mill were carried 600 feet. A boy
named Delhi was blown into the air fifty
feet and fell in the water seventy feet
from where he was at work, frightfully
mangled. Seven person were killed, and
several seriously wounded. The explo-
sion was caused by boys throwing a
lighted match into the powder.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

Capt. Boutelle's craft was taken aback
by sudden squall from the eastward on
Monday. There was bewildering amount
of believing through that brass-mounted
speaking trumpet, but the old scow lay
like log.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

1t is with great satisfaction that we re-
cord the splendid Democratic victory in
our sister city of Ellsworth In spite Of
the iron rule OF radicalism, in spite of the
dictates OF Blaineism, in spite OF the lavish
use of money, of the encouragement of
New Hampshire, Of threats and denuncia-
tions, Ellsworth, the home OF Hale, the
radical headquarters of the Fifth District
has gone Dem ocratic, electing Monroe
Young Mayor, by TWO HUNDRED AND
SIXTY THREE MAJORITY, and sup
ports his administration by representatives
from all of the five wards. Good enough.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The bill which last week passed the
House in congress, designed to prevent
the interference OF officials in elections,
and to suppress corruption generally, is
of great Importance. 1t is a direct result
of Democratic control of the popular
branch, for during all the years Of Repub-
lican supremacy in Congress no such
measure has been proposed, although the
evil all that time was as great as now
But, now that the bill has passed one
branch and gone to the Senate, the Re-
publicans will not dare dispute its passage
for fear of consequences. In Maine, for
instance, where the whole seaboard is
plastered over with sinecure officials, the
advantages of such law in the cause OF
the rights Of the people will be very great
unless some ingenious evasion of its pro-
vision shall be invented There will be a
great deal of studying to that end.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The retired mariner of the Bangor Wing
is becoming very flowery in editorial Ian
guage. Speaking of the debate on the
bill for regulating elections. he says
"Mr Blaine exposed the mockery and
pressed the bitter chalice to the lips OF the
demagogues who started the proposition"
A chalice is the cup in which the wine of
the sacrament is administered, and rather
a curious vessel tor Blaine to use in offer
ing Congressman their bitters The Cap
tain has picked up some strange ideas las
he sailed, as he sailed"
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

We suspected, when the Bangor Wing
began to abuse Monroe Young few days
ago, that there was something the matter
in Ellsworth On Monday the Democrats
elected MI Young mayor by 263 MAORI
ty, and carried every ward in the city
The mariner Of the Wing had seen the
squall coming.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The Emperor Of Brazil has embarked
for New York, to attend the Centennial
Don Pedro has always been an admirer of
this country, and its firm friend.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
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THURSDAY, MARCH 80, 1876.
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The Claremont On. H. Eagle says that cat
belonging to Nathan Wilson of Langdon got
up on his bed and walked him by scratching.
Thrown off, it Immediately returned and renew
ed its demonstrations, until Mr.. Wilson got up
and found the house on fire about the fireplace.
The warning was just in time to save the house
and family
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
BELKNAP-MARSH.

Within the last few days the tone of the Re-
publican papers here has changed regarding the
Belknap matter, and there is strong DISPOSE
ton manifested to stand by Belknap and defend
him, making Marsh the scapegoat. So long as
Marsh was safe in Canada, they protested to be
very angry with the Committee for letting him
go, thus losing the only witness who could con-
Wet the ex-Secretary and argued that the pros
ecution must therefore stop. In other words,
Belknap could neither be impeached nor con-
victed. But the Judiciary Committee of the
House demanded that the President should pro-
cure the return of Marsh by granting him i'm
munity from prosecution, and Grant was forced
to comply, or stand convicted before the coun-
try of desiring to shield Belknap from criminal
prosecution, as he has already attempted to
shield him from impeachment.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The Continental and Lincoln mills of Lewis
ton will not exhibit at the centennial. The
Androscoggin, Hill Barker, and Lewiston mills
will make very large displays. The Bates Mills
will make an immense exhibit of at least one
hundred STYLES of cotton and wooden goods
The Pepperell and Laconia mills of Biddeford
will each show twelve styles of goods from the
Lewiston Bleachery, where nearly all the goods
to be sent from that city are finished.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

RJ-GEO. Z. HOWELL Il CO., 40 Park Row. New
York, will receive advertisements for this paper at
the lowest rates. Their orders will receive prompt
attention.
aB-HoRACE DoDD, l2l Washington ST., Boston,
Is ali authorized Agent for the Journal
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

this is the man who only ten days ago was
seriously looked up to by the Republicans
in the House and in the country. not in
deed as an honest and high-minded states
man, but as clever and keen-sighted pol
itician! We are afraid that the political
epitaph of Blaine must be taken from the
pages of Sir John Lubbock Sir John
somewhere tells us of a remarkably high
stepping, loud-crowing aad impressive
chanticleer which belonged to friend of
his and was the hope of a thrifty farm
yard. The bird was white, had won
dertul comb and superb tail, and ruled
the whole yard with Casarian majesty.
But one day there came into the yard a
quiet, gray, rather downcast- looking
rooster" who kept to himself and mind
ed his own business. until it happened
that the magnificent chanticleer aforesaid
thought fit to dispute with him his own
selected corner of the common yard. How
the argument began the household never
knew. But of a sudden everybodys at
tention was drawn to the spot by most
unexampled clamor of clucking, clacking
and growing. and hurrying thither every
body beheld the white emperor lying
dragged, CORY and motionless on the edge
OF ditch, while the gray bird was calm
ly scratching for barley as before. From
that day forth, says Sir John, the white
emperor was of no more use; nor did so
much as an added egg ever again own
him as its sire.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

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