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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-09

Nice Elastic Cord, cent a yard.
Palm Leaf Fans, cts. each.
Black Lace Wells, 25cts (lormer price ~
Black Lace Scarts, 80 - and 90
Ladies' White Lace fies from - cts up.
Good Quality sun Umbrellas for 40 cts.
Lot oil Dark Kid Gloves only 80 cts.
Good Spool Cotton, 10 cts. a dozen.
tieo. A. CIark's Machine Thread, cts.
Mems Thin Undersh irts. q cts. each.
Mems Paper Collars extra quality for lOc box.
1 Pairs Ladies' Cotton Hose for % cts.
5 Ladies' Linen Handkerchels tor % cts.
Good Towels, . cts. each.
Ladies' sets of Collar and Guns, 25 cts.
Nice Double Ruching, 10 cts yard.
Good knitting Cotton, cts ball.
II dozen agate shirt buttons for 3 cts.
Ladies' Nickle Plated Back Combs, - cts.
Mems Linen Bosoms, II, % and 81 each
Perry Davis Painkiller. 20cts. ID bottle.
Castora "a substitute Tor Castor OH . cts.
Green's August Flo yer Cior dyspepria) cheap.
Ladies' Lisle Thread Gloves only 10 cts pair.
Ladies' Gold Plated Cuff and Barb Pins very
cheap.
Children's Hose from 10 cts to - a pair
Ladies' White Hose, finished feet Tor 10 cts.
Bordered Cotton Handkerchiels ior % cts,
Mosquito Netting, 10 cts yard.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup, % cts.
Linen Table Covers tor 40 cts.
Ladies Silk Handkerchieis, 20, 81 and 20 cts.
Mems Linen Covered Paper Collars. ~ cts. a box.
Mems Suspender4 for l5 cts. apalr.
Rubber Fine Combs. 8 cts. each.
Good Tooth Brushes for 10 CTS.
Fifty Picture Albums from 20 cts. to d. 90 each.
Ladies Work Boxes, 20 CTS. each.
Schenck's, Ayers Wings WrighPs Pills, q cts.
Ayers Hair Vlgor IS css.
Halls Hair Remover IS cts.
Knowles Hair Restorer b5 cts.
kennedy's Medical Discovery only Ills
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic 81 10.
Vegetine blood Puriner) IS cts.
Hoyps German Cologne 10 Cts.
Alcock's Porous Plaster 20 cts.
Ayers Sarsaparilla Go cts.
Peruvian Syrup % Cts
Sanfords Jamaica Ginger, 40 cts.
Saniords Catarrh Cure, cheap,
Rush's Sarsaparilla and Iron, cheap,
Hosteter's stomach Bitters, cheap.
Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam % cts
Atwoods Jaundioe Buffers 20 cts.
Johnson's Anodyne Lihiment l5cts.
Hagans Magnolia Balm only 81 cts.
Best Brown Ddck Oyeralis soc "A pair.
Ladies' Fine Handkerchieis for 25c,
5 Papers OF Good Pins for Toe.
New lot 10 Bone Corsels for Soc,
Extra % Bone Embroidered Corsets for al 90.
very Pretty Vases for SOC and q a pair.
All Linen Towels for sc each,
Chldren's Round Combs s, 10, 15c each
All Linen Table Covers loi Doc
New Lot Ladies' Raches for loo a Dozeu.
2 pairs Ladies' Striped Hose for l5c
Ladies' White Hose &c pair,
Nice Linen Damask Towels 25c each
Good Wallets 10, % and Soc each
All Linen BOsoms IL, 20, 30, IS, 33c each
Good Note Paper and Toe a Ouire,
Good Periumery for loo Bottle
Nearly all kinds OF Pills for 2Oc Box.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-09
TONTINE PLAN.

Or upon the principle OF accommodating profits fol
definite periods, which was frat introduced by thif
Society, and has been recommended and endorsed
by eminent experts In Life Insurance, and by lead
ing business men. forty.four per cent. has beer
earned and accumulated on the premiums paid or
sit Tontine Life Policies, and forty per cent on lis
We years.
The Directors OF the Equitable Life Assurance
Society represent exclusively the inter epts of III,
foiicy-noidersI and presenting the Society to no
tee they fee that IL has strong claims upen pnbli,
confidence because OF the strIct and conseryatIv,
principles by which its various departments ar
governed. IN the assets ana In the administration
OF the Society perfect security is given for the I'm
ture, wnlcn ID oil great Importance to those depend
ing Upon their insurance policies for the ultimats
pport of their families.
No Life Insurance Company has such args an
nual transactions as the Equitable; none la NOR,
promptand just in its dealings,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-09
SANF0RD'S
JAMAICA
GINGER.
iuly30-4w
new RICH BLOOD!

Parsons Purgative Pills make New Rich Blood,
and will completely change the blood IN the entire
system in three months. ANY person VINO VIII
take pill each night from t. II weeks may be
restored to sound health IT such "A thing be posi-
BILE. Sent bv mail tor letter stamps. |. ). JOHN
son Il CO., Bangor, Me. Julyli'lw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-09

Premiums are received and Losses are paid in
cash only. Policies are issued payable a. the death
Of the Insured, also payable at the end of certain
lumber OF years. Policies are also Issued on the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-09

The Lives Insured by the Society are careful,
selected in different parts OF North America an,
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera
tons, an additional and exceptional safety 70 tn
Polcy-bolders. The assurances are made only or
the Mutual Premiums Principle. Tn Surplus art
returned annually to the Iasured.i
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
A Wonderful Spring.

Silver Springs, Florida, is one of the
greatest curiOsities of the South. 1t
bubbles up in basin nearly 100 feet
deep and sbout an acre in extent, send
ing from 1t deep stream 60 to 100 feet
wide, and extending six to eight miles
to the Oclwhs river. In the spring it.
self sixty boats may lie at anchor,
quite a fleet. The spring thus forms
natural inward port, to which three
steamers run regularly from the st.
Johns, making close connection with
the ocean steamers at Pllatka. The
clearness of the water Is truly wonder
ful. 1t seems even more transparent
than air. You see the bottom so feet
below the bottom Of your boat, the ex-.
act form Of the smallest pebble, the
outline and color OF the leaf that has
sunk, and all the prlsmatic eolOrs of
the rainbow are reflected. Large fish
swim in 1t, every scale visible and ev-
cry movement distidctly seen. If yeu
go over the spring in boat, you will
see the fissures in the rock from which
the river rushes upward like an invert.
ed cataract,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
Fact, Fancy and Fun.

No moose is good news exclaimed
the fellow who was about to be hanged
when the sheriff informed him of his
pardon.
Il find your recommendations very
good, Bridget Yes, ma'am. And
now I'll sec yours, ma'am, if you
Place
Archery is most dangerous amuse-
ment for young women. They are
sure to make an-arrOw escape from
their besux.
Il say, waiter, I've just cracked this
egg. Look at it, Waiter-'Don't
look very nice at that end, sir, must
say. Try the other
First lady-'Why do they call those
balls foul?' Second lady-'DOD't know,
unless the pesky things are continually
flying over the fence
Fine Nansook, embroidered, makes
lovely little slips for children, says
fashion writer. Orange peel on aside
walk confines to be good enough for
men.
How came you to have such short
nose" asked city dandy of country
boy. so that / would not be poking
it into other peoples business was
the reply.
Buck beer, cucumbers and young
onions make nice, wholesome lunch
to 90 to bed on this time of year, pro-
vided ones conscience is clear and his
will made.
Col. Inger5oll wept when he heard
Lolita sing Sweet 3y-and-By.' May
be. But he would swear if he could
hear the young man over the way play
it on an accOrdeOn.
Square umbrellas are reported as the
latest thing in Paris. That's nothing.
We have been using square umbrellas
Il long time, at least they are never
round-when wanted.
An enthusiastic Indiana editor wrote,
The battle Is now opened; but, alas!'
the intelligent compositor spelt battle
with an 'O,' and his readers say they
have suspected it all along.
Meta writes from Clinton, asking
why all the holier men in the country
are college students? We give it up,
Meta, unless 1t is because the hand
5puo OuOo 6I0 oil DOIu pOOT, dQu Dc.
come newspaper editors.
He had brought her the very things
she wanted from the supper table to
her safe retreat on the stairs, and she
was moved to say, half laughingly,
"You are man after my own beart,
Mr.. B" "Just what am after"
he answered, quick as a flash, cover
ing her with confusion.
Conundrum by Archimedes johnson:
"Why do de cOlored man always at
track mo- attention from ASSEM- blages
OBJ people dan de white brudder do?
Glib her up? Kase de colored gemmel-
man 10 always de scenter OBJ de group!"
People who are always longing for
lodge in some vast wilderness wouldn't
be happy If they had one. Fist thing
they knew they would be bowling
for a street car, five cents worth of fine
cut, and an evening paper.-NeV York
Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
The Claims of the Democratic
. rl 30 IG Party, 1ru.

The certificate of character which the DEM
claim to their suffrages, for placing the Dem
ocratic party in the control of all branches of
the government, is substantially as follows:
"In return for the long trust of the govern
ment in our hands we tried to break up the
Union, because the people elected Presi-
dent We made four years war which
filed the whole land with bloodshed, angry
passions and mourning; which cost in money
and in destruction of property more than
10000 million dollars, all OF which was ex-i
tinguished from the country's wealth; which
killed quarter of million of American men
and scattered the MANNED and the broken in
constitution all over the nation; which caused
arrangement of money, credit, and of every
line of business and property, whose effects
have made a loss greater than the money cost
of the war, and which still continue. - 'ign
'During and since the war We did all we
could to break down public credit, and we
are still working at the same desperate game.
Pardoned, in the South, and with property
and political privileges restored: we have con-
quered by bloody means all citizens who are
loyal to the Union, and have abolished free
elections, We tried to obstruct the lawful
declaration Of President when it had been
carried in legal form We then made sol>
emn compromise by. the creation of an Elees
toral Tribunal, and then we faithlessly tried
to repudiate its decision. After that we
conspired to make Congressional emeute to
set up usurper President and thus precipi-
tate the country into a struggle for the
possession of the government: which would
inevitably have brought on civil war.
Frightened by the popular condemnation OF
this, lest it might defeat the party in the
election, we made an ostensible disclaimer,
merely to temporize till afternoon; but we are
keeping the conspiracy alive, to be precipita-
ted if we capture Congress. We have done
all we could to break up the Union, and are
still doing and will continue to do all we can
to destroy the public credit and the money of
the people, and to keep the country under
threat of anarchy and revolution, which shall
be destructive toprosperity. This is true
statement of some but not all of our Deme-
cratic claims to the popular confdence!"'--
T(tin GlZ .H. T..H III TlH sl-Hl aeon. --r.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Il II the woTkmerl should take calm luok at
the speeches and resolutions of the so called
labor political parties, they would see the
doctrine that it is wrong for any person to
save any part of his wages; that as soon as he
has lain by something for rainy day, or to
buy additional tools or machinery, or shop
for his work he has become capitalist,
whom laborers should exterminate. Thus all
this political labor literature tends to keep
the 6laboref thriftless and hopeless; tends to
the doctrine that to try to better his condition
by energy, skill, and thrift, SO that he may
increase his production, and become an en-
ployer, is a crime, and that mankind are diYi-
ded into two hostile classes, the capitalist and
laborer, by a line which the workman may
not hope to pass, and which, if he does pass,
he will go over to the laborers'' enemies.
- In pursuance of this crazy doctrine, this la
bor party literature makes enemies of all the
instrumentalities through which the savings of
labor are, laid up and made productive. Their
blind denunciation of banks includes the saw
ings banks, in which there is current line of
over 600, ,0Oo, 900 of deposits of the savings of
labor; for the business of these banks is eS-
sentially the same as of all banks, and the
great business of all banking is to keep the
savings of labor and the temporary balances
of merchants and of the moneyed men in the
circulation, instead of letting them be hoard
ed. Again, the government was compelled
to borrow money tosaye the nation from the
Democratic party secession. The current
line of small savings of wages, and of the
small sums left to widows and orphans, would
absorb the greater part. of these government
bonds, in denominations of $50, and thus the
interest would be semi-annually distributed to
the laborers. But these political labor parties,
treating the laborers as thriftless tranips, who
are enemies to all savings, declare hostility to
the bonds. And when their doctrine has
made the workman hopeless of rise, what
do they propose? Simply that the money of
his wages shall be continually depreciating in
value.-fCin. Gaz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
Mechanics Wages for Eighteen
Years aVad
Boston Journal. }

In the course of a recent lawsuit In
New Haven, Conn.,, some interesting
and important facts were disclosed
bearing upon wages in general, and
upon carpenters wages in particular,
during the last Is years. The suit was
brought by carpenter to recover the
balance due on an unpaid wages ac'
count extending from the year 1859
to the fall OF 1876. The agreement was
that his employer should pay for his
work at the prevailing prices, and, as
the payments were made piecemeal,
without any settlement during the
whole time, the account naturally be-
came long and confused one. 1t was
submitted to the consideration Of
committee of carpenters, who prepared
the following table OF carpenters
wages. which was put in evidence on
the tiial: . .s
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
The Funny Things We Do.

Have you ever reflected upon the
very many funny things we dc, for
which we can give no particular rea-
son? How is 1t that we do not give
five cheers, four cheers, two cheer, one
cheer? Why Is that we give three
cheers and no more? Who can tell?
Why is that the majority of people
use their right hand in preference to
their left, and cannot help smiling at
those who use't the latter?
Why is II that a man cannot see
bundle of tOothpicks without helping
himself when he does not need them
at all?
Why is 1t that small boy cannot let
the thin-waisted wasp fly In peace,
without furiously going for 1t with his
new straw hat; OF why Is 1t that the
small girl always insists upon Juggling
home kitten that has not even learn
ed how to open its eyes?
Why Is il that when any one asks u9
how many days there are in certain
month, we always say to ourselves:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November?
Why Is IL that We turn to the right
instead Of the left, which Is more pref
cIdOIc, II uuOBNCO hOOtu saw
many accidents On railroad and high
way? The driver always sits upon the
right of his vehicle; In turning to the
right he is farthest away from the wag-
on he passes, and unless he is an expert
cannot tell how close he comes to the
wheels of the man who goes by him,
whereas, II he turned to the left side
he could look straight down, see to the
of an inch how close he was
an obstacle, and thus
avoid 1t. The engineer runs upon the
right hand track, and sits upon the
right hand side Of his cab. The long,
narrow locomotive, with its sand tow
Or, belfry and smoke stack is in front Of
him, cutting off his outlook and impe-
ding his observation. He can view
only his own track, while the opposite
track, save at q distance, Is almost
wholly unseen by him. ION some
railroads the reverse is the custom.)
Custom, owing to causes we know
not of, has established these curious
and, from observation and
we utwittingly do thousands
Of things that sre, to say the least fun
ny, and that We cannot possibly ex-
plain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

JUDGE WEsT's speech at Hamilton
last Saturday bristled with good points.
Here is what b said of the greenbacks:
The green back Is the child of Repub-
lican patriotism. Born of rebellion
and Graded In conflict, II was the star
of hope and promise of redemption to
struggling liberty. Prosecuted in its
infancy by the Herods and high priests
of Democracy, who sought the young
child's life, it was jeered for illegitmacy
by the Pendletons; buffeted for vsga-
bondism by the Vallandighams; mock
ed with a crown of rags by the Thur
mans, and crucified by copperheads
and parricides on the cross of treason;
and now in its re-ascended estate and
glory of mat1red strength, the bond
men to whom 1t gave freedom, the
heroes to whom it gave victory, the
patriots TO whom 1t restored country,
have, sworn that its old arch-enemy
shall not cruelty it anew by substitut
ing the worships OF their spurious god;
but receiving from gratitude crown
Of silver and gold, 1t shall reign.
And here is Judge Vests eloquent
definition of Republicanism:
Republicanism, as 1 understand it,
seeks equality in the rights of man;
stability in the agencies and instrumen-
talities on which is pillsred success and
the prosperous immunity Of ind ustrial
and com mercial enterprise and
rest from unreasoning agitation
itncomp patible with confidence, coop
GRAFTON, and healthful repose. Believ'
ing that mans equality before the law
was his right, 1t was given; that equal
suffrage was his armor, it was beseOw'
ed; that constitutional and judicial
safeguards wer5 his bulwark, they
were guaranteed. Believing that
stability and uniformity in the values
of all forms of money, which Is the
iife'curtent In the arteries OF trade, are
essential to the enduring prosperity of
human pursuits, 1t has labored to bring
them to uniform and fixed standard.
Believing that existing financial legis'
latiOn will, il steadily adhered to and
faithfully enforced, secure the rewards
of labor through the confidence of cap
ital, 1t demands rest from further need
less aud hurtful agitation. Its policy
is not to destroy, but to build up; not
to distract, but to establish; not to
diminish the forces of enterprise, but
unite them all on basis OF coin.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
BELMONTCHRONICLE
ST, GAINESVILLE OHIO.
1 THURSDAY. SEPT. 3. 1873.


PATTERSON denies unequivocally the Wash
ington rdmor that be had been trying to es-
cape prosecution in South Carolina by offer
ing to resign his seat in the Senate. He also
denies that he left Washington TO avoid ar
rest. He has been TO Pennsylvania for his
health, which had been impaired by the i'm
portunities of Office -hr1 r1ters, for whom he
could do nothing, because of his unples SAINT
relations with the administration. He has no
hope of any Republican success whatever in
South Carolina this year, but is confident that
the Democrats will elect their State, iegisla-
tive and congressional tickets Patterson
talks like man to whom life is burden.
The only thing which makes bim at all cheer
full seems to be hope that the Democratic
party is speedily coming into power. ~
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

4 Trains leaving Columbus at ~ IN ana
z5 m, run daily.
Through Chicago Express leaves Columbus
daily except Sunday 81 40 p N, with sleeps
50 next morning. I'll
2 The. Pan Handle Router is the shortest
quickest and most comfortable Route TO all
point Is In Missouri, Arkansas, Texas. Kansas,
Colorado and the Western States and Territo>
ries. . tt - y Llt-.i'- D -
] This is the Route by which you make the
fewest changes of cars, obtain the Lowest rates
on Household Goods, Live Stock, &c, and 2Oo
pounds of Baggage Free, on Every Colonist
Any Information about time Of trsins, con-
nections, Lands In the West, price OF Single
Round Trip or Colonfst's Tickets, &c, cheer
fully furnished by calling NJ on or addressing
JOS. N. BELLVILLE, Ticket and Emigration
Agent, Wheeling, w Va, or w. L. OBRlEN,
General Passenger Agent, 2l9 North High St.
Columbus o. . ~ -.. : --- - l1r
Rates always as low as the lowest. Il.
ID W CALDWELL, w LOBRIEN,
= Genl Manager. Gen Pass & Tkt Agt,
Etis II COLUMBUS, OHIO. H%
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
What Kearney Costs.

Exchange. ~ --'
The Auditor of San Francisco has
furnished for the State Board of Equa-
lization a statement showing the as
sessable prosperity of the city and coun-
ty, and it is significant, as indicating
the falling off In values directly attri-
butabie to Kearneyism. The amount
of money Is 50, ,122, go, as against SILL
Ola, ,295 last year; personal property is
$45, ,063, go, against $52,1l6,9S5 last
year;rea estate shows decline of over
81 ,5UO, 200; the etotal value Of the fiscal
year is s244 ,476. 470, against ..S254 1867, :
06O. That is TO say, the effects of
KearReyism in San Francisco are rep
resented by decline in property
values and q withdrawal OF capital,
amounting to $10, ,390, sos in single
year. 'iHiaG r7i~H'l .grisa-s -i. r.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

There Is no reason to distrust the sc'
curacy of these figures, made up by
careful, competent men. Nor do we
see why the state OF things they repre-
sent should not be substantially repre-.
sentative Of the current rate of wages in
most of our New England cities and
large towns. Like them, New Haven
is large manufacturing place in pro-
portion to the population, and the pay
of the laboring elementisa q factor always
felt there to be of decided Importance.
The omission of certain years in the
absence of reliable statistics for the
same. One curious circumstance dis
tion of all laboring men. In 1861, the
War year, the average carpenters pay
was $1.75 per day. Immediately after
imitation began to tell upon the currency
and upon all articles of substance. so
that most of the latter, involving near
ly the whole cost OF a mechanics
living, was about double. And yet it
was not till March, 1854, that the daily
pay of the same mechanic rose more
than 25csnts above his daily pay in the
table we presume In due to the
in March, 1861. That is the inevitable
effect of cheapening currency-it in
fiates nearly everything else before it
does labor, thus compelling the labOrer
for years to pay toll on all he pur'
chases, while the capitalist Is thriving
on an easy system of marking his
goods. That state of things, although
It might have been mitigated, Originat'
ed In the overwhelming necessities of
q civil war; but what would be thought
of the sanity of a workingman who
should try to revive it now, when we
are so close upon the condition OF nor
NAL soundness again? tl -
As to the present figures OF the New
Haven table, they would seem to in
dicate that the working man is little
better off than he vas In 1859. His pay
Is a little higher, and the prices OF most
living articles are. about the same.
Taxes are somewhat higher. Probably
a greater difference In the cost OF sup
porting family-a mechanics or any.
bO,ly's else-is to be found rather In
the style of living than in the mere
cus Of household necessities. We have
all gone ahead in style In the last
twenty years, and it is hard to come
down 10 just reluirements.:B But in this,
too, the people have made decided
progress, and we shall yet see the
equilibrium restored. fta.a " -. r.''