Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-22

Gen. Garfield and wife celebrated the ami
versary of their marriage Thursday.
The Vermont Senate has refused to pass a
bill reducing the number of Supreme Court
Judges from seven to six.
Carl Schurz's paper announces that Schurz
will not remain in Garfeld's cabinet, but
will devote his time to his private interests.
The Chicago Times is authority for the
Gen. Grant is not over 81 900 per annum.
There will be only ninety-one members of
the next House of Representative who have
not served in that body before.
Gen. Grant has accepted the invitation of
the Frelnghuysen Engineers of Newark, to
eat with them at their campaign Notification
supper this Monday evening
The State of Pennsylvania presents three
candidates for Speaker of the House of rep
COMMUNICATIONS. Kelley, Shallenberger,
and A. Hen Smith.
Denis Kearncy, the California demagogue,
says he shall give up talking to the Califor-
MA oThiuSiIch ~ " Woih-
the more sensible conclusion.
Secretary Sherman has written another let
ter explaining his position, in which he says
that he would accept the position of L. s.
Senator from Ohio, if elected.
'Nasby" says that there is no longer 'any
yoose in KILN niggers to keep EN- from the
poles in the South, for the North kin elect
without us, and its wasted powder and
shot"
Representative I.oring has built hand
some house in Washington, and it is said that
after the expiration of his Congressional
term he will make that city his permanent
home.
Pocket edition of Benedict Arnold and ''Ju-
das Iscariot" is the title the Augusta Stan
dard bestows upon Gen. Chamberlain. Com
pliment to the Ex-Governor; it would sink
the character of the Standard were it not al
ready so low that further descent is impossi-
BILE. 1t simply wallows in its own nastiness.
Bath Times.
A letter from Jacksonville, Florida, to the
New York Times says: "Florida, so far as
election is concerned, does not to-day form
an integral part of the United States. The
audacity of the frauds enacted in this State on
election day have never been excelled in the
history of elections. Even Alabama and South
Carolina pale in the execution of democratic
fraudulent election schemes when compared
with the overt acts of the democratic Ku-klux
in this State during the late so-called cleo
ton
1t is noted that Tilden does not even whis-
per about the Morey forgery; that Hancock
says nothing about an attempt to throw out
the vote of the State of New York; that the
republican party does not disband at the de-
mand of Ben Hill; that Maine fusionists
no longer claim victory; that William II.
that about the only democrats who have won
Immortality in the recent canvass are Bar
mum, the mule buyer, and Hewett the endors-
er.
That the republican party in California,
this year has been able to overcome at least
%, 800 of the majority against it last year, to
elect half the Congressman, a majority of
the Assemblymen and to secure the United
States Senator is another attestation of its
wonderful tenacity and recuperative power
in this State. and something of an achieve
ment fer more like victory than defeat
The democracy has secured only the shadow,
while the republicans have grasped the sub
stance.
There is a statement going the rounds of
the press to the effect that Senator Blaine
shook the 'bloody shirt throughout the cam
paign while Snator Conkling was the first to
discover the potency of the tariff issue. The
truth is, that Senator Blaine in his first
syeech devoted three-fourths of it to the tar
iff, CURRENCY and like questions, and disap-
pointed his very stalwart friends by not max
ing the Southern question the most prominent.
1t is well to be just and truthful about such
matters. Boston Journal.