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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
PROCLAMATION.
DY THE GOVERNOR.
A PROCLAMATION.

A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas information has been received by the
Executive OF fragrant breach of the laws of tho
Commonwealth by q criminal combination OF I'M
known persons. In the county of Rockingham. who
in the night or the 9th instant, wresed from lcga
custody and wickedly and cruelty put TO death 3
negro woman named Charlotte Harris, In contempt
of the laws OF God and This Commonwealth
Now, therefore, IL Mt the laws may be ytndicated
and these murderers punished, ], FRED. w III
HOLIDAY. Governor. hereby offer reward OF
ONE. HUNDRED DOLLARS each for the arrest
and conviction of auy or all The persons cngaged III
said crime, their aiders and abettors; and REQUIRE
citizens 10 use their best exprtons to discover tic
guilty parties aud bring them to Justice.
~ Given under my hand Us Governor, AND
e. @ under the Lesser Seal Of the Common
az. ;. wealth. a, Richmond,this the 10Th day OF
~ March, 1879.
s.f FRED. W. n. HOLIDAY.
BY the Governor:
IA JAMES MCDONALD, -
q NH 16-2t Secretary Of tho commonwealth.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16

mTBRoAD-sTREET METHODIST
Rev. s. A. STEEL viii preach at II A. NJ. and md 8
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
GARDEN SEED.

MERCHANTS, TRUCKERS, AND FARMERS.
and am now ready for orders, by mail or otherwise,
at retail or Wholesale Catalogues furnished on APP
plication. TOBACCO SEEDS: Yellow Pryor Big
Frederick, One and All. Oronnko, White Stem,
and HAVANA. JOHN +. MEREDlIH,
successor In Garden Seeds to Allison & Addison.
.--' fife 6-3ml
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16

HHILDREN'S CARRIAGES-Jus re-
" celyed large assortment. Every GARBAGE
taken IN exchange. A new lot OF TIN and GRAN
TIE CHAMBER SETS, which l am selling very
low. Cali and examine my stock and prices.
5s ROBERT HAROLD,
q NH IL Is SIT Broad and 900 Main street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16

ME- A GOOD BARGAIN IN SWISS
MUSLIN tIs VARIETY STORE.
$500 Broad street.
Look ut our CHECKED NAINSOOk at 1879.
yard. mn1 o
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
GARDEN SEED. &c.

TARDEN-SEED GARDEN-SEED =
VI Druggists and chemists who deal in LAM
DRETH'S GARDEN-SEEDS can be supplied by lie
at ten per cent advance on growers prices just to
hand Adams Exlra-Early Corn, Landreth's, and
the truest and prettest stock ever saw 81 cents
per car Clover. seed (exra cean), 70 10 per BUSH
el; Orchard-G Grass, 81 40; Mixed Lawn-Grass-
quality used in Central Park, New York.
w. q. FIGNER. Scotsman.
NH IL opposite New Market, Richmond, Va.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16

ME- SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
fcorner Main and Sixth sircets)-On SUNDAY Rev.
HENRY MCDONALD, ID. D.. will preach at IL a.
H., and Rev. JAMES X. HAzEN, d. D., at 7:45
?, M.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
r 1GHTFAM1LY CARRIAGES, csEs F Z

FRACTIONS. BUGGiES, &C.
have large assortment OF the above ar''c's''
Ny facilities for manufacturing al h'H"' o. wa
cles canuol be excelied, aud on that account '''
orders at very short notice and very 10" p''>>'
REPAIRING AND ALTERATIONS ,s
In this department, requiring as mueh SN',' ot,r,
experience as the building OF new carriages
aas..e '.' "os GEORGE A. AlSsLiE'
mbh No. 10 Tenth street
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
PENSIONS.
DEN Ms.
soJ DIERs AND WIDOWS OF THE WAR 1872
Office: No. II Eleventh street. ,nh l.2w Nv
YrTIDOWS, PENSIONS WAR lS,2.-

WIDOWS PENSIONS WAX Isl
w BY recent act Of Congress all widows Wiz" i,y
husbands served in the war OF 1872 fourteen ~
are entitled to pension. ftIt' ue~r Steu ~, nv
cess 10 private data showing the lime VI SeF'tIeS
all Virginia troops In said var which canho. ~ ~:
tanned anywhere else short OF The Ihiru ,a %.
office n. Washington. ID. c. and IS pfep1leu "a ,r
Tn all communications 10 me please state WHY WHY
you or your husband ever received any ~ To% an
land, and also give tho name OF y4ar hu s '''
tain and the csuaty from which he enlisted
,uh ovcwIt Richmond. Va
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
r ANDRETH's GARDEN-SEEDs.
WHERE TO BUY THEM IN RICHMOND

WHERE TO BUY THEM IN RICHMOND.
For the protection Of all patrons OF LANDRETH'S
CELEBRATED GARDEN-SEEDS wLo get their
supplies in Richmond we take this method OF In
forming them that they can he bought of the follow
ing reliable Richmond houscs-viz.:
BODEKER BROTHERS. 1444 easG Main street;
A. w. NOTING. DR., 1549 Main street;
POWHATAN L. DUPUY, 427 east Broad street;
JOHN A. AUGUSTINE, Seventeenth and Franklin
streets;
j. e. +. MASURIER, 1907 Franklin street;
L.WAGSER. Sixth and Broad streets;
Z. p. REEVE, COZ Marshall street,
MILLER & PIERCE, Fifth and Marshall streets
T.. Z. SALE, 2001 Venabe street:
w. W. Wake & CO., Cary and Laurel streets;
DOVE & DAY. Third and Main streets;
DAVIS & BROTHER, Heurico turnpike.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
s,.ss,rAr, NOTICES.
.nTwoRsTEp AND SILK PRINCES


CREPE L1ssE, MUSLIN, and LACE RuFFLEs;
EDGlNGs Of all kinds at VERY low prices,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nd sKIRT-ExTENDERs,
srIK and LACE seARFs,
TIDES, LACE CURTAINS, MUSLIN CUR
i TANs;
coLGATE's SOAPS, EXTRACTS, and TOILET
WATERS;
CURTAIN MUSLIN at i 81. 20, 20, and Soc. per
yard; -. ar
SILK, LINEN, and MUSLIN PoCKET-HAN'Da-
EKERCHIEFS Of the latest styles; =
sCRAP.BooK PICTURES for ornamenting Scrap
Bocks, Pottery &c.;
NOTICES and FRAMES in great varietya
NH ia LEVY BROTHERS..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16
LANDRETH'S EXTRA EARLY PEAS,
THE MARKET-GARDENER'S FAYORITE.

These celebrated PEAS are free from runners,
ripen all at the same time and the earliest and
most productive PEAS IN the market. These are
not he Early Kent Peas which are being offered as
philadelphia Extra Early at low prices, out are
groto7, on our oton Ssed:fdrnI in Wisconsin, ana
not in Canada. as alleged. 1850
DAVID LANDRETH Il SONS,
fe12-6w Seedsmen, Philadelphia.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-16

OFFICIAL yIsIT-SALE OF a MAJORITY INTER
EST IN A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN THE Apo
MATTOx-A GRANGE BANK TO BE ESTAE.
LIsHED-HEAvY TOBACCO RECEIPTS, &C.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
HaIlOWell Post Once.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Western Mail arrives daily, Sundays excepted
al 3.39 and 800 p. Nj. closes at | 40 A. NJ, and
for the night Pullman train at 2. NJ.
Eastern Mail arrives daily, Sundays excepted
at 5.57 ana ll.55 A. NJ; closes at $40 and
2. NJ.
Litchfeld Mail arrives on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, at 10 A. NJ; closes Sundays
Tuesdays and THURSDAYS at s Z. NJ.
Office Hours from 80 A. NJ. to $50 p. NJ. A:
no mail arrives on Sunday, the office will remain
closed on that day Mails made up on Sunday
evening for the Monday morning trains
+. ROWELL, p. NJ.
Hallowel, December, 1877.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
Real Estate For Sale.

vCHE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR SALE:
two story house, lot and garden on ;Academy
street in Hallowell.
A small house, lot and garden in Chelsea, oppo-
site Hall0well Village.
small house and lot in Farmingdale, near the
road to Litchteld
A farm and buildings in Nassalborough, called
the frank Doe place on the river road south OF
Getchelps Corner good grass farm Barn
good. House rather old.
valuable farm in fayette, ne1r Fayette Mills.
Has good buildings, maple orchard, cedar
swamp, line land for cultivation, favorably siIuat
ed. Wonid sell ior 5000 ii near the kennebec
river, but W II be sold at Il bargain. Apply to
II. X. BAKER.
Halloween, April 3, 1878 apj-f f&wtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
Ntnnrbrt Journal.
rtoilshed at AUGUSTA, MAINE, Water Street
'"pt ot Court by SPRAGUE, OWEN 4 NASH.
9aily 4eunshse journal,
Meekly Aennebse 5ournal,

Published every Wednesday morning, is tn,
arScst lono paper n the state, containing news
potcal ARTICLES, agric alttra and scent c m alter
es, poetry, anecdotes, household matter. mark
ets, &C., &c.
Terms, per GHnuHa IN ddpdnce.
Trinsient Advert seme ~ GO per inv for q,
week; % cents per week for each subsequent in
seftion.
Special Notices, - so per inch tor hrst week s.
30 lts per week for each subsequent week.
Business Notices, in reading columns 20 cent
pc line Tor hrst insertiUn; 10 cents per ne TO q
sequent insertion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
AUGUSTA POST OFFlCE.

OFFICE Hours.
For delivery of letters, from 7.3O A. NJ. 70 s.3t
On Sundays. from sl5 A. NJ. to 1915 AN
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Boston, Portland and West, 2.jj A. NJ. g. 4G and
.07 Z. NJ.
Lewiston aud Auburn, 346, 6 and S07 p NJ.
Bath and Rockland $40 and o.07 2. NJ.
Rocklard stage, via Washington, q I. NJ.
Walcoboro stage, via Jefferson . Z. NJ.
Belgrade, Vest Waterville, Norridgewock anc
.dlson, l.30 Z. VI.
Winthrop and Monmouth 6 Pm
Pennington stage via keadied l.30 p. NJ.
Belfast, l.42 A. NJ and 1913 Z. NJ
belfast Stage, HOO y. NJ
Skowhegan | AZ A. NJ
Grand Trunk X. K and Canada, 3 4G and s.O7
r. NJ.
soldiers Home Ills a. NJ. and 200 p. Nj.
MAILS CLOSE.
Portland, Boston and West, $50 and ll.lj \. n
l0P. NJ.
Lewiston and Auburn, $50, s 80, HIS A. NJ.
b .th and Rockland, $50, and ll.l5 A. NJ.
X c<land stage, via Washington, 100 A. NJ.
W,ldoboro' stage, via Jefferson, 100 \. NJ.
Be grade. West w Watervile, Norridgewock anC
MADISON, l.30 p. NJ.
Winthrop and Monmouth $50 \. NJ.
Farmnston stage via Readfeld, l.30 z. NJ.
Belfast, 3.3b Z. Nj. and 1000 L. NJ.
Belfast stage 3.30 7. Nj.
Skowhegan, $50 r. NJ, aud 1000 Z. NJ.
G.and Trunk L. X. and Canada $50, ll.l5 : M.
Soldiers Home I \. NJ. and $50 Z. NJ.
DOMESTIC POSTAGE.
Drop Letters, per IL OF. ! cent.
Mail Letters per IL OF. cents.
Books, transient newspapers, and other tr, ..-
printed matter except unsealed circulars) in pack
ages not exceeding lbs. 10 weight, per ounces,
cent.
Unsealed circulars, merchandise, and samples,
in packages not exceeding lbs. in weight, per
ounce cent.
All matter not prepaid at letter rates must be so
wrapped that ii be examined, and must col
tain no writing Whatever, except as follows
The sender of any article Of third class mail
matter may write his or her name or addi ess
therein, or on the outside thereof, with the word
from" above or preceding the same, or may
write briefly print on any package the number
and names of the articles nclosed.
Liquids glass and explosive chemicals are ex.
cuded from the mails.
MONEY ORDER OFFICE.
Especial attention is called to the Money Order
system as a safe and cheap method OF transmitting
small sums OF money through the mails. Orders
are issued for amounts not exceeding 500. Larger
amounts can be sent to the same person at the
same time by additional orders
RATES.
Orders not exceeding Sl5, l0cents.
~" over $l5and not exceeding $50, l5 g
~" i" $50 " " $40, 20 "
"" " $40 =" " l." $50, 25 "
Money orders are also drawn by this Office on
Canada, Great Britain, Germany, and Switzerland.
REaIsTEEED LETTERS.
Letters, and other valuable packages, may be
cgistered to any post-offce in the United States,
n the payment of letter postage and a fee Of ten
cents. HORACE II. HAMLEN, p. NJ.
Jan.l. 1873. >t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
II Is SAFE
Design for a Soldiers Monument.

An appropriate design for Soldiers Monument
is wanted by The Augusta soldiers Monument AS.
soclation: IL should be accompanied by plan and
specifications. Cost OF Monumen mt must not exceed
$s00O.
reasonable sum VIII be paid for an acceptable
design above named.
BY order of the Board of Managers.
Address for months,
H.. +. BLANCHARD, Secretary,
Augusta, Me-, Jan. 2sth, 1875.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
For Sale.

| $500 Cottage House and lot of land, 90xl00
feet.
$1,000 Story and half house and L, containing
ii rooms, good location. Rents for Sl50 per
annum. Suitable for two families.
$1,000 Story House, Several acres of land
fruit trees, and all conveniences.
Story and a half house and three acres of land
forSl
Farm within 2 miles of Kennebec Bridge
good barn, id farm is suitably divided into til
lsge, pasture and wood land for $1,000; also a
number of other places. Houses and lots, and
lots to build oD all IN this city.
| $1,000 farm, within miles of this city; also
desirable rents. Inquire OF
L. W. WHITEHOUSE,
Attorney at Law.
Augusta, Me.
April II, 1873. t&wu
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-09
SALEM LEAD COMPANY.

Warranted PURE WHITE LEAD.-Well
known throughout New England as the WHIT
EST. FINEST. and BEST.
LEAD TAPE, SIS in. wice, OIL reels for Cur
taa sticks.
LEAD RIBBON, from IL to 5 inches
wide on reels for Builders.
LEAD PIPE, ,'of any size or thickness.
At the lowest market Prices for goods Of equal
quality. FRANCIS BROWN,
marl6-tW&S&wlv Treasurer, Salem Mass.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29
COnStantinOple Socially.

A traveller through the East sends q
letter to the New York Tribune, from
which the following is condensed for the
purpose of showing the social and polit-
ical condition of Constantinople, as it
appears to professional. The war
naturally worked a sad change in the
lives of poorer classes. With the depre-
citation of paper money came a dispro-
portionate advance in the price of bread.
stuffs, and consequent suffering among
the people. One instance is cited us hav-
ing come under the writer's observation.
A young girl who was able to earn five
piastres day, with which to support
her mother, two sisters and herself,
stood before bakers shop with her
veil fallen to the ground and her eyes
flashing with anger, while her whole at
titude be'okened grave alarm. She had
gradually seen the price of bread in
crease while her own wages remained
unchanged, until at last she had been told
her money was no longer sufficient to
keep her family from actual starvation
The picture of that poor sufferer was one
typical of the invaded and doomed re-
gion. The parent government is no
longer able, if it is disposed, to help its
children, and the tradesmen are rude
and grasping in their demands. The
condition of that section of the world is
deplorable, but it is such as inevitably
follows an unsuccessful struggle at
arms
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29
A Dangerous Position.

On the coast of Normandy the women
ore tough and hard to kill. A few weeks
ago the wives of three fishermen, having
filled their baskets with shell fish, were
going home, when they found them
selves suddenly in the midst of dense
fog, which prevented their seeing land.
But they knew their way, and walked
on. This was about six o'clock in the
evening. When they thought they were
near home they were surprised by the
tide. They walked as long as they
could, but at length had to stop. Tue
water was then up to their knees. They
had to remain in the water till the tide
receded, the fog being still dense. They
screamed as loudly as tn y could, but
heard no voice in reply, and they were
finally overtaken by the morning tide.
Meanwhile their husbands were running
up and down the sands with lighted
torches, screaming with all their might ;
but neither party saw nor heard the
other. At last the fog cleared away and
the tide ran out, and the three fisher
mems wives we're rescued, after having
been in the water twenty-five hours,
and during a night when the frost had
bitten every tree in the neighborhood.
They did not seem to feel much the
worse for their adventure, and were in
clined to laugh over it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29

noble of Spain" "Away, holy broth
erhood of Spain; keep your hands off
gentleman of France"
The soldiers fell back amazed and
irresolute, while we stood and fought in
the narrow pass, where there was not
room for more than man to stand. Our
swords had scarcely recrossed when the
Marquis fell, pierced to the heart.
rushed forward to support him, when
my second, holding me in his iron grasp,
shouted: "Stop where you are One
foot forward and death stares you in the
face, and that upon the scaffoldp' His
words were interrupted by shrek, and
We saw Milanetta fling herself upon the
dead body, uttering the most passionate
ordinations of agony and tenderness.
My second gnashed his teeth, when he
saw and heard her. be IaDi--3 - l.c-
and tore l,.s .n4Ishly from the body
which she embraced. She uttered a
heart piercing shrek, and, falling on her
knees and clasping her hands, she ex-
claimed:
"Forgive me, father, forgive me !''
Dishonored |" answered he, with
gloomy voice. "Then die with him |"
and with one blow of his knife he laid
her lifeless at his feet. Then lifting up
her body he flung it to me, saying: "She
who loved a hated Frenchman is not
worthy of finding grave in her country;
the soil Of Spain rejects the body of
Milanetta.
"The guards of the holy brotherhood
surrounded the smuggler, who threw his
knife away and held out his hands 10
them.
"Bind me, )" said he, 81 am the leader
of the smugglers-you can hang me at
once for smuggling, but not for killing
my daughter. You have outlawed the
smuggler, and therefore he takes justice
into his own hands,"
My estate was confscated, my es-
cutcheon disfgured, my castle burned
and price set upon my head; but hea-
ven has punished me in lengthening my
existence and protracting my sorrows. l
have survived this event fifty years, but
my heart is still young in recollections
and sufferings, and from that time have
never trod upon the soil of my coun ry!
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29
The Telephone Novelty.

A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says When we begin to use
telephone for the first time there is
sense of oddity, almost of foolishness, in
the experiment. The dignity of talking
cons SITS in having listener, and there
seems kind of absurdity in addressing
a piece of iron, but we must raise our
respect for the metal, for it is anything
but deaf. The diaphragm of the tele-
phone, the thin iron plate, is as sensitive
as the living tympanum to all the deli.
cate refinements of sound. Nor does it
depend upon the thinness of the
metallic sheet, for piece of thick boiler
plate will take up and transmit the notion
of the air-particles in all the grades OF
their subtility. And not only will it
do the same thing as the tympanum,
but it will do vastly more; the gross
dead metal proves, in fact, to be hum
dred times more alive than the living
mechanism of speech and addition.
This is no exaggeration. In quickness,
in accuracy, and even in grasp, there Is
perfection of sensitive capacity in the
metal, with which the organic instrument
cannot compare. We speak Of the pro-
verbal "quickness of thought" but
the telephone thinks quicker than the
nervous mechanism. Let word be pro-
nounced for person to repeat, and the
telephone will hear and speak it hun
dred miles away in tenth part of the
time that the listener would need to
utter it. Give man series of half
dozen notes to repeat, and he cannot do
it accurately to save his life but the
iron plate takes them up, transmits them
to another plate hundreds of miles off
which sings them forth instantaneously
with absolute precision. The human
machine Gun, hear, and reproduce, in its
poor way, only single series of notes.
while the iron ear of the telephone will
take up whole chords and trains of
music, and, sending them by lightning
through the wire, its iron tongue will
emit them in perfect relations of
harmony.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29
Death from Oyer.Eating.

A French cook named Paquette set out
from village Oh the upper Ottawa,
Canada, some time ago, to walk to Cat
ineau Point through the snow, having
supplied himself with provisions enough
to last him several days. He proceeded
quietly on his journey for the first day,
but on the second, a binding snow storm
came on, and he lost his way. At tho
end of the third day, the provision bag
gave out, and he had not the slightest
idea of his whereabouts. On the seventh
day he had grown so weary that he was
unable to walk any further. He lay
down in a snow bank and made up his
mind that there he would have to per-
ish. He had been there but few min
utes when horse and cutter came in
view, and he had barely sufficient
strength left to hail the driver. He sue
ceeded, however, in the end, and it
turned out to be priest, to whom he
told his story. The priest drove him
to the parsonage and gave him some
thing to eat. Ho then left him alone at
the table whilst he went outside to look
after his horse, and when he returned,
found Paquette lying on the floor writh.
ing in agony. He had eaten too much
and died before p physician could be
sgmmoped
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29
Movements of the Stars.

The star known as Groombridge,
though in the category of fixed stars,
moves at the rate of not less than two
hundred miles per second. With this
speed it cannot be stopped in its career
by any star which it may approach, or
compelled to form an orbit around q star
or star group. Whence originated this
enormous velocity? The combined at
traction of all the stars known to astron-
omers would not confer it. It must have
begun outside of our visible universe.
The star will pass through that universe
with unchanged course. We knowneither
whence it came or whittier it is going.
AS to the proper motions of other stars,
they are so different in their direction
and speed, that we must conclude that
the stellar universe has neither the sta.
biity nor the regularity of our solar
system. But these and other considera-
tions--in fact, all modern scientific dis.
ooveries and research-~point to the con-
olusion that'our universe had q beginning
and will come 10 an end y