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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11

ID. ID. Coombs, the talented and popular
artist and carcaturist of Auburn, is just re-
covering from a slow fever of five weeks
duration. He is yet unable to do Any sketch
ing. Mr.. Coombs intended to transfer the
glores of Franconia Notch to his sketch
book this summer, and his illness has been
an unfortunate misLap not only to Coombs
but to the public. The campaign misses the
vivacty infused in it last fall by his spicy
sketches. We wish him speedy return OF
full measure of health and strength.
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Officers Shot by a Ruffian.
COLOR ADO.
Firemen's Tournament

DENVER, August 10. Several thousand
people attended the annual firemens tourna-
ment Thirty companies participated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11
RHODE ISLAND.


PROVIDENCE. August TO- Wilbur Marsh,
aged Is years, was drowned last evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11
The voItaic BELT Co.. Marshall, Mich.

Will send their celebrated Elcctro-Voltalc
Belts to the afflicted upon 80 days trial
Speedy cures guaranteed. They mean what
they saw Write to them without delay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11
SENATOR BLAINE.

caravan of Grpsies drove through our
streets, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11

Or high or low, or rich or poor,
None would foul teeth OF breath endure.
If they hut knew how sure and swift
Was SOZODONT, that priceless gift,
In giving beauty, life and tone
To every charm the mouth can own.
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lAarriro.

In Richmond. Aus 5. Mr. Herbert A. Knight TO
Mrs Annie A. W than, both of Richmond.
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NEW YORK.
Peter Cooper I'll.

Peter Cooper III.
New YORK, August 10. Peter Cooper is
quite i'll. His son. Mayor Cooper, was sent
for last night
Arrested.
VIM. Gill. found in charge Of the Louisiana
lottery Office is under arrest for selling lot
terry tickets.
James Mercker ia arrested on a charge Of
burglarously entering the wire cloth works
on DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn
DIR. Tanner.
Dr. Tanners condition continues excellent.
International Exhibition.
The commissioners of the International ex-
hibition Of 1888, assembled in City Hall, at
noon.
committee on bylaws and temporary
organization was appointed. after which
Samuel A. Haines, chairman of committee on
site, presented a report, and special COM
mittee Of IL was appointed to visit localities
mentioned in such report. letter was
read from Hancock. assuring the commission
ers of his interest in the undertaking.
Verdict in the Seawanhaka Case.
The Jury in the Seawanhaka case recon-
mend amendment Of the statutes, making it
misdemeanor for carrying an excessive
number Of passengers: recommend repeal Of
sections under which steamboat owners seek
to escape responsibility for accidents; severe
laws are advised for punishment of careless
or reckless pilots: the President and Con-
gress are asked to appoint commissioners for
revision Of tile navigation laws and steamboat
inspection service; also for establishment Of
uniform rules Hereunder.
The indictments against the officers and
proprietors Of the Seaw anhaka are all for
manslaughter.
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I1<Tt
aoou' midnight, Sunday. Is bns - ~
'n''''y Citizens Of Chelsea was ue,caf,,m.
appeu In the arms of Morpheus, , .ornd
ou'siue a. OF moving wheels avoLe h;n, :.
the witching hour Of night ~b.n -,
as' sa~n and hell itself seems brea,b;n,
A eon..s'on to the world. = as Sbakesne., :
says The citizen Of Chelsea did No, -
.lsA'e' out turned over and wa. soon ..I.s-
oh going out into his yard in the morn;.r
"e was surprised to find horse and W aoon
80 DIS door. Noone was in sight. The ami
maj gave gra,ifed neigh. He led tho h..
TO the stable, and soon placed a Sabb,,h A.
ner OF nay and oats before him. Tho .n;n..,
oid not appear very much exhausted. he :.
VI Dlown color, about six wears old viii
oiack name and tail and black no;n,. al
VIII weigh about 900 pounds. II il .u,
missed that the animal was .,o,., =.
some one who drove him until tired or
frightened, and then abandoned him. The
iisn'ia' owner can recover his property BY
applying to City Marshal White.
1he DIGS Tor the four per cent loan IF
si'o'ooo to the State of Maine, opened yester-
day afternoon, were q in number. and tho
aggregate amount was for 81, $50, 900. The
successful bidders were Messrs. Brewster
basset & Co., of Boston, at a premium of
oZ-lo0 per cent. The eagerness of sbrewd
and cautious capitalists to invest so largely
IN these bonds speaks volumes for tie high
credit of the good old State of Maine.
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food and medicine are combined IN the
most perfect manner in Malt Bitters.
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LOST

0N Thursday. the 5th inst. between Gardiner and
Augusta, one black saeque coat ana one sIlp
X ieaxins them at the Augusta House. Inquire
for CEPHAS SALLE1. usW'N
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11

| AUGUST!
--LATEST STYLES
NECK WEAR:
Fine Melted Silk Searfs.
Winsor Scarfs with Polka Spots,
Lawn Ties in Delicate Shades.
The new Polo Scarf. &c.
HANDKERCHIEFS:
White Silk Pongee, wide Hem Stitched.
Border with Polka Spots.
White Linen H'd'k'f. Hem Stitched, with
Wide Colored Borders,
Silk Handkerchiefs in Colors,
Fancy Linen Handkerchiefs.
HOSIERY:
Fine English Merino. in Fancy Stripes
and Silk Clockings,
Fine Cotton, in Fancy Stripes and Silk
Clockings,
Isle Thread with Polka Spots,
Large Variety of Medium Grades at Low
Prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-11
California Mining stocks.

SdtiIOrulH MIuluk StOCAss
SAN FRANCISCO, August TO-
The following the closing ofncial prices OF min
inOa "a.
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Transactions, LIS, 90 shares.
CAicago l,roAace Market.

CHICAGO. August 10.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
"a WHITED SEPULCHRE'

Bank failures have caused more
real distress, during the past year,
than all the wrongs pcrpctrated on
society by burglars and horse-thicves
combined. A New Jersey case is the
last one cited by the Philadelphia
Times as follows:
This time il is in Newark, New
Jersey, at the intersection of the two
principal streets of that busy city.
The First National Bank did business
in snowy snow.white building,
erected at an expense equal to half
the amounto of its capital. That is to say,
of the capital it was supposed to have,
That capital was q purely nominal
affair Of an imaginary three hundred
thousand dollars. 0nce thecpital had a
real existence, and there was time
when it was figured up as high as half q
million. But the figuring Of this CAPT
tai made little difference. The direct
ors might as well have figured il at
five millions or FIVE cents, as long as
the cashier was allowed to finger It as
much as he pleased.
This bank is a curiosity worth en-
balming in some museum of metropoli-
tan finance provided enough Of It's re-
mains can be found to embalm. IL is
like the rind of a cheese, the inside of
which cheese has been eaten out by
rats. Such cheese-rind may hold
together for while and present quite
respectable appearance, especially If
q few kind.hearted and skilliul rats
slyly combine to shore it up in its
weakest places and to drop little
borrowed or stolen cheese into the
places whence too much Of the genu-
Inc and proper cheese has been exca.
waited. The owners Of such cheese
may take pride in its external appear
ancc, Just as the directors and officers
OF this whited sepulchre doubtless did.
As they daily passed the corner on
which stands the snowy building they
would look at II and congratulate
themselves on their happiness in pos.
sessing the stock Of such bank and
in being otherwise identified with IT,.
And well they might be happy in own
ing shares, for as lately as April those
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
NEW SERIES--V0L. 81, NO. 26.

shares paid four per cent. dividend
to their holders. But II seems that n
system Of what is commonly known
as exiting" was kept up, and that was
what kept the bank up. II rats were
kiting they would do it by carrying
tonight q lot of cheese from one spot
to another spot where cheese was
more evidently needed to stop up
hole or TO cover a weak place, Then
tomorrow night they would lift that
particular lot of cheese TO another
spot where tho need seemed TO be
more urgent. In like manner did the
officials who did the banking for this
bank kite from bank to bank with
their ephemeral drafts making good
one day the deficiency of the day be-
fore, only to keep the tottering bust
ness on its shaky legs until the ineyita-
bic day Of final doom. This day was
when n New York bank refused to
continue to assist in the flying of kites
for the suffering and sadly weakened
institution. All of a sudden the funny
old persons who were supposed to have
been managing this bank were struck
as if by unexpected thunderbolts. The
who said he did not know
about the business, kindly
stepped out and tackled notice on the
door, saying that the bank would not
be open to-day. Then he retired to
express surprise TO and with the other
officials at the rottenness so suddenly
revealed. The directors all looked
blank. The large stockholders came
n and helped the praiseworthy effort.
They had all reposed confidence in
somebody else. Confidence is a de-
ighttul thing, and to repose it in any.
body is eversO lovely. Allthe directors,
with one consent, said that they knew
at all about anything and
hat the only persons who knew any
hing about anything were the Cashier
and the acting Cashier. The Cashier
mad gone to Europe, and the acting
Cashier had retired from his scene OF
action and had gone somewhere or
,ther, nobody knew where. These
directors are going to try to find out
One thing they have
ound out, namely, that there are
about twelve hundred depositors, who
ire going to hold a torcblight pro
,essiOn or something of the kind by
way of funeral service in honor of the
vhited sepulchre, They are about to
ind out another thing, to wit, that
,ank directors who in April declare a
our per cent, dividend on the stock of
! rotten bank become individually liza
Die if the bank tumbles to pieces
in June. So let the depositors be
happy, for the directors are wealthy,
md their experience will teach them a
lesson, even il it be costly
me.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1880

1t had held during our history as a
Nation as a legal tender for oil debts,
public and private, he denounced the
attempt as ia swindlo on 80 grand a
scale as to make the achievement illus
triousn and as "a scheme Of vast ras.
cality and colossal swindling"
18th. Resolued, That neither great
ability and experience or eloquent
partisan discussion Of the dead issues
of the late war will excuse or justify
past dishonesty and corruption, or
answer as a guaranty of integrity and
purity for the future,
18th. Resolved, That believing the
statements in the foregoing resolutions
set forth we cannot, without stultify.
ing our manhood and debasing our
self-respect, support at the polls the
nominee of the Republican Conven-
ton of this district for re election, nor
can We, without surrendoring our
rights as electors and oitizChssit silently
by and see a man so unworthy again
sent to represent us in the National
Legislature. That strong in the con.
viction OF right we call upon the elect.
ors of this district, irrespective OF
former or present party attachment
who desire honest government, 10 unite
with us in an earnest faithful effort TO
defeat the reelection OF General Gar
field and elect in his stead an honest
and reliable man.
The Conference Committee reported
by resolution as follows
ReSolued, That this committee unani.
mously recommend Gen. j S. Easement
as suitable candidate to be supported
and voted for at the Congressional
election.
The report was accepted and adopted
and Gen. j. S. Easement was unani.
mously nominated by acclamation as
candidate for Representative to Con
gress.
Gen. Easement then came before
the Convention and accepted the nolni-
nation in q brief, pertinent speech, the
action of the Convention and accept.
anoes of the nominee being greeted
with enthusiastic applause.
On motion the following District
Central Committee was appointed j.
B. Burrows, of Lake r. NJ. Norton,
of Ashtabula l.. Il. Durfee, of Geauga,
S. G. Todd, of Portage, and G. S. Field;
OF Trumbull.
The following were chosen a COM
mlttee to prepare an address to the
electors of the district; G. n. Tuttle,
p. Bosworth and II. II. Hine, Of Lake
]. A. Giddings, of Ashtabula l.. E.
Duriee, OF Geauga, l.. D, Brown, OF
Portage, and A, Youmans, of Trum.
bull.
Onmotion the convention adjourned.
l.. ID. BRowN, G. W. ENsIGN,
GEO. Il. PAINE, Chairman.
Secretaries.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
ELEPHANTS TAKING A BATH

The wallowing of half dozen ele-
plants in Frog Pond this morning was
a wonderous sight that will long be re.
membered by the thousands of Boston.
ians of oil ages and conditions who
thronged the knobs in the vicinity. The
picturesque strangers from India and
Africa were not less delighted. They
seemed to quatf the Chocituate and
sport in its wave with as much gusto
as if they were reveling in some remote
tributary of the Ganges or Nileiu their
native jungles. Seen at a little distance
the huge gray backs of the tropical
beasts loomed up like Cape Ann rocks
at the head of the pond. At first they
stood almost motionless, but as the
reality of the treat and their liberty
came to be fully believed in, they grew
quite demonstrative, and willing not
only to wet their "overalls," but to lie
down and roll-all except the venerable
leader who seemed to have something
akin to religious respect, like afakir OF
India, for the ancient dirt on his shoul.
ders, and carried ii back TO his tent un-
proianed by the ablution. The younger
elephants trumpeted, curved up their
trunks, stuck out their tails straight as
pokers, as in the pictures of elephant
combats, and finally stopped down and
buried their immense heads under the
water there remaining so long that
people who did not see the tips Of their
trunks above the surface thought they
were drowning. Two ofthem got TO
twining their trunks one around the
other, so as to bring their habby lips into
q clumsy OSCILLATION. For the moment
the show business was forgot, and the
proboscidians returned to their native
sports-and yet not wholly forgot, for
one degenerated youngster Of the herd
went round the plashy margin d the
pond holding up the end OF his trunk
like a contribution box for apples and
peanuts of the small boy who was on
hand in his usual force on such occa-
sions, Aftersome entcrprising photog-
rapher had secured several pictures of
the bathing monsters they demurely
followed their trainer and calico horse
from the circus back TO their tents, ad.
ding, no doubt, the grateful testimony
of denizens of two more grand dIvis.
ions of the globe that Boston Common
is the most beautiful spot in the world
Direct descendants Of the first families
of the Garden of Eden, they ought to
know Boston Transcript.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
THE sCARECRoW.

The farmer looked at his cherry tree,
With thick buds clustered on every bough
" wish could cheat the robins" said hej
"If sombody only would show me how,
"Ill make terrible scarecrow grim,
With Threatening arms and with bristllng head,
And up in the tree III fasten him
To irighten them half to death" he said
lie fashioned a searecrow tattered and torn
oh, twas horrible thing TO soc
And very early one Summer morn,
lie sat 1t up In bis cherry tree.
The blossoms were white as the light sea-foam,
The beautiful tree was lovely sight,
But the seareerow stood there 50 much at home
Ihat the birds Few screaming away 10 fright.
But the Tobb!nS, watching him day after day,
With heads on one side and eyes 90 drigss..
Surveying the monster, began TO say,
"Why should this fellow our prospects Light
Gle never moves round for the roughest weather,
He's harmless, eomical, tough old fellow
Lets all 20 into the tree together,
For he won't udgo till the fruit Is mellow !"
So up they flew and the sauciest pair
Mid the thady branches peered and perked,
Selected q spot with the utmos. care,
And all day merrily sang and worked.
And where do you think they built their nest
In the icarecrow's pocket, " you please,
That, half concealed on his ragged breast,
Made a charming covert Of safety aud ease
by tie time the cherries were ruby.red
A thriving ipmil,, hungry and brisk,
The wLoe long day 90 the ripe fruit fed
'Twss 20 convenient They saw no risk
Until The children we're ready to Hy
All undisturbed they lived in the tree;
For nobody thought to look at The Gag
For a robins fourishing family
Celia Tha1ier, ia June Vide .Araks.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
WHY EVE DlDNT KEEP A
HIRED GIRL.

A lady writer in one OF our ex.
changes furnishes some Of the reasons
why Eve did not keep a hired girl.
She says
There has been great deal said
about the faults of women and why
they need so much waiting on. Some
one Ia man OF course) has the presump.
tion to ask "Why, when Eve was man
ufactured of spare rib, why servant
was not made to wait upon her 7 +"
She didn't need any. A bright writer
has said that Adam never came whin.
ing to Eve with ragged stockings TO be
darned, buttons to be sewed on, gloves
to be mcndcd, fright away-quick
now" because he never read the news.
papers until the sun went down behind
the palm trees, and he, stretching him
sell, yawned out, Isn't supper ready,
my dear z" Not he. He made the
fire and hung the kettle over il him.
self, we'll venture, and pulled the rad.
ishes, peeled the potatoes and did
everything else he ought TO do. He
milkcd the cows, fed the chickens and
looked after the pigs himself, and never
brought half dozen friends home TO
dinner when Eve hadn't any fresh
pomegianates. lie never stayed out
till II o'clock at night, and then
scoldod because poor Eve was sitting
up crying inside the gate. lie never
loafed at the corner groceries while
Eve was rocking little Gains cradle at
home. He did not call Eve up from
the cellar to got his slippers and put
them IN the corner whore he LEFT them.
Not he. When he took them off he
put them under the fg tree beside his
Sunday boots. In short, he did not
think she was especially created Tor
the purpose Of waiting on him, and
wasn't under the impression that II
disgraced a man 10 tighten a wifo's
cares a little. That's the reason Eve
did not need a hired girl, and with IL
was the reason her fair descendants did.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

PURE CHARITY.-A poor Irish wo-
man went to q venerable priest in Bos.
ton, recently, says the Pilot, and asked
him to forward to Ireland her help for
the famine sufferers. "How much can
you spare? ?" asked the priest. 81 have
q hundred dollars saved" she said
"and | can spare that" The priest
reasoned with her, saying that her
gift was too great for her means but
she was firm to her purpose. II would
do her good TO know that she had
helped she could rest happier think.
ing Of the poor families she had saved
from hunger and death. The priest
received her money with moistened
eyes. "Now, what is your name" he
asked, "that may have published p
any name Z" said the brave soul, count
ing over her money, "don't mind that,
sir. Just send them the hclp-and
God will know my name"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

1t was at the opera house. Tho
performance was about 10 begin, when
one Of the two strangers looked all
around and said "Bill, where is the
dress circle p Bill glanced up toward
tho third gallery and replied II reckon
It is up yonder, ! see a feller taking
Oft his coat"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

"How do you like me now ?" asked
a belle Of her spouse, as she sailed into
tho room with her long train sweep
ing behind her. "Well," said he, ITO
tell the truth It is impossible for me To
like you any longer"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

Mamma, can't we have anything we
wantr Yes, my dears but be care
iul and don't want anything you can't
have"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

One reason why Leadville has no
schools is because all the school.
ma'ams who 60 there find husbands
between the station and the hotels,
and don't care a cent whether school
keeps or not.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

The pitcher that goes often to the
beer house is broken at last. II is the
same way with the catcher.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

A REPUBLICAN CONVENTION DECLARES
ITS VIEW OF GARFlELDs CORRUPTION
IN CONGRESS.
[ofheiAl Report,l
The Republicans Of the Nineteenth
Congressional District OF Ohio opposed
to tho return Of James A. Garfield
70 Congress, met in convention at
Warren, Ohio, September 7, 1876, and
organized by electing DIR. @. W. Ensign,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

A tramp called his shoes "oorpora.
tions," because they had no soles
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30

G. N. TUTTLE,
p. BoswoRrH,
ii. II. HISE,
Of Lake county,
j. A. GDDISos,
of Ashtabula,
Il. II. DURrEE,
of Gcuaga,
l.. D. BRowN,
OF Portage,
A. YouMASs,
of Trumbull.
, 1880-01-19

GOV. SMITH aATlRFtEn.
BOSTON, JIM. l8.-Tho ficrati'a Augusta special
states TINT tho Fuslonist Governor Smith, says
tnt sotno Of hte purity arc yct disposed to mako
trouble, but he himself Is only dessroils OF With
driving us gracefully ne possible under tho cir
citnlstailccs.
Leading Fuslonsts hero say their causo ts
wrecked.
THE HON. 1OftS c. TALBC-T,
Speaker or tto Fusion 11ousc, fn nn Interview
this evening. declared tho unchanged purpose Of
the F,,sonst Legislature to asseinble at tho
State-liu,lso Mt o'clock Monday afternoon
when tho report ut II committee on tho future
course Of tho Legislature will l,o presented
This Committee Is not III sesslon here, but lts
members hnve gono, attcr invlng cacli bccn it,
str1lcted to prcpnrn MI Individual stAtcIncnt OF
whnt appeared to him To be tho proper policy to
rlEstlc.
RoME OF TIE COMMITTEEMAN
arc aail by Speaker TalbDtt 10 t'e In fnvor Of
asking their recognition by Congress. Ifo Eays
furtnor TINT nothing would better suit tho Eu-
s!otIst Lcgisatu ro thnn to be refused tho ,lsc Of
tho Legislative Iin1I: thnt III snct all cvont no
Resistance wnul.t f,o offered, but tho IcRslnturc
will quietly dlsporso md abide by tho decision Of
events.