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The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
The County Convention.

The Democratic County Convention,
that assembled in this city on Saturday,
was neither excited nor demonstrative,
but it was made up of the steady and re-
liable men of the party, who believe in its
principles, in it's final triumph, and that
the country will be immensely benefited
thereby. These men have lived to see
the time when Waldo County, with its
former large Republican majority, has be-
come debatable ground, when the chances
are more than even that the Democratic
candidates for county officers will be
elected, supported as they are by a COM
pact, well organized and enthusiastic or
ganizatiOn. That is something to cheer
the hearts of the Democrats who remem-
Der the dark and disastrous days of the
past sixteen years.
The county ticket put in nomination is
upon the whole a very strong one. Mr..
Cove, the candidate for first senator, is
an intelligent gentleman who stands very
high in the regards of those who are best
acquainted with him. He made an ex-
cellent run for the same Office last year.
Mr.. Roberts, who for the first time comes
upon the ticket before the people OF the
whole county, has won reputation as 4
good organizer and persistent worker i'll
10 10 fHt,aca 0lit II
have enabled him to Wrest the control of
Stockton from eX-collector Barnabas, and
to make it a reliable Democratic town
meritorious labor which the party has
always thankfully recognized. Mr. Berry,
of Burnham, nominated for Register of
Deeds, has excellent qualifications for the
PLACES careful and reliable man, high
ly esteemed wherever known. He has the
misfortune to be incapacitated for active
labor, and therefore has an additional
claim upon the suffrages of his fellow cit
liens. The nominee for County Attorney,
Geo. E. Wallace, Esq, has won a good
reputation at the bar as a careful and
honorable practitioner, and has the re-
spect OF every person to whom he is
known. The nomination for County
Treasurer was given, without solicitation,
to Mr.. Russell G. Dyer, local editor of the
Journal gentleman as meritorious as
he is modest. An intimate association for
ten years enables us to endorse Mr.. Over
as a reliable man in every respect and
worthy of the support of his fellow citi-
Zens. Mr. Grant, candidate for County
Commissioner, is a well known and great
ly respected citizen Of Prospect, who has
excellent qualifications for the place. His
popularity enabled him to lead the Dem
ocratic ticket in the county at the cleo
ton last fall.
Our friends thus go before the people
with a ticket that ought not only to com
mand the full party support, but win
votes from the opposition, in the present
state of dissatisfaction prevailing in the
Republican party. With proper efforts the
whole ticket can be elected. The one
thing needtul for such a result is the work
of organization. Let this not be neg
lected.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
Thomas Kat, Esq.

have taken the precaution to clothe myself III
coat of mail, before attacking this subject. The
Tom cat being encascd in coat of male too wish
10 he on as near an equal footing with him as pos
~ible, but still he beats me by two feet. 1t is
hard to get the advantage of cat Anybody who
can get the advantage of cat does not need a
guardian; he can just go right out into the cold
world and earn a dollar day the year round.
The eat was invented a long time ago | have
forgotten the name of the inventor. 1t was patent
ed and for a long time the inventor held it as IA
monopoly but after time the patent run out and
the cat came into general use since which time
there have been some improvements added. so that
The eat of this age is a hard thing to beat,
Cats are of a couple of kinds One is the Tom
Cat and the other-well, the other isn't A cat is
all born at once with the exception of the eyes
which are always nine days later. When cat
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
The FIRST STRAINS OF A FIGHT.

the first strains of eat fight. got out of bed and
opened my mouth and dropped Scat" out of
the window, The yowng increased added "a
pair of ten-dollar boots TO the affair; boot Jack
followed the boots but the noise continued with
more zeal if possible than ever Nv contribution
Ws> not the only one from other windows a con
1nuons fire kept up: bottles, boots shoes
slippers and every available article that could be
reached SHED into the darkness at the noise
Occasionally more terrific yell would seem to in
,licate that the objective point had been reached
INT still the Yelling continued with unabating
irGor.
Al last | bethought me of dark lantern | had
ant lighting it. ! turned the light down into the
back ward in the direction of the noise What |
saw can tell about, but how | felt and looked
would need larger pen than mine to describe.
10 say that III, hair stood up would be very tame.
Il not only stood mp but ii fairly lifted me from
the floor. | saw hanging from the clothes line a
couple of Tom cats tied together by the tails, and
engaged with all their might in taking each other
apart. while in the yard was man with bag, into
wlnch he was putting my boots, boOt.jack, and
other contributions. making for him fair nights
work, and after gathering up all the spos, he
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
The British Frigate Shah
Letter to the New York Sun

Letter TO lnt New I OK sun.
san FRANCISCO, July D The British
frigate Shah arrived here yesterday, and
is the lion OF the hour in San Francisco,
hundreds OF NlSlIOrS gong out to the ship
to-day. An additional interest attaches
to the Shah from her late action with the
rebel Peruvian ronclad Huascar sthe
Sun has already printed full details Of the
affair will not repeat them here as gath
cred from the officers. They say their
broadsides made little impression on the
lron-clad, and they were lucky to get out
OF the fight without being hit by one of
the Huascar's BOO pound shells
The Shah is a magnificent frigate
built for the highest attainable speed
She is 3}3 feet long, 81 feet beam, and
draws % feet her gross tonnage is ,2IO,
and her displacement G,0l0 tons. Her
bow is as sharp as the bow Of White
Star steamer She can steam Ii knots,
and under sail alone has made I3l knots.
Her officers speak in rapturous terms of
her splendid qualities and great speed
under canvas.
She is an iron steamship (not iron-clad),
sheathed with wood and coppered, and
was built like the inconstant, Raleigh,
Voltage, Boadicea, Bacchante and Engal-
as to harraSs an enemy's commerce and
either fight on run from an enemy at dis
cretlon. Her engines work up to Z 200
horse power, indicated, and worked to
their full power consume 100 tons Of coal
in "A hours.
The armament is two I2-to o-inch
guns, and eight GA Founders on the spar
deck, and sixteen 7inch guns on the main
deck. Two whole broadside is fired by
electricity controlled by an officer in a
rifle proof tower She is also supplied
with torpedoes and torpedo apparatus.
In short, the Shah is the fastest, the
pest fitted and armed, and in every re-
spect finest trigate that has Aer visited
this harbor, and it is humilating to have
to contrast her with the United States
flagship Pensacola lying close by. The
Pensacola is only half the size of the Shah,
and is a wooden ship with rckety engines
that will not drive her more than six knots
an hour. | do not know what sum the
Pensacola cost when new, but since she
has been on this station there has been
expended on her hull and engines SOP
764, which is only $50, 900 less than the
IoIdl ooAl VI t'lc olIdu' L Ills great outlay
upon repairs to a worthless ship is a fair
sample of the swindling that was carried
on at Mare Island under the administra-
ton Of Secor Robson and Etfigy Sargent.
There IS not an American naval vessel on
this coast that is seaworthy, though mil
lions have been expended upon them.
They are a grief and a shame to the Of
ficers who have to sail in them, yet Ro-
beson has the etfrontery to assert that the
partment.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

The one hundredth anniversary of the
battle of Bennington, Vermont, was the
occasion Of a three days celebration at
that place last week. Among those who
fought bravely at Bennington was Capt.
Samuel Cunningham, the father of the
late Mrs. Porter and the late Mrs. Bishop,
of this city. Capt. Cunningham was then
a resident of Peterboro, New Hampshire,
and raised in that State a company OF
men, furnished their equipments, paying
for them out of his own pocket, drilled
them as much as the time would admit,
and provided for their families in the alb
sence of fathers and husbands. He was
paid, after peace, in Continental money,
which became worthless in his hands, and
was destroyed by him. He thus lost all
his property with the exception Of a small
farm in Peterboro.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

The directors of the Maine Central
Railroad consumated, at their last month
ly meeting a transaction which cannot fail
to prove of very great Importance to the
future OF the company, and will no doubt
have all immediate effect for the better
upon all securities. We are informed,
upon trustworthy authority, that Messrs
j. b. Brown & Sons, Of this city, acting
for themselves and a syndicate" of inhu-
entail railroad men in the State, have
purchased a sufficient amount of the con-
solidated mortgage bonds of the company
to entirely eXtinguish its floating debt.
The result of this proceeding will not on
ly be a relief of the Maine Central from
any possible embarrassment, which might
arise from disturbances in the money!
market, but it will tend likewise to con
siderable advance in all its funded obi
cations.
We are informed, that in spite of the
"hard times" the business of the Maine
Central for the year will show net earn
ings considerably in advance of those of
any previous year. Portland Advertiser
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

President Hayes, with portion Of his
Cabinet, is swinging around the New
England States. Having attended the
centennial celebration at Bennington,
they went to Brattleboro, thence to Sec
rotary Evarts' summer home at Windsor.
The party is coming through New Hamp-
shire, and have been invited by the au-
thorities of Portland to visit that CITY.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
The Water Question,

The friends of the plan for introducing
water into the city, in Difference to the
objections to expanding large sum for
the purpose, coming from wards Three
and Four, at last came down to the sim
plest and least expensive plan-that of
clearing out the Muck Pond, and laying
pipes to the business portions Of the city.
If the Pond should fail to supply the
needs for fire purposes, then there would
be only so much expended towards reach
ing the Shaw springs, which are certain
to furnish water enough. The Fire De-
partment Committee had made a careful
estimate of the cost of clearing out the
pond and laying the pipes, placing it at
S6,55O. 1t was asked for by about one
hundred petitioners, including nearly ali
the heavy tax payers of the city. The
representatives of wards Four and Five
in the City Government, however, under
the lead of Alderman Ferguson, deter
mined to defeat any outlay looking to the
introduction of water, to guard against a
third destruction of the city by fire. At
the special meeting of the city government
on Monday evening, cOuncilmen enough
purposely absented themselves to prevent
quorum. An adjournment was had to
Tuesday evening. Meantime it was dis
nnyaral thot ff tho ini,t r,11aS nft Va
city council provided that no order calling
for an appropriation, outside the general
yearly appropriations for municipal pur-
poses, could pass without a two thirds
vote in either branch, This would call
for four affirmative votes in the board of
Aldermen. An order directing that the
work be done, as contemplated in the
Fire Committees report, and appropria-
ting the sum of So, $50 was drawn and
submitted by Alderman Williamson. 1t
failed of passage by the following vote
yeas, Aldermen Cottrell, ward Bur
CESS, ward . !; Williamson, ward 3. Nays,
Aldermen Ferguson, ward ! Ames, ward
.. There was no remOnStrance presented,
and no argument made in the negative.
1t is a matter of regret that the repre-
sentatiyes Of a portion of the city, should
take 50 narrow a view Of Il matter of such
great Importance to the whole city, dis
regarding the wishes of those who pay
tour-t itthS Of the taxes of the city The
money Of the petitioners, whose Just and
reasonable prayer is thus curtly denied,
has been time out of mind expended,
without grudging, for all municipal pur-
poses, for the benefit of the outside wards,
even to paying four tifths the cost of max
ing the roads to their very doors. 1t is
very much to lie regretted that this un-
reasonable opposition has arisen. But it
may be proper to remind our friends who
make the issue that when the general APP
preparations for next year are to be made,
4 mUofity of the city government can
make them, and that the three city wards
can elect that majority.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

Things political are getting very much
mixed in Somerset County. The Demo-
cratic county convention endorsed the
county nominees of the Greenback party,
except for Register of Deeds. This is
through permission of a sort Of political
'local option" we supposedly which
each county is permitted to judge con-
corning its chest hold"
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

! know several more things about cats, but
shall keep them to myself unless the court obliges
me to disclose
There is to-day in America one young man who
has not interest enough in cat-fght to get up i'll
the night and watch the conflict, OF throw articles
of value at the felines and his name is
GEO. A. QUlMBY.
Of the Boston Weekly Globe.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
According to the New York Times the

According to the New York Times the
Nez Perces Indians, with whom an eX
penslve war is waging, are a much better
class OF red men than the average. Ac-
cording to this authority they are well
endowed by nature, skillful in agriculture,
peaceful, DESTROYS of education, and with
considerable capacity for progress. The
responsibility of the present war is due to
the white men who have wronged the
Indians.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

The Progressive Age republishes the
resolutions of the Republican National
Convention, and claims that, having at
tached its cable thereto, it is riding by
the proper and safe anchor-Mr. Blaines
convention to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

Daniel Getchell of Oldtown went to
Boston Friday and was met at the Eastern
railroad station by u man who said he al
SO belonged in OldtoWn. The two entered
into conversation and began d walk up
town. On the way Il man came up to
Getchel's new acquaintance and told him
that his goods had been shipped, and pre-
sented a bill forSll 10. GetchelFs acqnaint
ance took out what appeared to be TWEEN
ty dollar gold pieces, but the other man
would take them only at par and this
did not suit Getchelfs companion, SO he
turned to Getchell and Offering Il thou
sand-dollar gold certificate as security,
borrowed $40 from him. The two men
went into a saloon to settle their business
about the goods, as they told Getchell,
and have not been seen since. 1t is need
less to remark that the certificate was
worthless.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
Generalitles.


1t is stated that 500 cigar makers are now en-
ployed in Key West Fla.
There was a case of Asiatc cholera in New York
last Wednesday night.
Gov. Common and staff will attend the New Eng
land Agricultural Fair at Portland
The Ncwburyport Herald has dicovered remedy
Tor the hard times,-it is industry
Yellow fever is prevailing at Havana. There
have been several deaths in American ships.
A negro who was charged with ravishing little
girl, down i'll Hamburg Ark, taken from jail
| by mob and burned alive.
The managers of the Philadelphia Permanent
| Exhibition have been losing money at the rate OF
about seventy five dollars day.
Charles Ilarker, cashier of the Union National
| Bank OF Mount Holly, \. j., has disappeared a.
| has also $4,000 belonging to the bank.
| The Western Union AID Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph COS have agreed to pool their earnings
which is virtual consolidation
f. Caskv coored, shot his wife in St Louis
negro church. Thursday during the services
There WAS great excitement. She had left him.
The famous Kentucky natural bridge over Canes
creek in Elliott county, broke in the centre Of il.
arch Il few days ago and tell i'll magnificent ruin,
One OF the most beautiful women OF New York
is in the Boomingdale insane Asylum Whose
| INSANITY was caused bN the use OF enamel on he,
| face.
A hal, storm passed Gloucester township
Canada, Thursday night, completely destroying Tie
| crops Some Of the hail stones weighed tire
| ounces,
The republican convention OF Chester count,
| Pa. after full discussion, adopted d resolutju!
! heartily indorsng the President course by rot.
| of % TO 30
Capt W tlrand, Of Mercer Ky, has a Jrr
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
The New York daily newspapers are

The New York daily newspapers are
prone to lie about the number Of their
circulation-an it is a habit not en-
tirely confined to that class of news
papers The true figures in regard to
the circulation of the principal dailies of
the great metropolis are hard to reach,
but a recent writer, who claims to have
the information from the best of sources,
asserts them to be as follows: Herald,
$1,000; Times, 5000; Tribune, 10000 :;
World, $4,000; Sun, 100000; Journal of
Commerce, 1900; Witness, 1900; Even
ing Post, $4,000; Commercial Advertiser,
5000; Evening Express, 5000; Evening
Telegram, AZ 900; Graphic, 5000; Even
ing Mail, 5000; Evening News, l32, 100.
The said circulation of the News is sus-
tanned by an affidavit. 1t is the great
penny newspaper, and reaches into every
nook and corner Of the vast city. The
World has increased good deal since it
reduced its rate to three cents; its pros
perity is well deserved. The Herald has
also gained by reduction in price. There
are twcnty-six daily newspapers printed
in New York at the present time; four
Of them are German, two French and one
Spanish. Besides these there are l9l
weeklies published in the same city ;
these embrace every branch OF journal
ism and many branches of trade and
opinion. Twenty of the weeklies are
German, four French, two Spanish and
two Swedish Twenty five are theologi-
GAIA better term than ''religlous' when
applied to them. One cheap weekly story
paper which is unknown to scholars and
to people OF true literary taste, has at
tanned the enormous circulation of 40, OOU
though claiming BOO, 900. Robert Bon
sentence; it is still published at Il great
profit, and has made its founder and pro
prletor immensely rich. The Ledger is 4
very good paper of its kind; it has num-
bered among its contributors such writers
as Dickens, Mrs. Stowe, Beecher, Greeley
Hallack and many other notables.
There are now no newspapers i'll New
York that actually offend the laws in re-
gard to indecorous publications, but some
of the Illustrated sensational prints come
very closely to the line. The influence OF
the uncnltlred mind OF pictures of muir
ders and all kinds of horrors cannot fai
to be bad, for it famliarizes crime AND
makes it seem easy. There is still another
class of publications that ought to be sls-
pended, and that is the stuff dignitiet
with the name of '.boys literature" 1t il
full Of accounts OF murders, hair breadth
escapes and such exciting themes, an,
always glorifies and makes Il hero Of the
boy who leaves his parents and runs
away from home. There was a recen
case in New Hampshire of suicide Of ;
boy Of eleven, caused by reading thi
pernicious stuff Such reading is fa
worse than no reading.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

Brother Simpson of the Belfast Journal is quite
III error IN stating that the vote in the Committee
on Resolutions of the Portland Democratic Con
vention, on Prohibition stood six in favor of it TIC
one opposed. The only question pertaining to
Prohibition voted on by the Committee was this
Shall any reference be made to the liquor ques
ton i'll the platform " and the vote on that dues
ton stood i'll the affirmative, II in the negative
and one not voting. Bangor Commercial
We had our information at Portland
from a gentleman who professed to know
We will now amend, in accordance with
the above, by stating that the committee
voted, four to one, against making any
reference to the liquor question.
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

Mr.. Blaine's followers having openly
attacked the Republican nominations in
Ohio, there is no law preventing the fol-
lowers of Hayes retaliating in Maine.
[Calais Times, Hayes paper
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
Gen. Hall Of Damariseotta is going to
lecture on "Unwrltttn Politics" Hadn't
they better be unspoktn likewise

CASnNE Yacht Mi4uon, of Boston is in port
Summer visitors. ladies' and 4entenlcn wear
suits Of blue auuel ~. The hotels have been poor
y Patronzcd this scaaon... Thcr. is one vessel on
the stocks, good sized craft She is nearly
planked....,Only six pleasant days in the past six
weeks, reports an old nhabitunt The writer of
the article III Castine in Harpcrs Magazine is il ma
tive OF this place, but has not resided here for the
past ten YEARS." Phtr follow the paths is the lc
gend one reads on board in the grounds Ut the
Normal School Summer visitors bring with
them the August Harper and diligently search nut
the places described The -Od titlrct Is Il dis
appointed however 1t has been dismantled .-....
The Baptist Sabbath School and Society Of Belfast
visited Castine last Friday Their destination was
Goose Fails but the weather being thick Capt
Gilmore did not deem il prudent to run the boat
To that point The party was small one, owing
to the fog which prevailed at the time Of leaving
Belfast but it lifted before the return trip and the
day proved avery pleasant one to the eXcusionists
The Republican journal., 1877-08-23

The Republican Convention of Cum
berland and Washington Counties have
endorsed President Hayes. Mr. Blaine's
raft seems to be breaking up.