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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-10


Mir. Cannon explained that Mr.. Wagner
was absent from the city. -,
BARBER-sa0Ps OPEN SUNDAY.
a communication from the Mayor in re
sponse to aresolution that be, be requested
Ito report why tile ordinance prohibiting
barber-shops being opened on Sunday L
not enforced was read.a The Mayor says
:ss / beg to state that at once demanded ol
the captains Of each police-station to report
an answer;to your inquiry. ~ So y
enforced in his district, and when any:y
iafion Is known the parties are promptly
brought before the Police Court for the OF
fence, am convinced that il any violation
of the law takes place it Is unknown to the
police; and il parties who know the law is
violated will report to the police, am con
fident the offenders viii be brought to pun.
ishment.sa Received. -, s.,5 : - = -
- 81 - {, - ~. ~: FINANCE MATTERS. 49, |
Mr.. Scott, from the Committee on Finance
presented report embodying joint resolu
tions authorizing the Committee on Finance
to have prepared! 200 six per cent. coupon
bonds of. the city of Richmond (adapted Y
exchange for registered bonds1 at cost o.
1850, as proposed to be furnished BY the Ma
tional- Bank Note Company OF New York
retunding various SUMS to parties for eX
cessiye tax, &c. !; rejecting petitions OF John
D. Smelling & Co, and All Sands. Agreed
to. q .a..s,.,as. .',.s ..ls. yl.; .a:ze'
cTrrii,. i. - STREETS GENERALLY. ~, ~ !
4 Mr.. Todd presented q report recomnend
ing the rejection Of the petition OF pJarne:
Snyder Young. adopted. - =.
:.--.-.=: BELIEF OF TEE POOR. gz.;s..F j
SMr. PICK eli, from the Committee on Re
lief Sof the Poor, presented the usua
monthly report; which was received ape .
4: .,sg MARKETS. = 75..t
i Mr.Zimner, from the Committee on Mar
kefs. presented an ordinance in relation Il
the snace in the; two markets occupied 81
..-a A L3dr1o5 ~ .-ss-lS-.sze .-5.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-10

E'OR RENT, aR0UND FLOOR AND as
Il CELLAR. No. 9i5 Bank STREET. Apply 70 i&i
ty4.st Real = Estate M AseSf, Sc.e
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-10

81 ca Observation-Disclosures fer whatsoever zen usns
III their Hue, snd yca eAn sase Ineaey o5 ma
yoar purchaser cg fhsnas
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-10

s BY Mr.. thinner a resolution directing
the City Engineer to examine the condition
of the First Market house; and report ceE-
.dition Of same to the Committee on, Grounds
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-10

NEW YoRK, June Z, ls7J
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
Vanderbilt's Magnificent Present.

On Tuesday Vanderbilt addressed the
following card to the employees of the Y.
y. Central Railroad
TO the Employees of the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad Company:
We have passed through a period of
unparalleled excitement. Surrounded on
all sides by a common enemy, all good
citizens felt the necessity Of sustaining the
authorities in the dispersion of the mob
and return of peace. appealed to You
to resist the willtul laWlessness of bands
OF rioters, to protect the property OF the
company and assist in restoring order.
Your response has won the admiration
and respect of the whole country. OF this
company's 10000 employees, less than 500
have shown any disposition to embarrass
it. The property remains intact and UNI
injured. You have everywhere, except
when overcome by outside violence per-
formed yourduties, and your example has
tended greatly to allay the excitement.
| think am justified, under the cir
cumstanceS, in making some marked rec
ognition Of your loyalty and faithfulness,
and have this day directed that the sum of
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS be
appropriated for the purpose, to be Givid
ed ratahly according to their position on
the payroll among all the employees, eX-
cept executive and departmental officers
and the clerical force, who are not direct
~ engaged in operating the road. The
policy OF the company heretofore adopted
will apply to the present as well as future
emergencies. Men who in time of trial
strike and embarrass its operations by
violently preventing officers for doing
their duty, cannot remain in or re-enter
its service. The late reduction of 10 per
cent, including as it did every officer and
employee in every branch of the service
except those who receive one dollar a day
OF $40 per month, was considered a fair
and equitable result Of the company's
business, and the compensation thus fix
ed is fully equal to that paid by corpora
tons or individuals anywhere for similar
services. Your pay will be increased the
moment the business Of the country will
justify it. WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT,
President
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
Tobacco Box Factory Burned-Seven Girls
Perish in the Flames.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 3. Bestering's cigar
box factory was burned this morning
twenty-five girls were working in the
upper stories. -Four persisted.
Later The fire at Bestering's box
mandatory this morning originated in
the cellar An attempt was made to en-
tinguish it without aid from the fire de-
partment, but proved unsuccessful. The
flames reached the roof in an incredible
short time. The employees, mostly girls
We're in the third and fourth stories.
Some escaped through the windows to
the roofs Of other buildings, but it is
feared that eight or ten persisted. Four
bodies have been recovered, SO dstigured
that ii was an hour before any could be
identified. Pieces of clothing led to the
Identification Of Mary Nurre, aged 20
Mena kenba, aged II, Frank Studoer and
Anna Potger. John Blanchard, engineer.
died soon after he was rescued. Two
girls and one man will probably die The
tire spread to six frame and one brick
dwellings,, which were destroyed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
The Ohio Republicans.

The Ohio Republican State Convention
met Wednesday and chose Cen Grosven-
or, chairman, who made speech warm
~ endorsing President Hayes At an
informal Caucus a dispatch says that
Stanley Mathews proposed a platform
declaring for the repeal of the resump-
ton act, the reconciliation of silver, a
greenback currency, and the payment OF
custom dues in greenbacks. Garfield de-
nounced the proposed platform in most
scathing terms, and was sustained by
Cox and Foster. The convention organ
lied permanently by the choice of Gen.
James A. Garfield as chairman. \ plat
form was adopted e-atfirming the Ma
tlona republican platform of 1876, and de
clarlng untalterlng confidence in PrcSi-
dent Hayes, and endorsing his efforts for
the pacification Of the country and for
civil service reform. The resolutions de-
clared the unalterable purpose OF the re-
publicans to enforce the provision of the
constitutional amendments for the pro-
lection OF the rights of all citizens ire
spective of color. They declared in favor
OF both silver and gold currency and in
favor of the reconciliation of silver. OPP
position to further grants Of land or mon
ey to railroads was affirmed
As Il remedy for strikes it was recon-
mended national bureau of industry be
established, and that Congress- exercise
necessary supervision over the national
railrays to secure justice to the public and
employees, and that a board Of arbitration
to settle disputes be established.
The convention then nominated for
Governor, W. H West For Lieut.. Gov.
Fred Noelger For Supreme Judge, W.
w. johnson. For Attorney General,
George X. Nash.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

The New York Tribune publishes an
account of an interview with eN-GoV.
Washburn of Wisconsin, who owns the eX-
tcnsive flour mills at Minneapolis, Mimi.
From this report it appears that Il ring OF
spectators have obtained the Reissue of
in old patent for milling flour which was
never used, but which was made to cover
the important process Of grinding now in
general use. This new process has been
i'll use in Europe for fifty years and was
introduced into this country in 1874.
This gang of patent swlndlers have com
menced suits against the largest millers
i'll the country, hoping to terrty the small
er ones. 4 suit has been commenced
against Mr.. Washburn and he has be en-
placed under bonds in the enormous sum
of 600, pending the suit, The swim
dlers propose to grant licenses at the rate
of $4,000 for each run of stones, and as
there are 5000 runs of stones in the
country, this license will amount to $40
10000 This vast sum of money, if they
succeed, will virtually come out of the
farmers who raise and the purchasers
who consume the wheat and flour, and
will amount to nearly one dollar tax per
barrel. Great Indignation has been cX-
cited ut the West against this netarious
scheme, and an attempt will be made to
have Congress cancel the patent.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

Boston Corbett, the man who shot j. Wilkes
Booth, is sick and destitute at his home in Cam
den, n. J.
Annie Louise Cary is suffering from attack of
hay fever She has been confined to her bed for
several days.
A canoe l6 feet long has arrived at Bangor, after
a passage of twelve days from Charles river. 1t
was rowed by Cutter and Stetson, two Harvard
boys
The Abbott Family School. for boys, at Far
mington, Me-, has been established full genera
ton A card will be found elsewhere i'll to-day s
Journal
The town of Wiscasset on Monday voted a sub
scription of 100000 to the capital stock Of the
Wiscasset a Quebec Railroad Company. Only six
teen votes cast in the negative
July Goth, Mrs. Samuel Spinney of Glenwood
Plantation, AroostOok, having occasion to call on
neighbor some distance away left her two chill
dren aged one and three years asleep in the house
MIR. Benjamin Eastman, who was at work i'll the
vicinity, hearing screams, ran to the house, which
he found in flames. He succeeded in forcing the
door open, but was compelled by the fire and
smoke to retreat and leave the little untOrtunates
to their sad fate
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

We should like to have some of those
friends Of labor who shut up the Vulcan
Iron Works come forward and figure up
exactly how much profit labor has made
by chilling the immense blast furnace
Until the mob prevented the workmen
from continuing their work the company
had on its pay rolls 4 thousand men,
whom it was employing at full wages,
while it made no profit ut all. Now it is
stated that it will be three months before
the furnace can be put in order again.
and meanwhile its workmen must remain
in ideness, and share the idleness of the
quarrymen miners, transfers and labor
crs who furnished the material for the
blast. The establishment paid out some
thing like $4,000 day, nearly every cent
of which went to pay the wages Of labor /;
from 5000 to 10000 human beings de
pended on it for their support. Its stop
page has withdrawn nearly Il halfa mill
ion of dollars from the fund which would
have been paid for labor during the next
three months, and has added an army to
the host Of those who will compete in the
struggle for employment. This is terri
bic punishment for q criminal folly, and
none the less terrible because the limo
cent must suffer with the guilty. GIobe
Democrat, st. Louis
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

There are already within it many trains
of provisions and forage. Prince Mirsky
and Gen. Gourkho might hold it for a
fortnight on full rations, or longer on
short ratons.
ANienna correspondent telegraphs that
the widest panic prevails everywhere in
Bulgaria, where the Russians have sud-
denly abandoned places lately occupied
by them, and all the roads leading north
ward are swarming with tugitives fleeing
from Turkish revenge and massacre. The
fate of the poor people Of Bulgaria will be
drcadtIli No mercy will be shown them.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
A Big Undertaking.

NEW YORK, Aug. |. George Z. Young
4 Son, OF Boston, lately purchased be
tween five and six hundred spars, in
Hamilton, Ont, and in order to save the
large expense incident to shipping them
by rail to Boston, determined to try to
float them in a raft 10y way of New York
and Long Island Sound. \ contract was
made with Christopher Schwinger of
Tonawanda, n. V, by which he engaged
himself to superintend the transfer. The
spars left Hamilton Ont, on the 18th of
June. When the spars have arrived at
Troy, they will be made into raft $50
feet wide and BOG or 400 feet long, which
will be taken to New York by tugs.
once here, the raft will be taken apart
and rebuilt with the greatest care, iron
chains replacing the withes. 1t will then
be taken through the East River into the
Sound, and round to Boston The open
ocean off Cape Cod is not feared 50 much
as the heavy swell at Point Judith. 1t is
expected that $4,000 will be saved bv
this mode of shipment, if the raft should
arrive safely at Boston.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

The Republican County Convention
made short work with Bracket, Register
Of Deeds, who was candidate for re-nom-
nation, and was cut off with one term.
After giving to every other incumbent q
second chance by reclamation, they APP
piled the ballot box lever to his demand
and ousted him by q vote of two to one.
He seems to have had a remarkably Win
ming way Of making people dislike him,
officially and personally, is accused of
charging eXorbitant fees, with numerous
other sins of omission and commission.
Therefore the party have wished him, us
the arch bishop did Gil Bias, ''all sorts
of prosperity, and a little more taste"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
The st. Louis Republican DhilosOphiZes

on the recent riots in a way to show how
the lntONication Of passion drives out and
supersedes the desire for any other slim
ulant. 1t says that it is generally suppos-
ed that alcohol, in whatever shape it may
appear under the handy name of "whis-
key is a powerful factor in scenes of
violence. No doubt this is true of mob
i'll its lnclpiency, but after it is fairly I'M
der way the situation is sufficiently in
toNicating to dispense with the use of
other stimulants. Whislley is the last
thing a gang of destrOyers at work think
OF. The eXcitmcnt itself is maddening to
an extent that no intoxicating drink can
reach. Whiskey makes noise. The work
OF mobbing is done in an undertone, when
men hiss and show their teeth and per
| form other functions of wild beasts They
feel the need of no human stimulant then.
A good judge Of the superficial effects Of
strong beverages somewhere says:
Man. being reasonable must get drunk,
| Inc best OF lite Is but lntoXlcatlOn.
But a mob of men is not reasonable,
| and therefore does not get drunk in the
human and reasonable way. 1t is a
drunkenness Of passion that runs riot and
communicates its influence to the people
who stand appalled, before it. Even their
natural and human and unreasonable" de-
sire for strong drink is quenchcd by the
excitement Of the impending crisis which
threatens them with disaster and suffer
ing. Their safest resources is their sober
| senses, and this knowledge they grasp by
instinct, and they act upon it without
thought. The strike and resulting mobs
have made these peculiaritieS Of human
nature manifest to those who have ming
rents in st. Louis. On Thursday the sa
! looms We're ordered to close, and most of
them obeyed, but the excitement had
been intense for several days before, dur
ing which period less drinking had been
| done in the city than usual in untroubled
times. The saloon men, being aware Of
this remarkably dull business in their
line, closed willingly. There was moth
inc doing and nobody getting drunk. On
Friday the saloons We're opened again,
but scarcely anybody came to see them
and smile over the removal of the en-
barge, The men behind the bar wonder
ed what was the matter with the stimu-
lating patronage And still the wonder
grew and grows. The fact is the mob
contained its own elements of intoXcaton
and the reasonable" men, who ''must get
drunk upon occasions, found occasion
for their sober senses.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

COOP GRACIOUS. The Bangor Wing
publishes with good deal of satisfaction
a set Of resolutions passed 10y the Repub-
lican caucus i'll the town of Etna. 1t
seems that this little local volcano got
into what Mrs. Partington calls "a state
of eruction," and bclched in this wise
Resolved, That President Hayes is a traitor to
his party, to his country and his God.
Resolved, That we will not give him or his in
qutous policy any support either political or moral
This anathema issues from a popula-
ton of 500, in hamlet on the line Of the
Maine Central Railroad. If the man that
sits in the White House don't now call on
the rocks and mountains to cover him, it
will be strange, very strange.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
Report on the Shaw Springs.

The committee to whom was referred the feast
blity of bringing water from the Shaw Springs to
the Muck Pond, thence to the business portion of
the city, for fire purposes the quantity Of water
&c, ask leave to report as follows
Your committee have employed competent
engineer. l.. IL. Eaton Esq, Chief Engineer Ban
gor Water Board, and his assistant, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the levels above average tide
water, and above the surface of the water in the
Muck Pond of various points about the city, which
are us follows:
Elevation shove Elevation above
Tide Water. surface OF
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

Darius Alden has been elected Presi-
dent of the Granite Bank, in place of b.
HI. Cushman resigned. The Colonel is one
of the best business men and shrewdest
fnanciers in Maine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

The st. Louis whskey frauds are com
ing up once more in the courts. The
government has sued Mckee for half a
Million as having been fraudulently re-
ceived by him. A despatch says
One of the possible witnesses is Joyce who is
eide to testify if he his way clear to release
seen the light, from Avery and Babcock. and it is
his friends since his confinement and promise his
pardon for sum of money. which he however
declined to pay over. Mckees defence will be that
and this will lead to a lot of curious developments
don have been distracted from the office of the
Crews affidavit that his testimony against Mckee
this off the files of the Attorney Generals office
barrassed by the importantly Of eNAttorney Gen
eral Williams who was promised a fee of $4,000 for
his services in endeayoring to influence Grant to
pardon Mckee. The money has never been paid
to Williams. The trial Of the suit will make a
lively sensation in st. Louis if it brings out half
the promised developments.
We are likely to get at the true inward
ness of this matter. 1t will reveal the
blacklist chapter of fraud and theft that
this country has ever known.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
News of the City and County.

Dear ucorge am le $40 WAN aaror'n, my
Dog days are terrible Oh paper coiiafS
Aiachefel are DUNG "oun'''H''!' ." "i' n'0'
The leaves are beginning to fall early this year.
The drouth causes it,
This is usually season of sickness. Be care
full of diet and exposure
An si,,rs Of rain f,;, ,hout ttis time-Hkcuise
most Of tbo VOLS and cistorns
s+roo+ oo,,,ro;ss;ooor storors,, i ,,ottir., tho
n,.a,lI,r+ oo,,,,;t;aa
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Inc !ou'"'"l sportsman - getting ie"'! ms
'i',' "''''.' 6"l'i ''',''
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And no" belfast oh'afChs ga! pirate ooiU
rover III search oil houSeh"id goods rom Tue COZ
he Guy ii''S l'''e '''i"''
anon 10 ''' ''i' my VI '''' '' ''
Ansel H. White. late OF the firm OF Ii. ii. John
son co., uaS gone /" Nc" lorR' where h' Va"
be III the employ oil ollchFl"' "H''o'
The latest original conuudrum Whose the
first express Adams, aud the first package Wa,
when Eve WAS put in the garden expressly for him
The T. S.coast survey sch. Ernest Lieut.. Hav
ley, arrived here last week from her station OIL
Iirookhn. She relitted and sailed tor her post Oh
Tuesday.
Cant. AIonz, Shutc ot Belfast Has beeu sent by
the owner, of sch. Ralph Howes. to Lewes, Del.
10 assume command OF tina, vessel aud to proceed
on her voyage
The spritualists OF swalyinc and vicinity. will
OH SUNDAY the 18th. have 1. basket picnic III Mar
den.s Grove. on the west shore OF Goose pond
commencing at l0a. III.
The oldest house in this city Is the one occupied
| br 4 ] Condor. near the corner of Miller and
lIirb streets owned h, fine Griffin heirs. 1t +.
| known AS the Robert Miller house. and WAS built
in I7oa
| anus,
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streets and bio,,,o,.s .vcer,t f, r.nar d,r,,.,..
,y,h,t o., ,rritt. ,,,I, from, ,b,. ,,,ni,irI i...r.
~ .,,n,,.. .tn. on street.
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ne ''''li'i i''''''' WIN 'D' N'''N'"Ni n'nu
al" ABOUT -FOUR hundred people in"d' III excursion
! Ia rlt Al t,,tl, ..
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

Among the candidates mentioned for
the Democratic nomination for Governor
in Maine, should Mr.. Talbot decline, is
Charles II. Haskell, of Portland. Mr. H.
is prominent merchant, highly esteemed
and deservedly popular. He was one of
the Maine commissioners at the National
Centennial
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

The Progressive Age having inclined
to the support of President Hayes, the
Bangor Wing tries to persuade it back to
the Blaine camp by publishing extracts
from the speech Of the editor of the Age
at the State convention last year Those
extracts rather contradict the papers
present position This is pretty sharp on
the part Of the Wing but it must be re-
membered that the country is to be saved,
and that there is but one way to do it,
though politicians may spin forever
down the ringing grooves of change No
matter what a man has been, if he is
right now.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09

The chap that sells bogus jewelry,
gives away the money, and finally doesn't
give it away, recently swindled a lot of
greenies in Camden. People that read
the papers are posted and escape.