Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-12
A Maine man writes to his friends from the

a Maine man writes to bis friends from the
Black Hills country:
There are thousands of men coming 10 the hills
nom all parts Of the country, and what most of
them Will DO Is more than can tell. They seem
10 be qUcer set Of men to mine; they do not
sIrikc cat, but rfmain bcrc N Deadwcod waiting
t,r somtih ~ 10 Turn Up. There are others here
who are msblpl ,cScral hundred dollars a day and
taking out fol .uuus. oar life rcre Il very much
I've camping out Oh the sea-hore, only this means
work. We shall light OUT Of Deadwood as soon
j, possible and 20 for our 'pills little or big.
would advise no one to come out here, unless they
ae prepared 10 endure hsrdshrs that they know
nothing of. There is not work for quarter part
OF the ''plgrins" that come into the hills, and II
they know nothing of mining they are in bad
situation. Three quarters of the emigran have
return ed the next day. Our party has the advan-
tage Of most of the pilgrims, as we all have
knowledge Of mining.
Of Maj. Davis recent appointment as foreman
OF the government printing office in Washington,
an exchange in that city says:
Mai. A. Ii. ;. Davis, selected for the respon.i-
bic position of foreman of the Office has reputa-
ton Tor fine executive ability. besides being
good practical printer, he was six years editor and
proprietor of the Pennington Chronicle, leading
| republican newspaper of Maine. lie was char
man of Franklin County Republican Comm lttee
| two years, we be lieve, and in January, 1872 was
| elected a member of the Maine Republican & I'M
mittee, of VIII ich Hon. james q. Blaine was, and
still is Chairman served ~ years the staff of
ex-Governors Pcrham and Dingley of that State
as military secretary, AMI was delegate from the
| % Congressional district to the National Repub-
licsn Convention which renomlnated President
| Grant at Philadelphia in 1872. Daring the war
| he was connected with the pay department of the
army, and from October 1865, to May 1869, filed
| position in the Bureau of Referred Claims, Pay
| master Generals Office when he resigned to as
sumo the management of the Pennington Chron-
| icle, which he successfully edited and published
until February, 1875, when be sold the establish
| ment Since May, 1879, he has occupied desk
| in the proof room of the Government Printing Of
fec over which he has been selected to preside
| foreman.
| 1t will doubtless interest the many friend. of
the late Hon. Warren Johnson, to know some
| thing more of his illness than has yet appeared.
| We are permitted to quote from letter from his
consulting physician to friend in town:
| "Waren johnson died most terrible death.
| About six weeks previous to my first seeing him,
| he had, by the advice of a physician in Philade.-
Pha, succeeded in suppres,ins an oil ,nsve o1;rAa,
| nasal caiarrh) by means OF strong ISOLATION OF
| tannn and other ingredients. From the moment
the discharge and smell stopped he began to grow
weak, trst with gastric symptoms, later with pain
in the chest, and finally ecchymosi-, swollen,
| spongy gums, enormous swelling of the tongue
| and mucous membrane of the mouth constant
| oozing OF blood, terrible stencil from the mouth
| haemsturia. The blood poisoning was most d
| rect. 1t was clear of PuTpura lI.emorr-
hagcap roduced by the suppression Of the catalth"
Coughs Lecture.
John Il. Cough, the world renowned orator,
will speak at Granite Han, Thursday May II,
| 1871. Subject, Temperance. OF Mr. Cough,
| whom men now sverhaired listened to with ever
| increasing wonder in their boy hood, whom four
| great nations have united 10 cIowning with undy-
| ing aurels whom orator has yet displaced from
| the high rank awarded him more than a genera
| tion sgo,-of Cough, who has never faced
dence that he could not move to tears or laughter
| and high resolves it does not become us to saw a
! word of praise; for he has lived long enough to
| hear the verdict of po.eIity on his wonderful
| career, his original genius, and mighty moral
| achievements.
| Mr.. Cough has delivered mott lectures than any
| other living man. From carefully kept I, cord,
| we find that from 1872 to 1892 he ectured on an
average 300 times year, thus making 5000 lee
| lures. From 1872 to 1850 he lectured on an av-
erage go times year, or 1850 times making
| total of 1850 lectures on temperance. OF these
lectures, 100 were delivered inI,reat Britain and
| Ireland, and 1874 were given 10 Sunday Schools
asyums, state prisons penileutiaries, etc.
| Since 1860. Mr.. Cough has delivered bis lee
| tuIe ON d" London" 30 times "London bv night"
| since 1861, % tunes; ''Iiere and There 10
| Br aiu," since 1861 - times; Eloqueuce and
| Orators. since 1862, 23l times; "Peculiar Peo-
! pie" .ince 1868, 3l7 times; "FAct and Fiction"
| since 1861 81 times: "ilahlt," since ls6j lj2
times; "Curiosity," stree 1866, 100 times; Cir
cumstances, since sos, pos times Nv Ilit paw +"
since 1871, iS tines Now aud Then" since
| 1873, ITO times; might scenes" tonly delivered
| in 20 and ~, : times; Cylinders. MIR. Coughs
| new lecture last season, IL times and "rem-
peraLcc,' since 1851. b63 times, making a total
| If Of Mi, number we add hist giy,n nrevion.lv
we shall fl I'D that from 1872 TO the end Of last sea
son. Mr.. Cough has lectuied no less than 1,5OS
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