Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-27
Political.

An attempt will be made by the House af
ter it meets to pass three of the appropria-
ton bills before the holidays.
IL would be easier for one of Barnum's
mules to pass through the eye of needle,
than for that gentlemen to enter into the
kingdom of Heaven.
1t is believed that the republicans in the
Tennessee legislature will be able to elect
their candidate for United States Senator,
Horace Maynard.
Rev. Congressman S. Hyatt Smith of
Brooklyn is going to try the experiment of
sitting in the House during the week and re-
turning home to preach on Sundays.
The faction of the republican party led by
Mr.. Daggett and hostile to Senator Conk-
ling elected majority of the republican gen.
eral committee in Brooklyn, Monday even
ing.
The Boston Journal says at is the gen.
eral opinion that Senator Blaine has ruined
the proposition to make ex-Presidents Sena-
tors for life. He literally crushed the life
out of it,
Gen. Garfield and wife reached Washing
ton Tuesday evening. In consequence of
his request there was no formal reception and
he was permitted to proceed quietly to his
own residence.
1t is stated that Colonel Fair carried Neva-
la bv what is known in that print
tive region as "a coin campaign. Votes
were bought at from $40 to 800 each. and
Fairs own orders to his agents were to find
ont Sharon offering for votes, and to
go him five dollars better.
1t is said that Miss Mabel Nav, young
English lady of high character and rare ac-
complishments, will be the companion and
assistant of Mrs. Gen. Garfield in the White
House. Last year she was teacher in Mrs.
Westfalrs seminary in Dayton. o.. and won
universal respect and esteem.
The convict system of Mississippi, while
not so infamous as that of Georgia,is both I'M
just and cruel. The colored prisoners are
leased to two or three prominent democrats
at s 25 per month, and are hired by them to
farmers at SO or 80 per month. Many bear
the marks of the whip and other instruments
of torture.
While Mr.. King protests against the order
of Commissioner Raum directing the proper
protection to be furnished United States Off
GERS in the enforcement of the laws. he fails
to raise his voice against those who assassin
ated one citizen and forced another to flee for
his life the latter being government revenue
officer and candidate against Mr.. King for
Congress.
Washington correspondent SAYS that a
Mississippi woman is employed in one of the
Departments who bitterly assaulted Maine
woman in the same room who lost three rela-
tives in the army because she spoke disre-
specially of JEFF Davis. The Mississippi
woman went SO far as to request the chief of
the room TO forbid to Maine woman to make
further reflections upon that brave and good
man. The woman holds the place at the re-
quest of a republican Senator.
The democratic press are all out with de-
mand for reorganization of the party, ''recon-
struction of its principles" a rubbish heap.
or sewer. may contain elements of value if
properly assorted and applied. but no SANE
man would think of attempting to construct
a fine residence from such material. The
democratic party may contain elements that
if it were possible to rescue them from the
combination of filth by which they are sur
rounded, might be made available as foun-
dation on which to build fabric of Govern
ment. but no American citizen Of sound
mind, believes that any reconstruction of the
democratic party at the hands Of those who
propose it. would result in any publication
that would ensure safety to the Nation, and
permanency to its institutions, or honorable
administration of our country's affairs.
The counsel for the prosecution in the Mo-
rev letter case. for some time past, have been
carefully examining the letter and the en-
velope in which it was inclosed, to see if
either would afford any clue to the writer.
The Washington postmark is different from
that in use in the Post-ofiice there at the date
fof the letter. Now it is certain that the en-
velope originally bore another name. Pilot
ographic copies of it, very much enlarged,
have been taken, and these reveal that an ad-
dress has been nearly erased from it, The
name was either ssCox' or "Eox." care of