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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10
The Burling-Slip Mystery.

! The exirsordinafy occurrence Of Thursday con-
tinues to excite public speculation, but no direct
light has yet been cast upon it, nor is there much
reason to anticipate any Immediate and definite
solution of the problem Both Mr.. George W.
Jewett aud Mr.. 0rville ID. Jewett are dead, and
have made mo sign. The only person surviving
who might be able to explain the matter is Mr..
Dean, and thus far he has kept silence. or rather
he has declared that he knows nothing of the
causes of the explosion They were talking to-
gether-he being also engaged in writing letter
when the catastrophe occurred. There is nothing
improbable in this statement, but when Mr.. Dean
RECEIVERS from the shock he may be able and will
log TO recount the particulars Of the conversation,
aud these may help US TO conjecture mewhat
more intelligently. Public opinion seems to have
marked Mr.. 0rve u. Jeweu as the active agent
in the mischief. For some time there have been
grave doubts of his sanity and the other partners,
it is understood, were anxious to get rid of him.
He might have been naturally incensed by this,
bat he had agreed to dissolution, was to receive
large sum of money upon going out, and por-
tion of this had already been paid to him. The
agreement for a dissolution be had himself drawn
up with his own hand
There is something very startling in this sud
den distraction of life in the midst of property
The house of John Jewett & Sons was one of the
s,undest and most respectable in the country
For forty years and since its establishment its
credit had been unimpeaehed and the wealth
which II had accumulated was great Mr. George
w. Jewett, who was the head of the house, is
spoken OF particularly by his neighbors with great
respect and regret. MIR. Orville ID. Jewett, upon
whom suspicion rests the author of the muir
derous plot was wealthy and had acquired con.
siderable military reputation during the civil war
Everything about the business seemed to be 90
ing on pleasantly and probably, but it is now as
serted that y. ID. Jewett had made trouble and
was 40 uncomfortable partner, to be rid OF at any
reasonable cost. II is said, however, that the dis
sessions among the paitners were little known to
their most intimate friends. 1t is often so in com
mercial and family matters. All seems to be 20
ing on smoothly; no trouble is apprehended;
there Is an appearance of commendable amity
and OF perfect prosperity; and thea comes a sud
den and terrible revelation, darkened by disaster
or death, Of old animosities, and long-co ntinued
though concealed misunderstan dngs. Even now
IL the survivor. Mr. Dean has nothing or next to
nothing to communicate to the coroner, if be
really does not know the causes Of the explosion
we shall be left finally to conjecture. At present
it would appear that there is nobody upon HON
the law can lay It's hand. II o. d. Jewett was
guilty, be has already encountered a swift retri.
button. Ii he was not, there is nobody else tn
suspect, and we must be content to re ard the
mysterious mater as the accident Of an accsdept
-Ne0 York Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10

ersge expense Of horse-car during that period
was So S6; that OF dummy S54S0.
There has lately been discovered in the library
of the University of Heidelburg copy OF news
paper which proves to be the Oldest German peri
odical extaut. 1t bears date Of 1909 and was
printed by Johann Carolus Of Strssbourg
Among other interesting occurrences noted IN II
is the discovery of the telescope of Galileo
Lord Lyons, as british ambassador to France
has salary of $50 900. The British ambassadors
to Germ auy and to Rome have each salary o.
S3j 900, and the latter receives an allowance Tor
rent of SO 0O0 The ambassador ut Vienna gets
$4,000 and the one at st. Petersburg S39,OoO'
Sir Henry Elliot had at Constantinope $40 900
and Sir Il ward Thornton entertains pleasant
ly at Washington on salary Of $4,000.
From the yearly reports it appears that the an
nual aggregate of iron vessels built in the United
States is nov over 80, worth from Sl2 900, 600 to
to Slj, 900 600; and the business expanding year
by year. AT the present time there are building,
or under contract, on the Delaware large iron
steamships of the best class, ranging from l,SOO
to $500 tons burden, besides a number of power
full iron tugs of 200 or 800 tons burden and other
small craft.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10

GENERAL NEH8.

One hundred and FIVE persons have my s.crous-
ly disappeared from New York and Brooklyn
since Jan. lst.
The Bank Of France has reduced it, rate Of dis.
count 70 per cent. The late heretofore has been
Ministers CsmpAausen and Won Bulow are to
replace Prince Bismarck in the German Chalcel-
l)rship.
There are 250 Protestant churches in Palestine
AMI 1900 scholars ia their schools.
Even if boy is always whstling 81 want to lie
angel" it is just well to keep the pre- served
pears on the top shelf Of the pantry.
Ten Of the thiity-six crowned heads are Catho-
lies two are of the Greek Church and twenty -four
are Protestant. tr -"
A lad sixteen years Of age was recently fright
encd to death at Astoria, H., by another young
person dressed as ghost.
A whale sixty feet long has been cast up by the
sea near Tyre. near the same spot where tie
whale cast up Jonah 200 years ago.
Tue success of the steam strect-csis in Philadel-
phia seems to be assured. Daring single week
the receipts Of five hosc-cars averaged 500, while
those Of Eve eu1mies averaged 500 The av'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10
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Az G. u - Il \,
Tuesday Morning, April 10, 1877.
From The Boston Traveller
Another Snap of the Whip.

Another Snap OF the MP
The kind of reconciliation, peace and
fraternity which the Ku-Klux leaders OF
the South offer in consideration OF con
cession and surrender by the republicans,
is illustrated daily in the developments OF
as ,uthern sentiment Wade Hampton,
10 be sure, under the modifying influence
of Withdrawing the United States troops,
has assumed the old hypocli,ical show
of good will lie is butterng the carpet
baggers and 4he negroes with graciousness
preparatory 10 Sobbling them up if they
- refuse 10 acquiesce la the rule OF the
.favored class lie enthusiastically an
nounccs that he will ''support President
Hayes as long as be pursues the policy in
Dictated in his inaugural address," which
means as long as President Hayes sticks
to the experiment OF leaving the freedmen
defenccless against the bulldozars. 1t is
very good of Wade Hampton to spare the
national government during the proba-
tionary period, for other conspiring usurp-
ers might not show even SO much magma
nimity IS that. But the more characteris-
tic snap OF the whip is heard in Louisiana
Just now. Yesterday the npholders oil the
Nichols usurpation held a mass meeting
which adopted series OF deceptive resell
utions containing the usual fair promises,
with this snapper at the cad;
1--WE invoke the considerste Judgment Of the
American people upon these resolutions IN which
we here solemnly declare never TO submit to the
pretended Packard government, never to pay II
dollar of taxes, never to acknowledge It's authofl-
ty, but TO resist it at every point and IN every way,
aud to require that every demand which 1t may
make upon the obedience OF the citizens be Gu
forced only by present ply scal power which We
are incapable of resisting
In connection with this action it should
be borne in mind that the Presidents in
vestigating comm's ion is in New Or Q ms,
and it is pleasant to reflect that, acting
upon past experience, the Louisiana bull
dozers expect TO gain 10y threats and ter
roiisin what does net .ight!ully belong to
them. In Florida, when the republicans
found that the courts decided against
them, they quietly surrendered and obeyed
the democratic government. In South Car
DINA, if the facts and the law shall be
founl against the republicans. they will
submit. But in both States, as in Louis
lana, the democrats began the controver-
sy, as they did the slavholders' rebellion,
by threatening 10 overthrow the govern
ment which they could not control. Now
the question is whether the American peo-
pie are willing to submit TO this one-sided
Justice which means mob rule, and
whether they will be driven into the aban-
donment OF every right under the consti-
tuition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10
Notice..
Piano-Forte Tuning and Repairing.

Mr.. George L. Dodd, from Boston, will visit
Augusta and vicinity this week and next. (suDse
quenty every month";. Work solicited and war
ranted III all cases. First class personal and Man.
ufacurers' reference. Orders may be left at Frank
Plerce's and Horace North's Bookstores, and with
Miss Julia NJ Clapp, No. 81 Oak st.
(Tuuer and Manufacturer since 1857 NIB At.
iention paid to the selection OF instruments for pur
chasers, from the irstclass makers. apr3 tiW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10
Special Notices.
A CARD !!

To all who al suffering from the errors and in.
dlscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early de-
cay, loss of manhood, SC, will send you recipe
that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This
great remedy was discovered by a missionary in
South America. Send selfaddressed envelope
to the REV. JOSEPH 7. INNAN, Station d, Bible
House, New York City. iebG sn teod&w6m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10

To IL. w. Black, Justice OF the Peace, in
and for the County Of Kenncbec.
THE undersigned residents of Aug ista, in said
l. County, being des irous of becoming an ncor-
porated society. under the name of "the Augusta
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals request you TO issue your warrant to one
OF them directing him 10 notify the other apple
TO meet at some proper place, to be expressed in
said warrant, on the goth day of April A. ID. 1877,
for the purpose of organizing such society by
choosing President, clerk agent or agents, and
other necessary officers.
April 9Th, A. ID. 1877.
WIN. b. LAPHAM. GEO. f. WEEKS.
CHAs. Il. Nash. JOSHUA NiE
Il. HASKELL. FRANK Il. NYE.
CHAS. HEwISs. Jos. MILLER.
HOWARD OWEN. T.. b. MORTON
SAMUEL W. LANE. LORENZO Ii. HILL.
ERR WILLS. HORACE II. HAMLEN.
ii. r. BLANCHARD. ELMER w. GEORGE.
Kennebec, IS.
To VIM. Is. Lapham Of Augusta, ir said county.
Pursuant to the foregoing applicat on you are
appear therein as applicants, to meet at the Cny
Council Rooms in the city of August in SAID coun-
y on the goth day of April, A. d. 1871, at clock
In the afternoon, fjr the purposes mentioned 10
said said application, by inserting notification
thereof in the kennebec Jouinal-a paper pub
meeting.
Given under my hand and seal, at Augusta in
said county, this fnh day OF April, A. ID. 1877.
r.. w. BLACK. Justice of the Peace,
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant to me direct.
ed, hereby notify the persons therein nam cd to
meet at the time and place and ior The purpose
therein mentioned.
W. b. LAPHAM.
Apri, 9th, 1877. 63t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10
The Taxes embraced within the provisions Of the
law above quoted re The following. VIZ:

law above qaoted re the following, viz:
Rectihers $20D 90
dealers, retail liquor q 90
Dealers, whole sale liquor 100 90
Dealers 10 malt liquors, who esale SO 90
Dealers in malt liq ,ors, retail 20 Oh
Dea lers in leaf tobacco q 0
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco $40 %
And on lies OF over slC0l, fifty cents for
every dollar In exces, over 5000.
Dealers In manu- actured tobacco 8 90
Manufactures OF stills TO 90
And for each still manufactured 20 90
And for each worm manufactured 20 on
Manufacturers oftobacc0 10 90
Manu- facturers OF cigars 10 90
Peddlers of tobacco, first C ass-mOre than
two horses or other animals 50 %
feddlers oftobacco, second class-two horses
or othtr animals Is 90
Peddiers of tobacco, third class-one horse or
other animal IL %
Pedtlers OF tobacco, four class on foot or 10 90
pubiie conveyance 10 90
Brewers of less thas 800 barrels so 90
Brewers 800 barrels or more 100 90
Any person, so liable, who shall fail to comply
with the foregoing requirements will be subject to
severe penalties.
Persons or Firms liable to pay any of the Special
Taxes named above must apply to j. l.. SfOddard
Deputy, Augusta, or FL. Rollins. Collector of In
ternal Revenue at y, Exchange st Portland, and
pay tor and procure tn; Specal-Tax stamp or
stamps they need, prior to May !, 1871 and WITH
our Further NOTICE.
Special-tax Stamps will be transmitted by mail
only on receipt, from the person or hrm ordering
the same, OF specific directions SO TO do, together
With the neeess ary postage stamps, or the amount
required to pay the postage. The postage on one
stamp is tnree centI and on two sla nps six cents
II IL is desired that they be raDsmited by register.
ed mail ten cents addtio AL should accompany the
application.
GREEN d. RAUM
Commissioner OF intern Il Revenue
ONCE OF Internal Revenue,
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., January Esd. 1877.
fol, et r.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-10
NOTICE..
q. s. Internal Revenue
SPECIAL TAXES
MAY 1, 1877. TO APRIL 40, 1878.

The Revised Statutes OF the U. S, Sections 1892
32H 3a3s and 1893, require every person engaged
any business avocation, or employment which rem
ders him liable to n Special Tax to PROCURE AND
PLACE CONSCIOUSLY IN HIS ESTABLISHMENT OR
PLACE OF BUSINESS STAMP denotiDg the pa 2 me u /
OF said Special Tax Tor the Specal-Tax Year begin
ming May ], 1877, b lore comm enclng or continuing
siness after April 30, 1877. A return, as pre-
scribed on Form II, Is also required by law feveiy
person liable to special Tax as above.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
A Warming to Advertisers.

The insanity of DR.. j. c. Aver of
Lowell, affords terrible warning to
advertisers. Here was man engaged
in the manufacture of a pill, not differing
much from hundred other pills that
may be obtained at any drug store. In
an unguarded moment he made up his
mind that he would advertise, not in
the picayune style Of the ordinary deal
err but in a comprehensive sort of a way,
by which he could reach every possible
purchaser of pills He started with the
idea Of devoting half of his profits each
year to advertising The result might
have been foreseen. He accumulated
money so rapidly that he did not know
what to do with it. When he rolled
together $15,000,000, and had vainly
tried to find some outlet for his increas-
ing profits, his mind gave way under the
absorbing cares Of his vast business, and
he is now a patient in an asylum
for the insane. How easy this calamity
might have been averted. If he had
stuck to the conservative methods of
many of our merchants, and refrained
from advertising he might have been
passing quietly through bankruptcy
now, instead of being loaded down with
his uncounted millions. 1t is danger
Gus experiment for man who does not
want to become rich to advertise, Or if
he advertises at all he must advertise
grudgingly and at long intervals, lest
his profits should grow out of all pro-
portion to his requirements, and he
should find himself burdened with
wealth. Advertising conducted on the
principle of devoting half the profits of
a business to it, is, we repeat, danger
ious experiment. 1t precipitates for
tune upon the advertiser so suddenly
that the chances are he will not know
what to do with his Utica o.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

WAUKoN Is feeling jublIant over the
anticipated speedy completion of hel
narrow guage railroad, by which she ex
poets to be connected with the outside
world ere long. A company of Massa
chusetts capitalists have agreed to fur
nish the money to build it, taking $27,
600 of the bonds of the road, secured by
first mortgage, the balance being secur.
ed by mortgages on real estate belong
ing to the stockholders. The road will
be about % miles in length, and will
connect with the c., D. & M. R. r. at
Johnsonport. The people Of Waukon
are to be congratulated for the indomit-
able pluck and enterprise which they
have shown in thus securing this valua-
BILE adjunct to their growth and prosper.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
Urn coll for tba Mo;no Ro,,bl;

THE call for the Maine Republican
State Convention, signed by Hon. Jas
G.. Blaine as chairman, is. out, and
though Mr. Blaine is the very ideal Of
the " stalwart " sort of Republicans, he
utterly refrains from appending stump
speech at the end of the call; merely in
viting the Republicans of Maine, and
all others who propose to support the
Republican party in the pending cleo
tion," to send delegates. This will be
bewildering to the late chairman of the
Iowa committee, and will afford the pa
pers that defended his bombastic procla-
nation appended to the call for our
State Convention the opportunity to ex-
plain why it is not as necessary to give
aggressive expression to Republican
principles in Maine as in Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

AND now the German empire is in a
real ferment over the anticipated inva-
sion from the festive and irrepressible
potato bug The strictest sort of a
quarantine has been established against
him, and his portrait, done in oil by the
first masters, has been distributed far
and wide among the farmers SO that they
shall know him when they see him.
They will make his acquaintance soon
enough, for the ubiquitous insect seems
to have a mission in Europe and is
bound to travel. Spite of quarantine
and petroleum he will soon be heard of
in countless millions on the borders of
the land, preparing to enter in and pos
sess them. He believes in the Ameri-
can doctrine of manifest destiny, and the
effete despotisms of the old world may
as we'll succumb at once.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
Blaine's Issue.
Gate City.


1t would look as though Mr.. Blaine
were somewhat disposed to enter upon
the late role of Gen. Ben. +. Butler as
a maker of issues. When Butler thought
the war, slavery, suffrage and reconstruc-
ton completed issues, he made speech
which he circulated widely, showing
that the United States should own the
Canadian fisheries, and he tried to fire
the American heart on this issue, We
apprehend that Mr.. Blaine will find as
fruitless and proftless an issue in his
new found one of opposition to annex
ing Mexican territory to the Union. He
assumes that Hayes and the South have
a purpose of this kind and he charges
on the windmill with all the vigor of the
Spanish Knight There is no more
sense or pertinency in Blaine's issue
than in that made by Butler. There
isn't anybody anywhere who is thinking
of adding any Mexican territory to this
Union. But it would seem to be per-
fectly proper to make Mexican cattle
thieves and raiders keep on their own
side of the river, and that is merely
what the administration proposes.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

'O We w. In the District Court
IA NAN E.N>up of Buchanan county,
MAIN n Il EpIz- Iowa, September term
Ellie, Deft. a. D' 1861
To Said Defendants;
YOU are hereby notified that there is now on
l. file In the office of the Clerk of the District
Court of Buchanan county, Iowa, the petition
of John Fulton, the plaintiff aforesaid, claim
ing of L. A. Main eight hundred dollars as prin-
cipal, two hundred dollars as interest and fifty
dollars as attorney fee on prOmissory note;
also asking the foreclosure of mortgage on
lots l and in block IA, in Stoughton s. Nc
Cures second edition to the village now city,
of Independence, Iowa, given by said L. A.
and Fannie Main to secure said note. No per-
sonal Judgment asked against d. b. Frizelle.
You are also notified that unless you
appear thereto and defend before noon of
the second day of the September term of said
District Court of Buchanan county, to be held
at Independence, in said county, on the 10th
day of September A. ID. 1877, a default will be
entered against you and Judgment rendered
thereon.
ID. ID. HOLDRIDGE,
silva Attorney for Plaintiff.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

GEN. DATUs E. Coon, of Alabama,
during the war the gallant Colonel of
the Second Iowa Cavalry, in which po-
sition he won enduring laurels, is now
visiting friends in Davenport. We knew
Datus well when he was the editor Of a
one-horse Democratic paper at Usage,
the first paper published in Mitchell
county, the initial number of which was
edited, set up and printed under lone
tree on the prairie, in default of a bet
ter shelter. He showed no remarkable
qualities at this time, but the war devel-
oped the stuff of which he is composed.
Under the most discouraging and I'M
propitious circumstances he raised a
company for the Second Cavalry, which
was accepted, and thenceforth his ca
reer was rapid and brilliant His mill
tary record is among the most credita-
BILE made by Iowa officers.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20


The Dubuque Times is getting to be an anom-
ally. 1t has swallowed Hayesism all through,
even the surrender of the South to the bulldo-
zers, and has continually boosted of its fealty
to the new tangled Republico-Democratic pol
icy. But the civil service order of the Presi-
dent is the occasion of its raining the walls of
its wrath more fierce and burning than the
storm that descended on Pompeii and Hercula-
neum. upon the head of its late patron saint,
the Presidential Repie,o.
"Vials Of wrath" and ''Pompeii and
Herculaneum' are we'll got in, and we
have no doubt the Times will appreci-
ate the performance; but Bro. Burdick
should do it the justice to admit that
since it's editor received new light at the
State Convention, the Times has said
very little in defense of the policy. The
facilities afforded at Des Moines for a
clearer view of questions of national i'm
port are not exactly defnable at this
distance, but we must admit that they
have powerful influence in retaining
some men from the error of their ways.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
State News.
Deborah is taking preliminary steps
to secure an artesian well.

Deborah is taking preliminary steps
to secure an artesian well.
The second artesian well at Lansing
just completed, is GIG feet deep, and has
head Of 80 feet. The water is abund
ant, flowing at the rate of Is to 20 bar
rels per minute, and is pure and soft.
State Superintendent Won Coellin
has laid out for himself big task for
the summer. Besides his other duties
he has engaged to deliver twenty-three
lectures on educational matters during
the month of August.
The Chas. City Mtel2igenccr says
that A. W. Cook of that place will take
second trip to France this fall, to pur-
chase another stock Of Norman Percher-
on horses.
Mr.. Washington Bigler, a brother of
ExGov, Bigler, of Pennsylvania, recent
ly died at his home in Anamosa, of heart
disease, at the age of 81.
The Euyelo says that Mr.. Bent, liv-
ing near AnamOsa, owns and plies the
sticks on drum that did service
at Lexington, Ticonderoga, and other
points during the days of the Revolu-
ton 1t is 105 years old
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

PRIVATE letters received in Washing
ton from an intimate friend of Gen.
Grant, travelling with him in Europe,
state that the General gives his hearty
approval of and strong endorsement to
President Hayes policy towards the
South. With all the colored leaders,
nine-tenths OF the Republicans IN the
South, the thoughtful, candid members
of the party all over the country, and
now Gen. Grant committed at least to a
thorough and patient trial of the policy,
the foothold of it's rabid opponents is
very precarious.