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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-18
AUGUSTA POST OFFICE.


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SkNF0RD'S RADICAL CURE

HAS worked revolution in the treatment of
IL Catarrh. IL has demonstrated beyond all
doubt that this disease, EVEN in its severest forms,
is curabie, and that comfort and happiness may be
made 10 follow years OF misery, years of suffering,
by persistent use OF 1t. The method OF treatment
stitutioDal, by n remedy prepared by dstilaton,
is the only one offered to The public that will bear
the test OF time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-18
Weekly 4ennsbse SoMrnal,

Published every Wednesday morning, is the
arSest lolio paper in the State, containing news
pohucal articles, agricultural aud scientific matter
aes, poetry, anecdotes, household matter, mark
cts, &C., &C.
Terms, per aniatsm in advance.
transient Advertisements, 81 90 per inen for first
week; 90 cents per week for each subsequent in
sertlOD.
Special Notices, o. so per inch for first week; 80
'ents per week for each subsequent week.
BUSINESS Notices, in reading columns, 20 cents
PEI line Tor first nserton 10 per line for each
"a Jstquent insertion.
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SAnF0RD'S RADICAL CURE
Ekss l. Prepared by Dis!Illation.

LIVERY plant and herb that yields its medical
Ia essence TO II is placed in an improved still and
there mingled with solvent liquid, which, by heat,
1t the healing essences juices OF these plants and
herbs, free from every contamination, pure and
colorless. Thus the active, medical constituents
of thousands of pounds OF herbs may be condensed
into very small compass. In this way Saniords
Radical Cure Is dvested of The nauseating, worth.
less features of all other remedies while its cura.
tive properties are increased ten old. 1t is posi-.
lively the greatest medical triumph OF the age ssss
Each package contains DR.. Sanior1's Improved
inhaling Tube, with full directions for use in all
cases. Price, $40. For sale by all wholesale and
retail druggists throughout the United States.
WEEKS POTTER, General Agents and " hole
sale Druggists, BOslon.
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Aennebfe yournal.

Published at AUGUSTA, MAINE, Water Street,
. 1t OF Court by sPRAGUE. OWEN Il NASH.
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ELECTRICITY

As a grand curative and restorative agent Is not
equalIed ny any element or medicine in the history
oil the healing art. Unless the vital spark has hed
the body, restoration by means of electricity ia
possible IL is the last resort OF all physicians and
surgeons, and has rescued thousands, apparently
dead, from an un imey grave, when no other hn-
man agency could have succeeded. This is the
leading curative element in this Plaster.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06
Tho In test Murder.

For four or five hours q prowling wretch
waits in the street near to house in which
he believes a certain woman is passing the
night. At daylight he thunders at the door
and calls upon her to come out. Trembling
with fear at the sound of his voice she
steals out another way to avoid him. He
sees her, however, and pursues her, and
thus they pass through the streets in the
CHASTITY quiet of that early hour, she flying
for her life, he pursuing with savage i'm
pulse. She is nearly run down. She reaches
point at which she can go no further.
There she turns and appeals for mercy
sFor the love of God, James. don't strike
me !"-and ere the words are fairly spoken
he drives an iron weapon into her heart
with one blow. She falls and dies in the
street. Now is there any doubt as to the
name of this crime? What will the counsel
for the defence call it? Is this insanity ?
Is this the vindication of o husband 8
honor? Or is it that substitution of the
hate of vicious scoundrel for justice which
makes law, authority, life and property all
worthless if it cannot be punished. If this
fagrant murder, this violent and inten-
tional killing after six hours of premedita-
ton, does not end in hanging, our criminal
laws are farce.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

The SIGNAL SERVICE BuREAu.-General
Shermans views on the status of the Signal
Service Bureau of the United States Army
are perfectly sound, and we hope that Con-
gress will adopt them. The Signal Service
is really non-military organization, al
though sustained out of the army appropri-
ations. Being instituted for the benefit of
commerce and agriculture its operation
should come under the jurisdiction of the
Treasury Department. AS it is. the miser-
able pay of the non-commissioned officers
and men comes to them from the army
funds, while the large annual appropriation
for the Signal Service Bureau goes in ex-
lenses that are often as mysterious as
they are unnecessary.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

information will enable the st. Johns Guild
in one hundred tons of coal distributed to
save the important amount of from two hun
dred and seventy-fve down to one
hundred and forty dollars, which
will purchase good many groceries
and other necessaries of life. As the Guild
does its noble work on large scale it must
purchase many hundreds of tons of coal
during the winter season. Our correspond
ent gives the Guild the names of the dealers
from whom the lower priced coal may DO
obtained, and the information will be very
welcome to the Master of the Guild, who
has not been conversant with the market
rates. The low prices have, however, been
advertised in the Third avenue and other
cars for the last two months.
Tho manager of the Guild is. no doubt,
too fuDy occupied with the details Of his
noble work of charity to be able to give
much time to the study of prices. But it
might be we'll to appoint some competent
person to look after these matters, as the
cost OF groceries, -four, &C., may also have
been higher than necessary. Perhaps it
might be we'll for the Guild to state what is
paid there for -four. tea, coffee and all other
articles, and Of whom and in what .quanti-
ties they are purchased, as the institution
may then obtain information that will be as
valuable and as welcome as that which has
afforded them the opportunity to effect SO
great saving on the single article of coal.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06
Tn. H.vv Religion.

It has been discovered at last It Is
not fine spun theory that shudders at the
approach OF daylight, but practical fact in
successful operation. No foreign philoso-
pher, doctrinally doubtful. evolved it from
the muddy depths of his own consciousness !;
but it was developed from the practice of a
body of orthodox Christians in Long
Island town. It was subjected to severe
test and sustained it successfully. poor
fellow at the bottom of we'll found himself
suddenly covered by mass of earth forty
feet thick, and his wife naturally begged
that he might be exhumed. Had the
passers by been pagans they would probably
have set to digging at once; but the
Long Island Christians. who were on their
way to prayer meeting. were saved from any
such result Of mawkish sentimentalism.
Livery fellow for himself" thought these
rnre souls to themselves and they went re-
ligiously on to prayers, like the priest and
the Levite, who trudgcd so devoutly along
the Jericho road some twenty centuries ago.
1t is not wonderful that such simple, prnc-
tical, inexpensive faith should exert pow
erful influence on tho surrounding COM
munity, and that experienced diggers
should refuse to try to rescue the
buried man without pay. Such o ro-
ligion is impregnable, even to the
founder Of Christianity himself Doubtless
if he had been on earth, and added his
appeals to those of the distracted wife, he
would have received the same reply-money
or security; and had he invaded the prayer
meeting for the same purpose he would
have been promptly elected for disturbing
religious services, and for trying to mix
religion and business. Such faith appeals
powerfully to the sensibilities of those who
most need religion, to-wit--thieves, extor-
TONERS, murderers and all other men who
object to being their brothers keepers.
One more step, however, should be taken
for consistency's sake by these Long Island
saints. They should tear the ''Sermon on
the Mount" into lamplighters, throw away
the rest of the New Testament, indorse the
sentence passed in Pilates court and an
nounce that religion consists not in purity,
unselfshness and brotherly love, but in
preaching, praying, singing and in insuring
ones self at the lowest possible outlay
against fire risks in another world.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

Hayes Louisiana may be counted for Hayes.
but if Watts vote as Presidential elector
was invalid Hayes would receive but ono
hundred and eighty-four votes at the ut
most and fall one short of an election. It
makes no practical difference whether the
Cronin vote is counted or whether Oregon
is credited with only two votes, because in
the latter case the election will be thrown
into the House. where Tilden has sure
thing. Hence the desperate effort of Mr..
Evarts to show that State board Of cam
vassers can override and nullify the con-
sttution.
The whole drift of Mr.. Evarts' reasoning
is to prove that tho commission cannot 60
behind the certificates sent up from the
States. But the commission is expressly
clothed. by the act under which it is organ
lied, with oil the authority which Congress
itself or either house of it possesses in such
matter. But both houses have made an
uncquivocal assertion of their right to 60
behind the certificates by appoint
ing committees of investigation to take
testimony in all the disputed States.
It would be moro than idle, it
would be preposterous, for Congress to
order such investigations if the mere
certificates are binding and it has no au-
thority to question their validity. Con-
gress interpreted it's own powers md de-
cided against Mr.. Evarts in advance by ap-
pointing those committees Of investigation,
and it has explicitly transferred to the COM
mission whatever powers on this subject it
possessed itself
The New York herald., 1877-02-06
rau OF midhat P.ch..

Midhat Pacha played for high stake, and
seems to have lost. Although Vienna is Of
all cities in the world the one most fruitful
in inventions framed to affect the money
market, and though for this reason start
ling piece of news reported thence, without
particulars" is always to be scrutinized
closely yet the reported sudden deposition
of Midhat Pacha is so much in the tone and
passion of the play on foot at Constanti-
nople it is so fully in accordance with
all that is known of Ottoman public
life that it should be accepted as the equiva-
lent Of any commonplace event in Christian
capital. For statesman to fall from high
place in Moslem country is not strange.
1t is strange if he does not fall. Midhat
Pacha reached his high cfice under the i'm
pulse Of the recent reaction against Euro
pean ideas and policy in Turkish govern
ment He represented, therefore, the re-
vived Moslemism of the extreme Otto
man element, and at the same time
he was a great supporter of the scheme
for constitution. He lived up to the
mandate of the Moslem party, isolated Turkey
from friendly relations with every Power in
Europe-including England-aud made it
possible for Russia to combine with Austria
on almost any terms. Under his govern
ment, for the first time in great many
years, all the great States of Europe have
been hand in hand in a common accord
against the Turkish policy. That was,
therefore, not success, but failure, and
this seems to have been felt in Constan-
tinople; for, with such policy, the Ottoman
Empire could only stand by means OF its
armies and to stand by these calls for o
well supplied purse. And where was that
purse? London was no longer perennial
supply, for the issue with England was
made as distinctly as with Russia. The
Viziers fall is perhaps associated with that
fact. 1t comedies with the return home of
the bafled ambassadors upon whom he had
inflicted the humiliations Of the Conference,
and is doubtless the immediate consequence
of an English note of very outspoken tenor
received ut Constantinople.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06
what New York Wants.

If it were possible by the wave of magi-
cians wand to change the features of this
city SO that every condition necessary to
her as o commercial centre would be at
once created, what wants should such
change supply? In partly answering
this question we present to the reader
few suggestions which relate to
some of the real wants of New
York. Owing to our insular position
we are cut off from direct communication
with the mainland except by the Harlem,
New Haven and Hudson River railways,
through the northern end of the island.
Therefore it should be made possible to
bring the cars of these lines directly along
side the ships at the piers of the North and
East rivers, so that the shipment of goods
might be rendered as inexpensive as possi-
BILE. The only way to accomplish this is to
widen the river streets as soon as possible
and construct double track water
front railroad, connecting with the
main roads at Thirty-second street,
around the business portion of the city. AS
we are separated from the termini Of the
great trunk railroads that penetrate
the whole area of the United States
from the starting points at Jersey City by
the broad and deep Hudson River we must
devise means for the rapid transportation
of freight from these railroads to the ships
on the New York side. We must also estab-
lish depots or stores for the goods awaiting
shipment, and these must be built along the
water front and easily accessible by the
railroad car and the ship. To accomplish
the first trequirement-a rapid transportation
of freight from the New Jersey shore-it is
necessary to have steam ferries by which the
loaded cars can be quickly transferred from
the railroad tracks in Jersey City to those
laid along the wide river streets in New
York.
BY an easily arranged plan each railroad
can have distinct section Of water front al
lotted for the delivery of its freight in this
city, with separate stores if necessary, but
the whole forming one complete system.
The freight of the Central Railroad of New
JERSEY, for instance, should be easily deliv-
cred after it's arrival in New York at
it's regular city depot, any store
house along the water front or on any
steamship or other vessel at our piers by
rail- without the necessity of disturbing il
until the final transshipment. If this sys-
TEN of cross river transportation cannot be
carried out then we must have bridges
| over or tunnels under the Hudson. But
even if we now possessed all the
facilities for transportation across the
river that could be desired we cannot
hope to turn them to any account until We
have ample space on this side to receive
freight 1t seems, therefore, that the first
want of New York that should be supplied
is water front space for freight rail
roads and stores. This can be given
only by o rapidly and substantially
built length of bulkhead wall that vii
extend at least from Thirty-second street on
the Hudson to Grand street on the Eas
River. With such commercial avenue
completed one of the greatest difficulties IL
supplying the commercial wants of New
| York would be overcome.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

Ice GoRGEs IN THE SUsQUEHANNA and its
tributaries threaten to infict heavy losses on the
owners of property along tho rivers. We gave
warning repeatedly regarding the danger likely
to arise from the breaking up of the river ice
under the influence of the prevailing high tenn
perature. Ample time was afforded for the re-
moval of property liable to injury, and where
this has been neglected the owners deserve but
little sympathy. We hope that precautions
have been generally taken along the Upper Hud-
son and the Delaware, where movement of tho
ice may occur at any moment.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06
Useful In form ation for No
Charity.
Noble

Cnar1tys
The managers of the st. Johns Guild and
the great army of sufferers dependent on
the Guild for support will be deeply in
debted TO the HERALD correspondent who
has pointed out to them an easy method by
which large saving in the expenditures OF
the institution may be made and the area
of relief correspondingly widened. The
Guild has been in the habit of paying six
dollars and q quarter per ton for coal to dis
tribute among the poor, when the same arti-
Gle can be purchased for four dollars and
eiehty-five cents per ton, delivered for the
best quality and down to three dollars and
fifty cents per ton for . good article. This
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

A REFEREES REPORT, now in the hands of the
Judge in Supreme Court, Chambers, contains
{, significant hint to debtors who have been
swin,llcd by sheriis' officers. The enforced sale
Of u debtors effects is disastrous at best, and
oili, ials who improve such opportunities for ex-
to,tion must be classed with the meanest order
nj thieves
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock specu-
1ation was dull. the transactions only aggregating
1900 shares The fluctuations were uniln
portant. Gold was firmer advancing from 1O5l2
TO 1853. Money Oh call loaned ut 3 and per
cent. Government and railway bonds were
steady
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

A NEW CHATTER in the history of Pennsyl-
Vania reign of terror begins this week at Blooms
burg ny the trial of several 'Molly Magures'
for a murder committed nine years ago. Penn
syvanans of the next generation will wonder
why their fathers neglected such cases for so
long time, when the spending of little money
would have discovered everything
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

Dun SPECIAL CoRREsPoNDEST with General
Miles command telegraphs particulars of Il ter
rible march and glorious victory over the In
tiians under Crazy Horse. Tho savagcs adopted
the tactics of civilized soldiers and charged Oh
foot with results which must have Immediately
raised the price Of ponies on the Plains. Tho de-
termination of Miles to fight will be apparent to
every old soldier who reads that the Generals
transportation train consisted OF single wagon
drawn by oxen. Of course the Indians had ex
cellent arms and plenty OF ammunition, thanks To
che prevailing agency system.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

RECEIVER ANDERSON, of the Continental Life
Insurance Company, retires amid t,lmultuous ap-
plarise by the policy holders 1t is to be hoped
that tho farce may now give place to legitimate
drama and that the roles of ''leading gentlemen"
and heavy villain" will not be so incxtricably
mixed.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY @, 1877.
NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS.

Tho Adams Express Company run special news
paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its
connections leaving Jersey City at quarter past four
A. daily and Sunday, carrying tho regular edition
OF the HERALD Tar West Harrisburg and South to
Washington. reaching Philadelphia at quartcr-past
six A. NJ. and W washington at one p NJ.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

The BRAZILIAN Consul Generals statement
about the liscontentcd colonists will be read by
every one who wishes to form AN intelligent
opinion on this case.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

MONEY Is ASKED, and will doubtless he forth
coming. for the reception. location Inauguration,
&C., of Bartholdi's magnificent statue of Lib
erty, presented to us by onr friends in France.
The gift is not made to New York, but to the
Union and it should he received with cordiality
like that which prompted its presentation.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

TIE WzArnER.-The slight depression in the
south Atlantic States moved off tho coast last
exeninc Tho low barometer in the lake region
dcsceudcd in southeasterly direction into tho
Middle States, causing light rain on tho coast
md over the lower lake region and Ohio Valley.
Another and moro decided depression is ad-
v.ncinr from the Northwest, with high winds and
h;ch temperature, and will probably develop into
. torn centre during it's progress over the lakes
and through tho st. Lawrence Valley. The con.
.lition. us present in the Northeast Indicate bad
weather for Nova Scotia by next Wednes,
49, evening. Tho freshct wave in tho
Ohio is subsiding, but . risc has taken
s,..,.o in sections of the Mississippi
M a,J cumberland rivers. Tho storm approaching
,''',. M me northwest may cause decided rise in
!, vras rivers Clouelincss prevails over 'ne
c,,r,al. Northern ard Northeastern districts OF
u, ,.,,,..,, s,,tcs. Tho weather in New York
,.,Iay m PROMISES 10 be warm and partly cloudy,
"r % clo,rIy possibly followed BY partly cloudy or
~leasil.s weather.
The New York herald., 1877-02-06

From O'1r reports this morning the probabilities
arc that tie ,ccathcr IN Nc,o York today sciN be
cooler aud partly cloudy, or cloudy possibly fol-
Iosred by partly cloudy or clearing heather.