Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-04-19


the entertainment Of the commissioners, Gems.
Knox and Heath and their suits, at Orsngetown,
for settling cartel with the English commando r,
10 Sept. 1882. The bill i, made out to Capt. Hen
ry Sewal and rece pied by Joseph Quits. The
following is copy of the bill
To dinners rs Sd
=" Liquors l2s
" Forage Is l0d
On the opposite page Of the sheet is the follow
ing receipt;
ORANGETowN, Sept. %, 1882
Received of Capt. Sewal one hundI ed and
fifty silver dollars and two English guineas, to
discharge the expenses of the Commissioners
while here. JAMES MULLINS.
Stepping into the hardware store Of S. S.
Brooks & Co, yesterday, we could hardly find
standing room, SO busy were the proprietors and
oblgng clerks in filling the orders for customers.
Contractors for large building enterprises, as well
as those who desire the smallest orders filed are
sure to obtain the best of goods at the Lowest pos
sible price. 1t is of great advantage, also, to Sc
lect from a large and varied stock and this is
the largest and best stock this side of Boston, aud
but few stores even at the hub will compare with
the elegant store Of S. S. b. & Co. They have a
large outfit of agricultural implements, carpen-
tiers tools, iron and steel in almost endless variety
carriage wood work, oil cloths, &c. Just this time
of year it will interest house cleaners and re-
paireIs TO know that the firm has an elegant stock
OF paints, oils, &c 1t seems almost needless to
ask people to 90 there 10 trade, as that is their
present disposition as they know where to get
the most and best goods for the smallest amount
The Standard on Ciy Finances.
The Standard, true to Its propensity to misstate
facts, says that the real debt ofsfhe city has been
ncrt ased to the amount of Sl2,21S5S, during the
last two years. This is the reverse of the truth.
The City Auditor for 1876, who was the Standards
choice for Treasurer this year. stated in his official
report Up. 49, that the balance against the city
March is, 1875, was 1921 ,2i2 81. This was the
net city debt, then, according to the Treasurer
books. There were, however, as there are at the
end of every fiscal year, certain number of out
standing routine bills, the payment of which was
made soon after the beginning of the following
year. Now the City Auditor for the year ending
March 9, 1875, the two years covered by the
Standards siatement--says Up. 6lJ that the net
balance against the city, according to the Treas
urer's books, was S3l9, 1850. This does not look
much like an increase of the city debt Of ocer
tueire thousand dollars, does it But the Stand
ard " i'll say that there have been last year bills
paid the present year That is true. But there
were at least $1,000 90 stsndng bills at the be-
ginning of the new year in 1876, which did not
enter into the Auditors account for the old year.
but VIII ch were paid and charged with the
penditures of 1867, just there have been some
$500 of 1878 bills paid during the present mu-
niPal year. We challenge the Standard or the
person who furnishes it the data with which 10 so
dstort facts to publish plain business like state
ment of the city finances during the last ten years
Ii the City Auditors cannot be considered author
ity on the subject, why just let the Standard try
its hand, and give the public the bottom facts.
The following figures show the net Indebtedness
of the city at the end of each municipal year, for
the last ten years, a given by the Auditors fer
the years named