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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25
General News.

IL had no time to stuff the chicken" apol-
ogzed landlady to her boarders. ''Nevcr
mind, madam, it's tough enough as it is" re-
piled one of them.
The wild potato bug, in horny armor cased.
is now from of the the fields by thrifty farm
ers chased. The frisky lightning bug, his
lantern now hangs out, and flies of every
kind begin to sport about.-.S. Aibaas Mes
senger.
A dreadfully big sea serpent is sporting in
the water near Massassauga Point. 1t is
about as big as a stovepipe and wears green
striped stockings and cooked hat. Its diet
is roasted T rails on toast, and it sleeps in the
cradle of the deep.-Erie Heroid.
Weston completed his remarkable task in
London at IL o'clock Saturday night. COM
peting $50 miles and having five minutes to
spare, thus winning five hundred guineas
from Lord Ashley, the champion belt and the
reputation of having walked and run more
miles in the same space of time than any
other man living.
A disgraceful affair occurred in Chicago on
Sunday. 1t seems that German society
went on picnic excursion to the suburbs,
and were greatly annoyed by a crowd of
roughs. Instead of calling for the police,
they sent for party of sharpshooters friends
of the picknickers,) who bayoneted and shot
several of the crowd, wounding some of them
severely. The police then came down on the
sharpshooters and gathered them into the
Station House, where they are held on the
charge of murder.
A rich widow, lacking only two years of
half century and dressing her hair six times
a day, in Elizabethtown, Ky, fell in love
with youth of nineteen who had been work
ing on her farm. Her two step-sons ordered
him to leave the town, and threatened to use
a shotgun if he should ever attempt to re-
turn. The widow took the lad to town, pur-
chased him new suit of clothes and charged
him to get license. The young man did as
he was told, and when they were married she
carried him home and asked the step-sons
what they meant to do about it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

Exists, or if the hair is gray, dry or harsh, the
natural youthful color can be restored by us
ing London Hair Color Restorer," the most
delightful article ever introduced to the Amer
lean people for increasing its growth. rcstor-
ing its natural ,lor, and AT the same time u
lovely hair dressing and bcautiiier. 1t is to-
tally different from all others not sticky and
gummy, and free from all impure ingredients
that render many other articles obnoxious in
fact it is exquisitely perfumed and so cleanly
and elegantly prepared as to make it lasting
hair dressing and toilet luxury.
j. A. TYNEs, A PROMINENT CITIZEN,
Wilson, N. c., writes Some ten years ago
my wife's hair commenced falling, and got
very thin and turned gray but after using
'.London Hair Color Restorer'' the scalp be-
came healthy, the hair stopped falling, the
color was restered and is now growing beau
tifully.
Ask your druggist for London Hair Color
Restorer. Price, IS cents bottle. Six bot
ties, 81. Main Depot for the L. s., $50
North Sixth street, Philadelphia. Sold by
Partridge Bros, Augusta. sopl9teod&wf
Lungs cannot be made but can be saved by
the use of DIR. A. J. Flags Cough and Lung syrup
if taken in time.
That Hectic Flush Denotes Danger. Re.
lieve yourself by using and at once, too, DIR. A J.
Flaggs Cough and Lung syrup.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

is embellished by the publication of the Stuart
portraits of Madame Bonararie and her hus-
band. The third paper of the Brazil series is
devoted to "An Indian Village on the Anna
xon," which is described in clear and accu-
rate manner. Another fully illustrated paper
is Mr.. w. ii. Rideing's Trinity Parish New
York, with accounts of the unique charities of
this celebrated corporation. The illustrated
papers show wide range, and in most in
stances a seasonable interest "The Dclu-
sions of Clairvoyancc," by DIR. George NJ.
Beard physician of much experience with
nervous diseases, comes very opportunely af-
ter Mr.. Riddles recent book. The Metric
Reform" by Frederick Brooks, discusses pro
and con, a movement which is now prac-
tically before Congress. 1.-The Flooding
OF the SAHARA is treated by John r. Short
and contains valuable information about a
great project. "American Museums of Art.
by James jackson JaiNi supplies practical
suggestions for the prescrv, ton of the arch
ives of small cities and villages. The second
paper on EdiSon's Inventions Describes The
Carbon Button and its Ofspring" lis discDv-
cry and applications, including some here an
nounced for the first time. The poetry i
contributed by Austin Dobson, u. IL. Stod-
dard, +. W. Parsons. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Henry $. Cornwoll, and joel Benton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

A Soldier of 6l-5" has a communica-
ton in the last Oxford Democrat in which
he says Il am laboring man, and let
me give some facts and figures to prove
that the times are not so hard
as we are told. In 1868 | worked
for the town, building road. received
$3.50 per day, and I find by book
kept with a trader where I bought my
groceries, that paid $3.50 per Dbl. for
-four, 81, % per gallon for molasscs, Is cts.
for sugar, and everything in proportion.
Well, now | get LIP l-2 cts. per day for
the same work and pay 5000 for flour, 45
cts. for molasses, 10 cts. per lb. for sugar,
and everything in that proportion. That
is what specie resumption has done Tor
me, and wish it had come long ago.
Now, republicans Of Oxford county, we
have got to meet the, old enemy with all
their treason, but under new name
Now let us up and at them, close up the
ranks, gather in the stragglers, give one
grand charge, and they are ours. Let the
watchword be an honest dollar for rich
and poor, equality before the law, free
elections, no ballot-box stuffing, no fraudu-
lent naturalization papers,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25
Republican County Convention.

The Republican voters of kennebec County, are re-
en- ut
at 1890 O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose of nominating
two candidates for Senator's candidate for County
Commissioner, u candidate for County Treasurer
candidate for County Attorney, and to trans
act all other business that may properly come
before the convention. The basis of representation
will be as follows; Every city, town and plantation
will be entitled to one delegate aud additional
delegate for every seventy five votes for the Re
publican candidate for Governor at the election OF
1876. fraction OF forty votes will be entitled to an
additional delegate. The cities, towns and planta
tions are entitled TO the following number of dele
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25
Reduced Rates to Republican Del
egateS.

Half rates are given to delegates attending
the Republican State Convention at Bangor
June Goth, over the following roads Maine
Central including leased lines, European 4
North American, including all connecting
lines, Knox 4 Lincoln, Grand Trunk, Port
land and Ogdensburg, Portland & Rochester,
Rumford Falls and Buckfield, and the st.
Croix 4 Penobscot. A special train will leave
Portland at $50 o'clock, A. NJ, the day of
the convention running via Lewiston, leaving
that place at 7.Oj and Waterville at 8, arriv-
ing at Bangor at 10. 30 A. NJ. A special train
will leave Bath at o'clock Thursday morn
ing Brunswick, $50, Augusta, sos, arriv-
ing at Watervile $50 and connecting with
the train from Portland. Returning the
train will leave Bangor at 4.30 =. M. Trains
will be held at Newport and Burnham, until
the arrival of the return trains SO that DeX-
ter and Belfast Delegates may return the
same night. A special train will run to Show
hogan to connect with return train leaving
Waterville at $50 =. M.
The Maine Central, Grand Trunk, Knox &
Lincoln, u. & N. A., including connecting
lines, st. Croix & Pcnobscot, and the Rum
ford Falls and Buckfield roads will issue
tickets at all the stations along the lines to
the Convention and return for single rate.
Delegates over the Portland & Rochester and
the Portland& Ogdensburg roads will purchase
full fare tickets to Portland where they will
purchase half rate tickets over the Maine Cen
trail to Bangor and return to Portland. These
delegates will be provided with certificates
emitting them to free return ON these roads
from Portland to their homes, providing
they paid full fair to Portland on their way to
the Convention, by calling upon j. o. Smith,
Secretary Of the Republican State Commit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25
Reviving Business.

When such democratic papers as the
Boston Post and Lewiston Gazette ad-
init that business is reviving. the average
democrat or greenbacker will hardly have
the cheek to deny the assertion and pro-
nounce it republican lie.''
The improvement of business however
is not so apparent in rural communities as
in the large cities. The revival began at
the money centres and is spreading gradual
lyoutward. In this State the cotton, wooden
and shoe factories are in brisk operation,
but other industries must wait little
longer to feel the influence of better times.
But with BUSINESS improving in the great
cities, it is only question of few weeks
or months when the country will feel the
quickening impulse.
All the leading papers of the great cities
of all parties speak with confidence of re-
viving business. The New York Tribune
of Monday devotes an article to this sub
ject in which it says:
The volume OF business continues very
large for the season, not only here, but at all
chief cities except New Orleans. The
exchanges at New York during three weeks
of June ending Saturday, were 81 379 s73,-
S3a, an increase of PA per cent over the
exchanges of the corresponding weeks last
year. Yet the sales of stocks this wear have
been smaller by about 100, 900 shares than
they were during the three weeks of June.
1878. At Boston, the increase in exchanges
has been about Il per cent. at Philadelphia
about ~ per cent, at Chicago about 80 per
cent, at Milwaukee about 45 per cent. AT
Louisville about 4G per cent, and at Lowell
abont 20 per cent, with gains of less than 20
per cent. ut all cities except New Orleans,
where the loss--about 10 per cent.-has been
due in part to the prevalence of the fever
last Fall. 1t is especially encouraging TO find
thar business 10 SO prosperous at the manu-.
featuring centres. The grain movement also
eontinues extraordinarily large. During the
four weeks ending June IL the shipments OF
grain from the eight Western ports amounted
60 2l,G73,G77 bushels, against 1901 ,67s
bushels last year. While the shipments BY
Lake are smaller by 800, 900, bushels than
those Of four weeks last year, the shipments
by rail are larger by 5, 100, 600 bushels, Thu
exports Of grain during the past eight week,
have exceeded those Of the corresponding
weeks last year by 3, 262 $40 bushels of whea,
aad LOIS &C. of corn.
The prospects for large crops this fall con
finue especially good, although some disquiet
ing rsmors have been circulated. report
iksf the c0tton crop vas greatly injured BY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25
A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD IN
n0R0MBEeA HALL, BANGOR,
Thursday, June 26th, 1879,
ut II o'clock A. Nj.

for the purpose of nominating candidate for Gov
ernor and for transacng whatever business may pro
perry come before it.
The basis OF representation will be one delegate
for each city, town and plantation, and additions
delegate for every seventy five votes cast for the
Republican candidate for Governor in 1876. A ma
lorisy fraction will be entitled TO delegate.
The State Committee will be in session the evening
preceding and Al O'Clock the morning Of the Con
,ention, TO receive the CREDENTIALS Of delegates.
In selecting the Delegsies the Republicans are
urged to assemble in full numbers and to invoke the
aid and cooperation of all voters who willing TO
unite with them to the following ends:
/. To maintain the power and prestige of the
Union against all attempts to subyert oppose just
authority, and to insist that the Government of the
United States shall be controlled by loyal men.
q Todiscountenance and reprobate the reasonable
and revolutionary course of the Democrats In Cong
who threaten to cripple and destroy the func-
tons Of the Government If constitutionally pre-
vented from enscting their partisan measures into
Law.
8. To uphold the right Of the United States to en-
force its laws wherever they to operate and
to frown down and put down the dangerous her
ey Of the States Right secessionists who have al
ready plunged the country into bloody war,
and who are now attempting to control the Gov
eminent of the Union with the same measures that
preceded the rebellion of 1861.
4. To insist upon free elections-not only free
from National military interference, which no one
desires, but also free from the interference and vio-
olence of so-called State militia and the assassins
who with deadly weapons have seized the polls in
many Of the Southern States, driving innocent and
d~fsnceless voters from the ballot-box and making
mockery Of elections, which war upon free suffrage
has been made distinct political Issue by every
Democrat in the Senate and House voting against a
measure designed to prevent and suppress 1t.
8. Toupholdthe financial credit Of the Government
and to assure TO the people OF all sections sound
currency, eqniva to coin at all times and In all
places and redeemable In coin. And to this end to
oppose all distrscting repudiating and mschievous
efforts against the peace, welfare and industrial pros
perity of the People.
6. In these aims and purposes all citizens Of Maine
invited to unite that the hands of the President
and Of the Republican minority in both branches Of
Congress may be strengthened In their efforts to up
hold the honor Of the Government and the just
authority of National Law.
BY order OF the Republican State Committee.
GEORGE c. WlNG,) Snh
CA BoUTELLE, Committee.
FRED N. DOW, COMMUNE
J. o. SMITH, Secretary.
May 20. 1879.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25
Eresh Supplies of Vitality

TO renew waning stock may be gathered from n
accessible To all, and sought In vain by
any whose constitution aud ,igor not so much
dspidated rs To be wholly past repairing. Evidence
direct, convincing and ample, indicates Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters a. IA tonic of uncxampled efficacy
and perfect purity and possessed of properties that
constitute il an invaluable remedy for dyspepsia
stpaton, liver complaint urinary and uterine weak
ness, rheumatic complaints and maarial fever. Del
icate females and inirm old persons are nvgorated
and >oaccd by H. and the ply steal prostratinn which
usually follows severe illness i in IA great degree
remedied and onvalcsccncc accelerated through its
USE. II occupies Il leading position among medicinal
staples.
Don't pay 30 cts. and Sl.00 when You can
buy an article like .Adamsns Botanic Bal
sam for 30 cts. II cures Coughs, Colds, and
all Pulmonary Complaints. 81 and - cts.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

The controversies over Nanderbilt's and
Stewards wills has tended to make popular
the contesting of wills. One of the latest
cases is that of Mr.. II. w. Waller of Tidioutc,
Pa. He had for years suffered continuous
death from a scrotulous swelling, or fever
sore" on his limb. No physician could cure
or even give relief. In his pain and despair.
he willed 10 have his leg cut of. His friends
contested his will, and after repeated trials
succeeded in ''breaking" it and porsuading
him to use DR.. Picrcc's Golden Medical Dis
covcry and Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Tn
der date of December II, 1871, he writes
that "Atter trying every thing | could hear
of in vain took DR.. Picrccs Golden Medi-
cal Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
and they effected a speedy. perfect, and per
manent cure Read the People.
Common Sense Medical Adviser, an llustra-
ted work of over 900 pages. 1000 copies
already sold. Price, postpaid, Sl.j0 Al,
dress the author, II. V. Pierce, NJ. d., Buff
falo, y. Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

E5H SUFFERERS from headache, constipat
ed bowels, inward piles, costivencss, fevers
torpid liver, yellownos SIS of the skin and eyes,
Indigestion, dyspepsia, and all arrangements
of the internal viscera, are cured by
"Swayne's Tar and Sarsap, liza Pills. In
like many other purgatiyes, they do not irri-
tate the stomach and bowels by frequent use.
They keep the system in healthy g ndi,ion by
arou.ing the torpid liver TO healthy ton and
expelling by the bowels and kidneys the mat
ter that poisons the foundations of life. BE
particular to obtain ''Swayne', Pills" Price
% cents a box at all lcadin druggists. Geo.
c. Goodwin & Co., w ,oiesalc Agents, Bos-
ton, Partridge Bros, At gusta.
spnlotaolSwtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

drought is completely refuted by kilograms
from the Southern cotton exchanges, which
the Chronicle publishes. The acreage this
year exceeds that of last year by per cent.
while the present condition is only per cent.
below that of last year at this season. But it
is worthy of notice that the receipts from the
last crop have already amounted to 4,4l4,6l0
bales against 1927 $50 to date last year,
and 4,04l ,523 in 1876. SO that if the pro-
duction this year should fall little below
that of last year, it may still greatly exceed
the usual yield. The unanimous testimony
of those who have recently returned from the
northwestern States is that the wheat crop
promises to be an extraordinary one. Corn
does not promise so well, though there is yet
time for a great change in its condition. In
some part of the South there has been real
injury from drouth. The iron and coal in
dustries are steadily improving, except as
they are disturbed by two or three local and
comparatively unimportant strikes in Penn
sylvania, and the threatened strike at Fall
River is still the only serious disturbance in
the textile manufactures. In fact, while pro-
fessional workingmen in Congress and in pO-
itical conventions are bawling about their
sufferings and wrongs, the actual working
men of the county arc to-day more fully en-
ployed and at better wages, the purchasing
power of money considered, than ut any peri
cd since the disarmament of the armies at the
close of the war.
The greenback and democratic croakers'
fault-finders and retailer of lies about the
currency are now the greatest obstacles in
the way of restoration of confidence and
Improvement in business matters. The
sooner and the more decidedly they are
made to take back seats the more rapidly
will business improve.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

In accordance with instructions as given by the
convention of 1875 the County Committee will be In
session in the Hall one hour before the meeting Of
the convention TO receive credentials ofthe
=. II. MANLEY, Augusta.
l.. r. CARLETON, Winthrop.
DAVID WENTWORTH, Gardiner.
HORACE w. STEWART, Wateryilie.
WIN. PERKINS, Jr, Windsor.
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-25

1t is expected that Secretary Sherman
will take part in the Maine campaign.
making his first speech in the early part
of July. He is powerful speaker, just
the man the people ought to hear on the
subject of finance. This is to be memo
rahle political campaign
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Amount saved,
$27s,.W7

In order to get at the expenses of the State
for 1873, the Tribune, instead of going di-
rectly to the Trcasurer's Report for the fig
ures, adds to the amount of appropriations
for that year temporary loan and an alleged
deficiency.
1t would seem that any one presumng to
instruct the public should know that an ap-
preparation bill is an act of the Legislature
authorizing the Treasurer to pay out certain
sums Of money, either already fixed by law
or estimated, and is not and cannot be an ex-
act statement of that Treasurer S expenditures,
and that the temporary loan in this case as
in most others was sum borrowed in antici-
patton of income for payments authorized by
the appropriation bill.
Therefore to add the temporary loan to
amount of the appropriation bill in order to
get the the expenditures is like as if man
buying horse for a hundred dollars and
borrowing the money and paying for him,
should insist that the animal cost two hun
dred dollars. | presume no one will deny
that the State Treasurer's report for 1878
gives true account of the expenditures of
the State for that year. His accounts were
thoroughly examined, item by item, by a
committee of the Legislature, and found to
be absolutely correct, with vouchers for the
payment of every mill charged.
On page of that report there is given the
amount of cash on hand of those expendi-
lures, including the amount.
That amount Is sl.i3O632 81
Dcducting the amt of cash on hand, 1926 70
And we have, $i.273376 n
as the exact amount of expenditures by the
State Treasurer for the year.
The amount of appropriation for the year
1879 is ST. 1928, 5s5.3S, which includes the
amount necessary to pay the temporary loan.
Deducting this amount $3.50, 900 and we have,
as the amount of appropriations for expenses
of 1879, the sum of Sl,l79, 1898 which is
SOB, 79l .33 less than the actual expenditures
of 1873, instead of the enormous sum of
S27s, 907, instead Of the enormous sum of
S27S, 907, as stated by the Tribune and Argus
comparison of the appropriation bills of
1879 withthe Treasurer Report of 1878 shows
this reduction to be made as follows:
Reductions in appropriations for 1879 be-
low expenditures of 1878:
Public Debt and Interest, sci, sos
Salaries AMI expenses Of Oficers and Clerks
and Psyrolls, li,QGg
Furniture and repairs, Fuel and Lights. and
Night watch. State House. 1880
school funds and all School purposes, 20,17
Agricultural College, $500
inssne Hospital. State Prison and Reform
school, e.oos
Childseps Homes and Orphan Asyiums, 1850
PRINTING, Binding apd stitching. Advertising
Stationary. Postage, and Transportation
documents, as
Fish conmi.siOn .S. and propagation Fish, IS.
Indians, las
Statue Of Gov. King, 1000
Towns snd Roads. ~