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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
NEW YORK.
RUNS Work.

New YORK, January "a Harry Meddon
sailor on the British ship Onobs, was this
morning shot and killed by John Smith, the
keeper of a Oliver street saloon, during a
drunken quarrel with Meddon and several
other sailors
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MASSACHUSETTS,.
Fatal Accident.

WORCESTER, January "a. Adelard PERI
ault, eighteen years old, was caught under
the chin by hook on derrick rope, and
killed, at the Island at the sewer, this morn
ipU
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

Ed. Geo. Weeks will preach in the Y. NJ
G. A. rooms, all day Sunday, the 10Th.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

sS-Nice Providence River Oysters 40 cts, Virginia
Oysters 80 cts. per qt. at Central Market
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

Lord Lorne and wife visited Table Rock
the Whirlpool, and the American side of the
Niagara Falls again yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

Elder Abbott will preach in the Christian
church, Northern avenue; services begin at
"a =. NJ, Sunday.
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Serious Accident.

FALL RIVER, January "a. Annie McNea
dofier in the Mechanics Mill, had her ha
caught on shaft and was SO severely inju
ed before the machinery was stopped that 81
will probably die.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

Personal.

ToRoNTo, January "a. Earl Duffern yes
terday had the degree of LII. ID. conferred OF
him at Trinity College, Dublin.
Board of Trade.
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BiouraphicaI Sketches.

Copies Of the Biographical Pamphlet
may be had at this Office, or Of the car
rier at the State House. Price Is Cents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

The Caroline Lnight.

PORTSMOUTH, January -. Schooner Car
oine Knight of Rockland, recentlp on the
rocks of Rye Beach, was taken into tow Fri,
day forenoon, by steamer Hercules, for that
hour
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
Board Of Trade.


OTTAWA, January "a. Hon. James Skeat
is elected unanimously president of the boart
of trade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

The Postmaster of Augusta, the other day
received money order from western city
the heading of which was not made out in the
which accompanied it is indeed rich;
Please the Sigh, tanglc ON the head of the
enclosed advice. We have just had little shooting
scrape in the Office, and are somewhat mixed Moth.
ing very serious
The clerks in that office, where shooting
scrapes" are reported as not very serious, can
not lack for innocent amusement
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
FORTY-TIFTH CONGRESS.
Second Session.
WASHINGTON, January "a.
Senate.

The Vice President laid before the Senate
the memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan b. Anthony and other officerr of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association,
praying the passage of joint resolution pro-
posing an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States to prevent the States from
DISTINGUISHING persons on account of sex.
Referred to the committee on elections.
Mr.. Salisbury called up resolution call
ing upon the secretary of the treasury for in
formation in regard to commission paid bank
ers and others for negotiating the sale of
bonds.
Mr.. Morrill, submitted an amendment pro-
viding that information heretofore communi-
Gated to the other house of congress shall not
be repealed, but references TO be taken where
the same is to be found to be made, and the
names of subscribers to the popular loans
since June, 1877, to whom commissions have
been paid may be omitted.
The amendment was accepted by Mr..
Salisbury, and the resolution agreed to as
amended.
Mr. Ferry called up bill to establish post
routes, and for other purposes.
Mr. Sherman inquired if this was the bill
containing the Brazilian steamship subsidy.
Mr. Ferry replied in the affirmative, but
said that the object in calling it up now was
to see why the two houses could not agree on
the bill by striking out the subsidy and other
Objectionable features.
Mr.. Herman said the bill not only contain
ed a subsidy clause, but also an amendment
to revive the ranking privilege, both of
which should be considered as separate meas
ures.
Pending discussion the morning hour ex-
pred and on motion of Mr.. Ferry to con-
time consideration, it was agreed to, yeas 30
nays %.
Mr. Voorhees, introduced bill to carry out
the stipulations of certain treaties.
Referred to the committee on territories
Also to permit T.. G. Boudinot to sue in
court of claims.
Referred.
Mr.. Burnside submitted various anne nd
ments to the bill to reorganize the army.
Ordered printed
Also introduced a bill to make rules for the
government and regulation of the land forces
of the United States.
Referred to the military comm ittee
Mr.. Edmunds moved to take up the resolu-
ton recently submitted by him, declaring the
validity of the 18th, Nth and 18th amend
ments to the constitution.
A motion to adjourn was rejected by par
ty vote.
Mr.. Eaton moved for an executive session.
Rejected.
Several diatory motions followed, among
them one to take up the bill for the relief of
Warren Mitchell, but it was rejected.
Mr.. Edmunds renewed his motion to take
up his resolution.
Mr.. whyte moved to adjourn.
Agreed to, yeas 20 nays 20.
Adjourned to Monday
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House.

Inc proposition to nave the sugar bill made
a special order for Wednesday next, was OBJ
jected to by Mr.. Banks.
The House concurred in the Senate amend
ments to the bill appropriating 100000 for
transportation Of coin and bullion, and $40
900 for the miscellaneous expenses of the
House.
Mr.. Fuller submitted resolution directing
the ways and means committee TO consider
the feasibility of enacting a law to equalize
the internal revenue law among all of the
States.
Adopted.
Mr.. Robinion of Ind, from committee on
war claims, reported bill declaring the in
tent of the act to indemnify the States for ex-
penses incurred by them in defence of the
Union.
At o'clock the House went into commit
tee of the whole on the private calendar.
Almost all the war claim bills were object
ed to by Mr.. Bragg.
The committee rose and IL private bills re-
ported by it passed the House.
Mr.. Banning presented a substitute for the
army organization bill.
Ordered printed.
The House then took recess.
EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. Butler, from the judiciary committee,
reported the Senate bill to create an addi-
tional Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
for the District of Columbia
On point of order by Mr.. Eden, the bill
was referred to the committee of the whole.
Mr.. Butler moved to go into committee of
the whole.
Rejected.
Mr.. Knott reported bill authorizing the
sale of the Harrodsburg Springs, properly be-
longing to the Soldiers Home.
Passed.
Mr.. Lynde reported back the Senate bill to
amend section 549S of the revised statutes, BY
providing a penalty for embezzlement by
officers of the internal revenue service.
Passed.
Also the Senate bill making the 22d of Ju-
ly n public holiday in the District of Column
bia.
Passed.
Also the bill relating to the division of the
State of Alabama into judicial districts.
Amendments were suggested by Hewitt and
Herbert, and on their motion the bill was re-
committed.
Also the Senate bill to extend jurisdiction
to to the District and Circuit Courts in the
Southern District of Florida.
Passed.
Mr.. Frye reported back the senate bill for
t"hihs testAnohy ~ uc ustu COHKTcss
in cases of private claims against the United
States.
The bill was passed.
Mr.. Culbertson reported senate bill annul-
ling the act of assembly of New Mexico in
cooperating the Society of Jesuit Fathers OF
New Mexico.
The bill passed.
Also reported bill for better organization
of the district courts in Louisiana
The bill was passed.
Adjourned.
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Marine News.

Schooner Grace Davis Captain Davis of
Portland, arrived at Hampton Roads Wednes-
day. She has had succession of gales from
the 9th of December. She received great
damage to spars and sails. She has been
twice supplied with provisions
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Difn.

In China. Jan. -, Jane, wife Of Farwell Webb,
aged n years.
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Bow Identified.
PENNSYLVANIA.
ExplOsiOn..Several Killed.

MILTON, January ~. G. Browns large
large building was fired by explosion from an
unknown cause, which killed several persons,
Loss, $4,000.
The Commerce Bill.
HARRIsBrRG, January "a. The Assembly
has adopted a resolution requesting the Penn
sylvania Senators to support the inter-S State
commerce bill passed by the National House
of Representatives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

FITcHBURG, January "a. VIM. 0. Brown
aged A., drowned himself in well last nigh,
Insane
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27

Mr.. Tilden testified before the
Potter subcommittee that he never
saw or heard of or suspected the ex-
Istence of the cipher dispatches un-
til their publication; that no negotia-
tions for the vote of Florida or South
Carolina were undertaken with his
authority, sanction or knowledge !;
that the first he heard of the South
Carolina transaction was Mr.. Coop
er's communication to him of Pei
toms despatch from Baltimore asking
for $50, 900 or $50, 900, and that he
then immediately ordered that pro-
ceeding stopped and Pelton home.
He knew nothing of the profit of
Florida's vote till the whole matter
was long past, when Mr.. Marble
mentioned as a bygone affair that
there had been such a prefer and that
it had been declined. 81 believe. !"
he said, 81 declare, before God and
my country it is my entire beliefth
the vote and the certificates OF South
Carolina, of Florida and of Louisiana
were bought; that the Presidency
was bought. Pelton's act was an
inchoate offense, but on the other
side the act which was done was o
completed and consummated fraud,
and the DoSsesSion of the Pre- sidency
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27

The salutatiORS of the Chinese,
like everything else pertaining to
this queer people, are peculiar. The
salution of two Cinnamon Of the bet
ter class when they meet consists in
each claspfng his own hands, instead
of each others, and bowlng very
profoundly, ALMOST to the ground,
several times. A question more
common than sHow do you do?" is,
.'Haye you eaten rice?' Itis taken
for granted that If you have eaten
rice you are we'll. Etiquette also re-
uuires that in conversation each shall
compliment the other and everything
belonging to him in the most laud-
atory style, and depreciate himself,
and all pertaining to him. to the low
est point. The following is no ex-
aggeration, though not the precise
words:
"What is your honorable name? %
''My insignificant aRpellation. is
Wong"
"Where is your magnificent pal
ace:'
"My contemplate hut is on Du-
pont street"
.'How many are your illustrious
children"
ssMy vile, worthless brats are five.'
'sHow is the health of your dis
tinguished spouse ;"
ssMy mean, good-for-nothing old
hen is WELL"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
COUNCIL.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Cnurch Directory.

Services in the Presbyterian Church
every Sabbath at IL o'clock. a. NJ, and II
O'Clock, Il. NJ. Prayer meeting anC
short lecture Wednesday evening at
o'clock.
Sabbath School-Judge Maclarlane, Su
perintendent. A bible class conducted BY
the pastor, Rev. John s. Grasty, ID. ID.
Services in the M. Z. Church, south
every sunday at 1890 A. NJ. and 7.30 P. NJ.
by Rev p. FL. Vandeventer, Pastor
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening aI
73O. Sunday school at 9 A. NJ. j. Nj
Marmaduke, Superintendent.
Services at Baptist Church every Sun.
day morning and evening. Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday evening, Rev. j. g.
Maple, Pastor. Sunday school ut A. n
James Carroll, Superintendent.
Services at the Christian Church every
Lords day at 1890 A. N. and 7.30 p. M,
by Elder John A. Brooks. Prayer meet
ng Wednesday evening at Z. Sunday
school at 8. 30 A. NJ. b. l.. Locke, Sup't.
0. S. Baptist Church. Pastor, Elder j.
Z. Lee, Services every 4th Saturday in
each month, and Sunday following, at
at half-past ten o'clock, A. II. All al g
cordially invited.
Services ut St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
on second and fourth Sundays at L A. M
and $50 p. m. Rev. T. A. Sharp, Pastor.
Sunday School at 2 P, NJ. N. Lakeland,
Supt.
Services at Methodist Episcopal Church
every Sunday morning and evening. Rev.
Fl. B. Seeley, Pastor. Prayer meeting
every Thursday. evening. Sabbath School
at o'clock A. NJ, j. Wright, Superin-
tendent. Teachers meeting every Thurs
day evening.
Services at the Catholic Church on the
first and third Sundays in each month.
Rev. q. f. O'Leary, Pastor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
Societies.

y. c. T. U. meets at the Opera House
every Monday night at 7.30. John A
Brooks, Pres't; James Carroll Sec'y.
A. o. u. w. meets every Tuesday eve
hing 1t 7.30. John A. Brooks, P. NJ. w.
): CoatswOrth, Secretary; Y. b. Cake, w
Nj j. A. Spence, X.
Father Matthew K. G. T. A. s. B. Soei.
ETY. meets on the third Sunday Ia each
month.
Acting Grand Branch No. Q. e B, A..
meets on tie frat Sunday In each month.
Crusade Commandery-S. NJ. Edwards,
Eminent Commander; meets the third
Tuesday evening OF each month, at 7.30
o'clock.
Mexico Lodge No. 26 A. f. and A. NJ,
meets on the tirst Tuesday in each mont
al P. M, and also OIL the first Fridav in
each month at r. M. Jas. Carroll, w. M.
Mexico Chapter No. 27. Royal Arch,
meets on the second Friday in each
month. >. M. Edwards, q. Z.
, Hebron Lodge No. 254, A. F. and A.
M. Regular communications on the first
pnohday in each month, at Pm. j. NJ.
y 1. y. 0. F.-Mexfcan Lodge No. 90,
meets meets every Wednesday evening at their
isch al. IN n M. Morris building. r. Schar-
-. mamre Encampment No. 81. m eets on
no second and fourth Fridays in each
on'n. Louis Phillips. @. p.
=, A,suddTaiaueoansy Aud Medical Society meets
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
TIMES OF HOLDING COURTS.

TIMES OF HOLDING COURTS.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Regular Terms-Fourth Monday in
January, first Monday in June, and
second Monday in October.
PROBATE COURT.
Regular Terms-Seconl Monday in
March, May, July, September, No
vember and January.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms irst Monday in
May, August, November and Feb
ruary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27

Yes, sswhiskey is mans greatest
enemy" and the more he. puts his
enemy down, the sooner he win get
thrown himself. Whisky is an ene-
my that may be put down in twenty
minutes, but he always comes up smil-
ing in the last heat andknockshIsan-
tagonist s'off his pins ITO use aclas-
sic phrase. ~,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27

From the n. Y. Sun.


In a country like ours the press is
the great conservative power, the
bulwark of democratic institutions,
the final defence of liberty and jus
tice. Our forefathers understood
this, and the Constitution provides
that Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of the press.
This provision is even more impor-
tant now than it was then; for with
the progress of Capitalization in gov
ernment, with the ideas of personal
rule which have come to be enter
tanned in so many quarters among us,
and with the alarming development
of corruption and fraud in the high
est places of administration, the right
of the press to speak loudly and with
out hesitation, to brand the criminal
executive officer, and to denonuce
every conspiracy against self-govern-
ment, has now become not merely
wholesome and precious, but abso-
lutely Indispensable, M4e only sure
corner stone of the Constitution and
of the republic.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
CORRESPONDENCE.
EAST WORCESTER, n. Y.l
Feb. 18th, 1879,

EDITOR LEDGER: We are having
good, snug winter weather, the ther-
mometer vibrating below zero, with
plenty of snow to make it interesting.
Hard times is the almost universal
cry. 1 thought, before I left Mexi-
CO, that it was hard times with US,
but the people here are worse off, es-
pecially the farming and laboring
part of the community, than we are.
1 will quote from speech made in
the State Senate by Hon. Samuel 5.
Edick, member from this district, on
a piii reduce the rate OF interest
lie says tnat a.. least 80 per cent.
of all the lands OF this State are un-
der mortgage, bearing sevon, .per
cent. interest; that so per cent. OF
all the business in the commercial
centres is done or borrowed capital,
and the farmer pays so per cent.
more taxes in proportion to the true
valuation than does the capitalist"
Failures are of every day occurrence
here. Very many that were a few years
ago well eff, are now destitute and
depending on their daily labor for
bread and they cannot get much work
at any price. The merchants are
complaining that goods they sold to
the farmers last season, expecting to
get pay when the crops were sold are
generally unpaied for and the very
low price of produce has put them
behind. So they cannot pay this
year at least, and no better prospects
ahead. A general panic is greatly
feared this spring. If such shoulq
be the case, not one man in twenty
could meet the demands Of his credE-
tors. A bill reducing the rate of in
terest is meeting with great favor,
even among capitalists, for they be-
gin to see that they will have to make
some concession or do worse. There
are thousands here that would like to
60 west, but they are involved to
such an extent that they can't get out
with enough to get there with. Real
estate cannot be sold here at any
price, unless for debt, then the credi-
tor is the buyer. A person in pass
ing through many of our towns and
villages would think from the appear
ance that all was peace and plenty,
but investigation will develop the
fact that generally where there is
bay window in front,a mortgage COW
ers the roof. In my next l will try
and give my views as to the cause OF
the excessive hard times here.
| G. H. H.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
Cities In trouble have various

Cities In trouble have various modes
of relief. The overburbened tax
payers of Jersey City appear inclined
to adopt the heroic remedy of Mem
phis, and rush into anarchy. A pro-
position that city shall forthwith
disband it's police and fire depart
ments is sufficiently radical, but five
minutes Afterwards calls had to. be,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27

A London physician says that
smoking cigars causes various disor-
ders of the circulation and digestion,
palpitation of the heart, a taste for
strong drink, bleeding of the nose,
and liberation of the mucous menu
brane of the mouth. This is bad
enough, but if the English doctor had
examined little more closely into
the effect the habit of smoking has
upon the constitution, he would have
discovered that it also leads to bank
defalcations, ossifcation of the heart,
a disposition to run for Congress,
body-snatching, hay fever, highway
robbery, strabismus, bunions and
croquet.
! Z -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
EVERY CIGAR TO BE STAMPED.
What World Reporter Heard Makers,
Smokers and Revenue Officers say Of the
Project.

The renewed agitation in Congress
of the old project to atfix a revenue
stamp to every cigar has excited both
| the manufactures and the smokers of
Sir Walter Raieigh's magical weed.
A World reporter took Sunday stroll
both on the east and west sides of
the town-among the twisters, pack
ers, filters, rollers and leaf coverers
OF cigars, and as we'll among the deli
cate white ashes as the blacker ashes
and bluer smoke of extravagant and
economical consumers. He found
but one opinion prevalent, and that
was upon the absurdity of the propo-
sition.
SIT is very we'll SAID an Essex
street hller-and 10 whom the situa-
tion of Key West was better known
than Havana to at1ix stamp to a
bottle of eye-water or pretty box Of
matches, but each cigar-oh, no."
"Where shall 1 put it?" inquired
another, sat the lighted end? No,
for then it would burn off,
The reported suggested ut the
smoking end.
mo, for then the consumer would
taste paste, gum or dye"
SIT would seriously injure the fla.
vor anyway" said a smoker; "no
matter where the stamp was put for
the paper or coloring would be ab-
sopbed." asf #ss
"Fapcy one of Sherman's revenue
spies Walking through the street or
into clubs and hotels and peering into
every smokers mouth to see If his
cigar was stamped"
"And arresting the smoker even
if the stamp had been ON but was
burned off,"
"In sanitary point of view," said
. medical by-stander, ''the stamp
might be good if affixed at the point
of the stump where the reservoir of
nicotine began. Thus it would be
lawful ito snaQke of the end beyond
the stamp, but Rot of the cigar under
or below the stamp"
.'Dis ish dc dird time dey dry dish
scheyme, but I guessh it will end i'm
schmoke as before" said q Teuton
who cared little about the subject be-
cause he was welded to his pipe.
A revenue officer was of the opia-
ion that the project would pass
through Congress even at this short
session. People might laugh at it.
but as things now were, with stamps
required only upon cigar-boxes, and
with which gross cheatery of the reve-
nue. was had, the receipts from cigar
tax, domestic and foreign, were only
half what they ought to be. "Be-
Sides" he added, ''it would be for
the security of the smoker to have an
official stamp upon every cigar as a
guarantee that it had been handled
by the proper officer and appraised
as to quality by an expert"
At which group laughed heartily;
and pale-faeed young lawyer, just
learning to smoke, observed that
s'revenue officers did not come into
court with very clean hands
The proposed stamp will be like
the movable paper ring that now
serves as a trade mark for many man.
utacturers, and it will represent only
q fraction of a mill. ~.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
-BY
R.M. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
AT $3.50 A YEA r
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
"OFFICE-NOrth Side of the Public Square over
Callaway's Grocery Store
STATE DIRECTORY.
h RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS

= hhAh1soAA WIN h"4OtO4ONCN
James Harding, of Cole.
j. 5. Marmaduke. of St. Louis.
John Walker, of Howard.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
REsIDENT OFFICES.
T. r. II. Smith. M. D., superinten-
dent and physician. .. ..
III. X. Hinde. NJ. d., first assistant
physician.
Il. A. Howard, NJ. D., second as
sistant physician.
G. o. Atkinson, steward.
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
VIM. ID. Kerr, a. NJ, superinten-
dent.
James X. Shelley, Jr., steward.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27

Represents the following old and re
liable Companies-FIRE AND LIFE,
Liverpool, London & Globe, Eng.
Ktna, of Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, of Hartford, Conn.
| Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn.
Franklin, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Underwriters, of New York.
German-American, Of New York.
Phoenix, of New York.
Niagara, of New York.
American Central, of SC. Louis.
Life Association Of America, st.
Louis.
Mutual Life insurance Company of
New York.
The above line OF Companies is the mos /
reliable known.