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, 1879-05-25

Now that belief in the existence OF the Bad
Place and in Personal Devil is pretty much
j exploded, it Is possible that our ideas are to
! undergo modification in regard to the use of
language that has heretofore been considered
| impolite and profane. 4 large number of Der
sons-men and boys especially and some
ladies-are IL the habit of nterla riding their con-
versatton with that which anawers in the place
OF swearing; and "Bv George" or "By THIN
DER" or other emphatic by-words, are often
heard, even from the lips OF profess cdly
pious people. Not long ago 1t came to light in,
court trtal IN one OF the principal cities of
Minnesota that the girls in the boarding school
located In that town we're in the habit OF swear
ing "like our army IN flanders" and that they
didn't mince matters, either, by using any of
the milk-and-water epithets and adiccttvcs that
are merely plated with profanity, but took to it
as naturally as 30 many sailors, and used the
biggest and worst words and phrases in the
vocabulary. This was part Of the testimony
given the trial referred to by one of the girls,
but she naively and modest;y addcd-probaely |
With mischteyous twinkle In her mild blue. !
eyes III they were blue)-that the girls ssonly t
,suore so when they were all by themselves. !"
And DOW the moral sense OF the country has been !
shocked By the breaking out Of profanity in
one of the most sedate aud exemplary
members of the present Congress, be-
ing the offender. The other day, in
the debate on WARxER's Silver bill, which Mr..
CHITTENDEH cannot look upon in any other
light except as q most vicious and impolitic
measure, be used some very emphatic language,
and declared that any man who did as the bill
was TIA damned scoundrel,'' and that i
If it passed, it would force the United States
Government to appear In the role Of 81 a damned
'coundre." What is little curious also about
he matteris, that then one OF AIr. Cu11TRSDHK's
colleagues called the Speakers attention to the
language OF the gentleman
rom New York (strange as It may seem, swear
ng on the floor OF the Honse Of Representa-
ives is tout Of orderly. Mr.. CurTEspEs
eriouslT and emphatically denied using auY | !
'rofane language, but Insisted that be had
merely characterized the bill In such terms as I
Iou1d best convey to the House his idea OF its | q
liter badness and impracticabilitg. So We come Z
, 1879-05-25

The WARNER Silver bill, which has taxed
the capacity and time of the House for the
past two weeks, was debated the whole of
Friday night and reached vote Yesterday
morning. It was passed by III to 81, and
will now have to run the gauntlet of the
SENATE Whst fate it will meet with there
cannot BE- prophesed, but the chances arc
taat it viii be smothered in the mass of
unfla'sned- business :" which always re-
mains ct the close of the session.
, 1879-05-25

Ihe s'xheth anniversary of the birthday
Of Queen V1cToR1A was appron,iata1v nh,
eef'eo throughout the neighboring Dominion
Yesterday. The celebration at Montreal par
took OF IN international character, the Thir~
teenth regiment Of the New York militia BEING
q prominent factor. The Governor-General
ana his Royal wife took an active part in
The pageant. and paid particular attention to
their american visitors. The military dis
ttoy concluded with a sham battle in which
souch blank cartridge Was expended.
, 1879-05-25

the CHICAGO TE1EcSE has established erancd, tr,..
for the receipt OF subscriptions and zdrtrtiseues o.
follows: 40
NEW Y0i:K-Room - Tribune Building. r.1..
FApDIx, Manager.
PARIS, FEance-Na. 10 Tue dc Il grange Batere,
u. MAuLEE, Agent
LoNDOS, Ene.-Amertcan Exchange, 10 Strsno
uESKY F. Gnlta. Agent
WASHINGTON D. C.-13lo xtreet
, 1879-05-25
SUNDAY. MAY %. 1879.

It ls expected that tie Legislative bill will
60 to the. President tomorrow afternoon.
and the veto may be Sfpected the next day.
1t the veto could only be applied to Con
gress, the people Of this too-much-governed
country would rejoice, .
, 1879-05-25

PAIGE, the Boston commission merchant.
who undertook to sTindle his creditors out
Of 800, COO By afraudulent failure, Was YES
terday sentenced to two years. Imprisonment
with hard labor 4 little Of this kind of
ju6tics is needed in this latitude for the
benefit Of bursted bankers, and IS a g terri
bic Warming" 49, -~.,;'
, 1879-05-25

1t is reported that Speaker RANDALL is in
fere@ OF making the fight between Congress
and The President as long and as bitter as
possible. He does not seem to reflect that
the longer Congress remains. in ,session.the
more Democratic speseches tho ''Rfs Republicans
Will be able TO circulate as campaign docu-
ments
, 1879-05-25

back to the question with which nc started, viz,
Are we already arrived at that point IN our moral
progress that profanity has lost Its repulsive
and wicked aspects, 80 that members Of Con-
gress can apply to each other such opprobrtous
epfthets IS most decent newspapers seldom
print, and With which most fathers and mothers
do not care to have their children become
farniliar2 Mr.. CH1rrENDEN Is a refined, we'll
educated, high-toned gentleman, who would no
more think OF calling gentleman with whom
he disagreed in private conversation "a damned
scouudrel =" than he would be guilty OF any
other gross impropriet7, and there is little ex-
cuse for him in the heat OF debate that be should
50 far forget what vas due to the dignity OF the
occasion and to hts own se1f-resrect and the
force Of his example. It Is possible that we are
in transition period In this respect, and that,
like Mr.. Ca1rrENDES, who said he had looked
through two dictionaries to ind the proper ad-
jectlves to dtly characterize the WARNER bill,
and failed, we may all come to slang, vulgarftv,
aud profanity when our knowledge Of decent
language falls to express our disgust and
righteous Indignation. But ne hope not ret.
, 1879-05-25

The fences Ia Ohio need mendng all around.
Senator PENDLEroN has found it necessary TO
leave Washington all OF sudden to look after
his dairy firm. Calves to be weaned, probably.
, 1879-05-25

The MOORE Centennial celebration in New
York Ctr next Wednesday will have quite an
imposing programme. Addresses will be ,ade
by ChtefJustfce DALr and RICHARD O,Goax,x.
poem will be read By JoHH SAVAGE; and the
rest OF the exercises wtll be musical IN: char,o-
, 1879-05-25

Inc Ar&assas Gazette Dem.) says that the
Democ1ats OF that State do not agree with Mr.
lhDEs IN many Of his National policies. and
tna1 I'm order to support him they would have
TO go oack upon the platform they delibe.ateIv
adopted last year in their State Convention ;,
hlr: I11'DES has not yet opened bis "bar,1n IN
Arkansas; but, "hon he does, 1t will be found
easy enough to 90 back on that old platform
, 1879-05-25

Ihe rush for the per cent certificates at the
Fost-Ohce and sub-freasurY IN New York ia
greater than 1t Is in Chicago, and 1t REQUIRES
dozen police officers to preserve order. Man
and women fight. to get places IN the linz ~
march, and the1ei is confusion worse confonndea
ab3out the buildings. Thieves, ,pfcknock-ts
speculators, and conf1dence-men arc tninror,no,
their opportunities,
, 1879-05-25

LAFAYETTE CHAPTER No. 2 r. L. M.-Hau "a
Moa1oe e,tt-stased Convocatoa Monday evening, May
a toF ohtoess TIiiu1B and members cordially inyit.
cd 10 attend. BIZ order Of the +. K. '4'@'
T. y. TUCKER. Secretary:
, 1879-05-25

D. 4. EASTMAN LODGE, NO ess, A. F. "a. Nj
eEaa1 ons S5,n ~ Tuesday eyeanE sy
and Hooc5 Work Visitors welcome.
g. 4. DOUGLASS Sec1etafy,
, 1879-05-25

I
Marrying by telegraph has certainly 70
mantle flavor about 1t that q certain class Of
sensational young people will be charmed With;
but it Is easy to see how it might lead to enbar-
rassing and unsatisfactory results. Take, for
example, such case as TIE TR1BUHE's NIL
] Waukee correspondent sent on Friday last, where
Miss BuDDNaroN stood up before 8 Clergyman
in the telegraph office In that city and was united
in marriage with young man out West. Sup
| pose that the operator at the other end OF the
line had been resolved to play q practical Joke
| upon the young lady, with or without the con-
sent OF the bridegroom, and had reported him
present when he was not, or reported him as
saving ''yes" when the clergyman propounded
the usual questions when he really said s'no,"
how would the young girl really know
whether she was lawfully married or
not2 She did not hear him say he would take
her for better or worsei he did not place the
ring upon her finger; be did not raise her veil
and kiss her after the ceremony; neither did her
'ssters, her cousins, and her aunts," nor any
Of the witnesses. The telegraph, unlike Mr..
Ep1soH'a talking machine, cannot be appealed
to hereafter as q witness in the case, aud proof
produced from the instrument. Other con-
tfngencies might arise to mar the happiness OF
the bride and render the alleged marriage cere-
mony delusfon and 8 snare Suppose the
bridegroom should bribe the operator at the
other end Of the line to 60 on with the proceed
ing at certain hour in his 1.-THE bridegroom's)
absence, and, after being run down and caught
by the bride ard her friends, and the obligation
of husband being insisted upon, be should be
able to prove an albi on the day and date OF his
alleged wedding. No! It may be all right in |
Miss BUDDrNaToH's case, but the practices is !
certainly dangerous one to botn parties, and |
cannot be commended. Besides, the custom |
may havu legal a., well as moral aspects that
might be troublesome to encounter. We cer-
tainly cannot recommend the practice, and hope
It will never become universal. There is kind t
of habeas-corpus reality about the old-fashioned
method Of getting married that we are partial
to, If it is less romantic and does not smack SO t
loudly OF the progressive spirit OF this fast and
fconoclastic age.
, 1879-05-25
SUNDAY REVERIES.
z :
Ferna ndo Wood IN going to the bad-Carlsbad.
Nothing is mere natural than for one-hosrq
actress to take to playing IG-kppu.
Since Schae!er's match with 91osson
4 change has been wrought At once:
Big wa1ks have gone ont OF fashion,
And folk 70 In for big runa

The New York IritHnes bard, writing ahout
Blaine, rhymes ''goose" with ''mitrailleuse.~
Whether he pronounces one ''geuze" or the othea
4mitrailloose, We do not venture to decide.
, 1879-05-25

ST: HERSARp C0MMAyDEgT, NO. IS, 4. t.
EpGsiSl concave Wcdnesday evening. May ~ at 1850
1re cour1consly 1nS1ted. ~ order Of the E. c.
J. Q. DICkERSUN, Recorder
, 1879-05-25

CoRETHIAN CHAPTER 10. g., r, l.. NJ
cnsl tatca cG2cessaden Monday srcninE May "a u
p3nons sze cordially invited. BIZ order OF the NJ l.
H. r. J. Q. DICKERSGS, Secretary.
, 1879-05-25

4'What shall do to be saved!' asked an anxious
inquirer yesterday Of practical clergyman.
''Well, replied the Clergyman. $50 neatly as l
can make cut, you'd better murder rome ono
and get hanged.'' -
, 1879-05-25

VAN RENSSELAER, GRAND LODGE 0F pEpFpc
ilnA VIZ confer Fourteenth Grade OF the 4 4 4
oeoatish t.tc On Ihr:sday evening ne1t By order OF
AMOS PErT1RONE, 7. r. g. n
, 1879-05-25

All members Of the First Cavalry, J. n O. orderAd
10 artcnd special meeting Tuesday evening TsQ -
at $50 O'clock. ny order OF ' 80
LIEUT.. HOPPS, Commander OF the Co1p,uy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
The New Missouri Senator.

The old rebel spirit has triumphed in
Missouri and George G. Vest, ex-senator
of the jeff Davis Senate, wins the toga.
He will make a fit colleague of Cockrell.
The term of Vest will begin next March
and end in 1885 The chief reason why
the democrats chose him over the other
candidates, one of whom fought on the
side of the Union, was his strength and
popularity with the confederate element
lie is lawyer of some note. having been
solicitor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
for several years. While Senator in the
Confederate Senate he received good
cowhiding from the wife of Henry A. Pol
lard for an offensive remark he made
about her. On the financial question Vest
is thoroughly rotten. He wants a thou
sand million dollars Of greenback issues,
and the immediate abolition of the nation
al banks. He also goes in for all the
gigantic improvements which have been
mapped out for the South and Southwest.
The solid South and rebel claims can
count on him every time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
The Democracy and the South.

Upon this subject the Tribune very
forcibly remarked short time since :
1.-The solid Southern section of the demo-
cratic party can be credited with the
possession of several well-defncd princi-
piles. OF these the best established seem
to be that this is awhile man Is government
and its two corollaries that every black
man who denies it deserves to have the
heresy shot out Of him, and that white
mans government exists mainly to pay
the claims of Southern white men. On
what is comprehensively known as the
money question, the Solid South stands
firm against solid money and in favor of
more irredeemable promises to pay, and
in general the Solid South advocates any
small swindle which can be perpetrated
upon the national creditors in peculiarly
offensive way, so as to soil the national
credit as much as possible.
But what distinctive principles are left
TO the Northern democracy since the last
quaver Of the fraud yell died away in a
thin diminuendop Considerable portions
of the party have been defiantly facing
each other on opposite sides of every ques-
ton growing out of the condition of the
finances and the currency, and all the rest
have been trying to get on both sides of
the same questions. Upon no single point
save one are all the jostling factions here
in full and sympathetic accord, and that
is in their subserviency to the Solid South.
1t follows that about all there is of the
democratic party as an organized and az
gressive force is in the South. Some par.
ties would have learned something in the
twenty years of history which this country
has been making since 80. But the
democracy, especially the ruling end OF
it, is about as grasping. as treacherou,
and as insolent as it was before the war. =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
A Debate Prevented on the South
ern Claims Question.

A Washington special in the Boston Jour
nal of Friday morning, says:
The debate in the House. which was so
much feared to-day by the Democratic lead
ers, was averted by successful parliamentary
tactics and by a somewhat strained ruling on
the part Of the Speaker. who did not wish to
hazard the chances Of his own reelection by
allowing factions in his own party to be ar
rayed against each other. The democrats
followed their old policy Of concealing that
which they could not cure. Immediately the
House met il WAS apparent that the hot-blood-
ed Southern men were not TO be put down by
counsel or repression. Gen. Bragg, the
Northern democrat and Union soldier. was
no. the man to recedc from the position he
rs taken with deiiberation, and was prenar-
ed to go even greater lengths than yesterday
I'm his denunciation of Southern claims.
The Southern men ON their part. represent
ed by Mills, Chalmers and Hooker were very
ansry, and Mills, who would have had
the floor had the debate gone on, came dress
ed in his party suit prepared for debate OF
the old school. II was known that he would
arrsiga the Northern doughfacc democracy
and charge them with having precipitatcd iii,
war and with having abandoned their South
ern brethren after misleading them.
As consequence, recourse was had to par
lianentary tactics and sort Of tilibusterinp
and the result was, for the present the oppor
tunity which the Southernsrs desired ha,
passed. 1t will probably come again, how
ever, upon the next Southern claim, bu,
there clnnot be another hour for business Nh
I'll this stumbling block of threatened dem
Ocfatic schism is removed. ia5tH4f
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
Political.

Several democratic papers in South Caro-
lima favor the nomination of Senator Thomas
F. Bayard, of Delaware, for President.
There is rumor that Senator David Davis
of Illinois, wearying of being the only MEM
Der of the third party in the Senate, will join
the republicans.
Reputation is rampant in the Tennessee
Legislature, the popular branch having just
tabled resolution looking TO the payment of
fifty cents on the dollar, by a vote of 81 to
-.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that the
talk about running Secretary Sherman for
Governor of Ohio sis trash" He is engaged
in more important business than running for
Governor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
TONTINE PLAN,

or upon the principle of accommodating profits for def
mite periods, which first introduced by this Socie
ty, and has been recommended and endorsed BY emf.
nent experts In Life Insurance, and by leading bust
ness men. fortyF -Four per cent has been earned and
accumulated on the premiums paid ON its Tontne Life
Policies, and forty per cent. ON it, Tontne Endow-
ment Policies, issued within the last five years.
The Directors of the Equitable Life Assurance So
eiey represent exclusively the interests of the Policy
holders. and in presenting the Society 10 notice. they
feel that il has strong claims upon public confdenc-
been use of the strict and conservative principles by
which iS various departments governed. In the
asscts and In the admin .traton of the Society, per
feet Wip /, given for the future, which Is Of grca,
Importance to those depending upon their insurance
policies for the Ultimate support OF their families
No Life Insurance Company has such large annual
transactic Us rs the Equitable; none is more prompt
and just in IFS dealing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
General News.

General sherman proposes to soon make a
tour of investigation through the South.
DIR. Lemoyne's cremation furnace in Penn
slyvania is paying poorly that there is talk
Of turning it into a popcorn factory.
| The Baldwin Locomotive Works have an
order for several locomotives of the heaviest
draft from a railway in Norway, which is the
first ever received in the United States from
either Sweden or Norway.
John +. Arnold of Pittsfeld, the candidate
for Lieutenant Governor on the lately de-
ceased Butler ticket who was arrested the
other day. charged with obtaining money un-
der false pretences, was discharged on
Wednesday, the prosecution failing to estab-
lish a case against him.
Princess Thyra's wedding dress had train
of white velvet five yards long. Her mother
the Queen, wore white silk dress with
train and the crown diamonds, and the Crown
Princess was attred in white silk gown
with train of light blue velvet, richly en-
broidered with diamonds.
4 woman aged thirty-six has just died near
Oglethrop, Ga, who for twenty years, for
some unknown cause, had not used her tongue
till just before she died, when she sent for
some friends and dictated her will in a man
ner that proved her sound in mind and fluent
in language. She spoke of many things that
had occurred during her apparent dumbness,
but gave no reason for her strange conduct.
Diphtheria is often regarded as the most ia
tai of all the diseases of children. But that
clever medical skill can battle even this terri
bic disease is proved by the experience in the
Princess Mays Home at Addlestone, Eng
land. OF the three hundred inmates of these
homes, nearly one-sixth were recently down
with the disease, which presented all the nor
NAL features. Yet the physician who attend
ed the cases did not lose single one. This
circumstance gives hope that careful treat
mcnt and nursing will yet abolish this great
danger of the household, or at least reduce it
so that it will no longer cause the alarm that
it once did
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

The disreputable scenes at the hanging of
Benjamin Hunter have caused the introduce
ton of a bill in the New Jersey Legislature
to prevent their recurrence. 1t limits the
number of persons to be present at execu-
tons. There are to be twelve citizens liable
to Grand Jury duty, of whom two shall be
physicians. These are to view and report to
the Court the circumstances of the hanging
and the names of all persons present. The
Sheriff is empowered to employ only twelve
deputies. The sufferer may have three per-
sons present and two clergymen. This is re-
ducing the privacy of executions, if privacy
be desirable, to minimum. The plan will
secure decent behavior and desirable order
and quiet. There can be little or no solem-
nifty with mob Of sightseeing holiday max
ers and if private hangings are for any good
reason desirable, they should be as private as
possible. Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25
COMMITTEE HEARING.

The Committee on Temperance have assigned We'd
nesday evening, Jan. 29th, at O'Clock for hearings
on the following subjects Petition of Al Warehouse
and others of Lewiston, TO prevent waste of liquor
seized according to law, and other petitions for same
purpose also order of Mr.. Fox Of Portland, in rea
lion 10 native wines, cider and malt liquors being de
clared not Intoxicating; also in regard to repeating
law In relation TO State Liquor Agencies.
HIRAM ID. CooMBs, ,b.ir,aon
ABIAL NJ JoSEs, 'hairmen'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-25

The editor of the Bangor Commercial, in
remarking on suggestion of ours that the
class Of people popularity called the working
classes, were really seldom or never better
off than now, asks what we think of ship
building and sailing in Washington county.
We can tell him at once what we think of il.
We think that the immense quantities of po-
tatoes, wheat, oats and other grain, the hum
dreds of acres af land cleared and cultivated,
the thousands of rods of good fence built, the
hundreds of families who will live in comfort
from the products of the field, which they
would not have done from the daily wages OF
those who would have forsaken their field
for the ship-yards, had that branch of business
been good, has been the direct result of tn,
dearth in work in that line. The editor d
the Commercial will have to be twice as elo-
quent rs he is or can be before he makes
many people believe that they are any NOR,
unhappy than they were ten years ago. The
county of Washington, has started on n
career in the farming line, which never would
have been the case had the people who own
land and live in the vicinity of mills and ship
yards, been able to procure such wages a,
would tempt them from their land.-Maehias
Republican.