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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

At the republican caucus at North Vassal-
boro', Saturday night, the following were
elected delegates to the County Convention
0rrick Halves. Isaiah Clifford, W. 5. Bradley,
J. Ii. Allen. IL. II. Robbins and Geo H.
Ramsell. The present town committee f.
W. Bush. Will Bradley, Geo. IL. hansen,
Ii. Ii. Smell and Geo. Russell were chosen
for another wear
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

Next Thursday there is to be grand ex-
cursion under the auspices of the Universal
st Sunday school, from this city by rail to
Bath, thence in the new steamer ''Sebanoa'
to Oak Point, Mouse and Squirrel Islands,
and Boothbay IIarbor. See advertisement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
A Truthful SAVING

Nutrition improved, strength restored and
disease arrested by Malt Bitters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

san FRASCIsco, Cal, August ,. A Victoria
despatch says the total loss by the Yale
fire is 100000 Nearly all the safes failed
and their contents are ruined. Both men
burned at York's Hotel have since died
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
YER MONT.
Indicted for Murder.

DANvILLE. August ,. James T. DeJenett
has been indicted for the murder of his sister,
IN house of i'll fame. He attempted suicide
in Jail. SATURDAY..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
NEW JERSEY.
Burglar shot.
Buoy Replaced.

Burglar Shot.
HADDoSsyILE, August 2. 4 burglar was
fatally shot last night.
Buoy Replaced.
ATLANTIC CITY. August .. The automatic
whistle buoy which broke from its anchorage
on Brigantine Shoals, has been replaced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
Drowned.
Regimental Reunion.

GLOUCESTER. August >. The twelfth re-
union of the S,h Massachusetts regiment to-
day, was the largest ever held, upwards of
POO participa;inp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
FOWLER, HAMLEN &SMITH

Have marked down 1000 Vds.
Oriental Dress Cambrics to
GA cts. per 3D. former price
II cts.
They have also just open
ed a large assortment Of
Campaign Flags, all sizes, in
both silk and bunting, which
will be sold at reasonable
july2sfiw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
Fatal Accident.


NkwBrRYroRT, August ,. Eddie Powers
six years of age, was instantly killed by fall
ing hummer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

Gen. Thorn of Portland. United States
engineer. with others, is inspecting the har-
Dor to-day. with the idea of clearing il of
sunken wrecks etc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
NEW BRUNSWICK.


ST. JoHN. August >. Secretary of War
Ramsey. left to-day Tor Portland. Maine. en-
route for Washington.
Timber Destroyed.
The value of timber destroyed by forest
fires in the southwest district of the province
Is estimated at $500, 600
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Shot by a Constable.

LAWRENCE, August >. Maurice sullivan,
shot Al Methuen, Sunday, by Constable Mitch
ell. is not expected to recover.
Drowned.
Emily Adams, aged 10. was drowned while
bathing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

California Mining Stocks.
SAN FsANcIsco, August 2.
The following the closing ofcial prices Of min.
sfn tod
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

There are already "a subscribers to tue
telephone in this city. In Iardiher
central Office has been opened in Bailey 5
Block, which starts with ii subscribers
wire between Augusta and Fort Popham
at the mouth of the Kennebcc, is seriously
contemplated BY Augusta gentlemen connect
ed with the ice business. At present there Is
no means of communicating with vessels en-
tering the river, and they cannot be spoken
with until they ascend to Bath. The teie-
phone would obyiate this difficulty, and
would be extremely convenient.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

Dort Little Western arrived at Gravesend
yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
new STYLES Q! TYPES, BORDERS, &,

making it one of the Rest equipped Offices in the
State. large number of EXPERIENCED
wORKMEN are connected with the Office, SO
that all orders can be executed neatly and promptly
Common kinds of work done well and chsaply.
Poster work Specially. Orders BY mail will receive
nrompt attention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
Sad Bathing Accident at Edes Falls.
Republican County Convention.

The Republican voters of Kenncbec County, are
requested to send delegates TO a convention to be
holden at
Granite Hall, Augusta, Wednesday,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03

Genuine August weather.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-03
NEW YORK.
Gold Arrived.


NEW York. August .. Steamship City of
Chester, from Liverpool, brought SJ25, 200
in foreign gold coin.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
EnpEIGN

FOREIGN.
The revolution in the Argentine Re-
public is AZ an end. Bnenos Ayres has
been selected as the capital, and the
difficulties settled. A dispatch from
Teheran reports that peace has been
completely restored in Koordistan, and
that Sheik Abdullah is ready to submit.
The Kurds offer indemnity for the dam
age done, and will continue to pay tax
es.-Yellow fever is ravishing Mexi
co.-Young Garibald is in Greece,
and propo,es the formation, of another
Garibaldiin corps in the event of war
between Tu, key and Greece. num-
her of the Jesuits expelled from France,
have lately arrived in Montreal and
taken up quarters temporarily with
heir brethren in that city.-Biron de
Friedland and his wife, the latter u god
daughter of ex-empress Engenie, have
been arrested in Paris. -Considerable
political disorder has been reported in
| Hayti, but to all appearances it is quelled
by the arrest of ao at 100 citizens
There have been three shocks of earth
quake in week on Island St. Thomas.
| The yellow fever has prevailed slightly.
Following the subj lgation of the last
rebellion in Cuba. another conspiracy
for revolt among the negroes has been
discovered, and 275 participants ARE ted
in IA towns and villages. and conveyed
| to Santiago. Caldwell, "A rail
way contractor at London has failed; liza
bilities so 100000
DOMESTIC.
Cincinnati had strange phenomeon
Friday. like the famous dark day of
New England; it was 80 dark in the city
that gas lights had to be lighted nearly
all day lust week 1853 cases of diph
lheria were reported fin Brooklyn. N
- Nine tenlhs CT the business portion
of Pensacola, Fla, WAS hurned Friday
ght, five blocks. incldng 100 establish.
ments. being destroyed. Loss $750,O0
-Erio. Pa. had a 800 600 fire S.;ur-
la, ,ht, 2 firemen being killed
Ano her fire in John ?. CAV buckle
factory at Cincinatti Saturday night
burned five men to death.-Five U.
S. revenue officers were hilled or
wounded by Illicit distilers in Tennes
see, last week. George Scott half
bred Indian and negro. was lynched
Saturday night at Brazil, Ind, by "a par.
ty of masked men. who took him
from the jiil where he was confined
for outrage on Mrs Allison. the vile
of his employer.-Harry Will
Jams, his wife and child on
farm near Bryan. Tex, have died
since Sunday from poison eaten IN beef
Four others of the family are sick -
Three negroes, one woman and two
men, who murdered Mrs. Kennedy in
Clarendon county. S. e.. Sunday. were
captured Wednesday and hung on the
nearest tree to the place of the murder
that would hold tn IN Geo. Parrot,
Big Nosed George" the last of the
most desperate gang Of road agents or
robbers That ever infested Wyoming, was
sentenced Wednesday. 10 he hanged in
April Tho. Parker. Is years old.
was stabbed with penknife and killed
Wednesday, by a mate in quarrel on,
Z NJ
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
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NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
New HamDshira

NoW I1dlllpShlI0
DR. Nathaniel Bttchelder of Epplng,
who died recently at the age Of II. was
plac I'd in Fort Constitution at Ports
mouth for short lime during the war
on account of his disloyal utterances
and is said to have been the only New
Hampshle man who received such dis
ciplinc
Charles Simmons. the state prison
convict, who was arrested at Portsmouth,
on Saturday was arres,d for being tram p
and sent to jail for sixty days. A strong
suspicion rests against him of being the
party who committed the trunk robbery
at Kingston last week. Tho police are
investigating the csse
Massachusetts.
A WOMAN KILLED by HER PARAMoUR.
WHO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
A horrible tragedy cured at Law
renee, Monday night. Avis Plnkham h
table ghl in boarding house, being
shot and instantly killed by her paramour
II m rried man with family, Knap,on
Wardman. who afterwards attempted
suicide. Wardman and Miss Pinkham,
after returning from walk Monday
evening, stood con :ersiLg on the corner
of Franklin and Lincoln streets, when
Wardman sudde lily drew revolver,
pushed Miss P.nkham against high
board fence and shot h r in the head
Wardman ran home, stopping on the
way to get glass If beer. At home he
rushed into the chamber where slept his
wife and two children. kissed the children
and attemp ed to embrace his wife. who
gently repused him. He then removed
his hat. coat and boots, went down stairs
mo the sitling-room, shot himself and
fell upon The floor. Medical aid was
summoned but since the act he has been
lnsensble and is not expected to live.
VIM. Carter was arraigned at Spring
field Monday for committing rape on
his l3.years-' Id daughter. but had to be
discharged because the girl would not
tell Il sufficiently clear story to convict
him.
The body of an infant was found
frozen in the ice of the river a. Spring
field last week. One lung showed that
a little air had entered into it as though
The child had gasped once in struggle
for life. Whether it was deliberately
smothered az soon as born, or killed in
delivery and thrown into the river To
avoid the expense Of burial. is n question
Mayor Prince. OsmocraD was re-
elected Tuesday. at Boston by less than
4 thousand maj 'rity.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17

THE St. ALBANIA Messenger thinks IL
the bill to restrain turkers, now before
the Legislature. becomes a law. !. will
add another to our statutes which are
used almost altogether to got even
with neighbors in quarrels. when
one man gets mad towards another, F.
i, says-.and lacks the courage to have
il out in words or blows, he takes the
law to him and prosecuses him for pro-
fame swearing, Sabbath breaking. for
letting his dog 60 without q collar. let
ting his cattle feed In the highway. or
letting his turkeys run Mt large. Some
of these are good laws. bu. they all be-
long to a class of laws which people
who are naturally inclined to mind their
own business never enforce, and are
chiefly useful or pestiferous In quarreli
between neighbors." This is the truth
exactly, especially in the case Of our
crude liouor law. The State has had too
mnch of this sort of legislation. which
nre-, upooees that the people are unable
TO take care Of themselves in the most
| peftv matters.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
don't take the medicine themselves that

don't take the medicine themselves that
they, with such duplicity. prescribe for
others.
The Senate has killed the bill TO change
the name OF the town Of Ely back to
| Vershire.
| Stafford proposes a constitutional
amendment giving legislatures power to
amend or repeal any charters they NAV
grant.
A protracted discussion upon the aboli-
ton of the office of railroad commissions
er occupied the Srnase yesterday morn
ing. Senators Stafford, Cook and Geed,
were especially sewers in criicising the
uselessness of retaining The office with
its present powers. aud urged the es abb
lishmeDt Of u comm ssion with powers
similar to that posse by the commits
sloners i'll Massachusetts.
Sneak thieving seems to be ram pant at
the State House, hardly day pas ang
that SOME member is not relieved Of his
overcoat or wraps of some kind.
A bill has been introduced in the Sen.
ate appropriating $4,000 for additions to
the ate House under the plan recon-
mended in 1878.
The Senate has passed the constitution.
al amendments prohibiting towns bond
Ing for ilroals; also requiring ju lges Of
the supreme court to give their opinions
to the government
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17

SENATOR CoNKLING, Gen. Arthur, Geo.
S. Boutwell, and Judge Noah Davis pub
lished card last week, virtually accus-
ing Senator Bayard of lying in speech
last October, which as published accused
them of participation in the scandalous
blacku ailing, by which Phelps. Dodge
4 Co., importers of New York, were
mulcted out of 1871 600 in 1873. Mr..
Bavard has now published his reply
which ought to overwhelm Conking d
Co. He says he made no such lmputa'
ton on Conkling, but if he did the rec
ord shows that he hit pretty nearly the
truth. Itappears that invoices of Phelps
Dodge, & Co.'S imports, showed wrong
valuation, technically, but that they were
honest was evident that the over-valua
tions were s times as large as the under
valuations. BIT under the law an entire
invoice is made forfeit 10y single under
yalua' ion, and the firm had TO pay the
S27OO 600 to settle the case. most OF the
proceeds going into the porke's OF tn,
inf,rmers Arthur, Jayne, Geo. Bli-s q 20
| Conklng appeared with this crowd u
force the set /, ment, but b yard says Ia
only accused him of appearing as coun
sci and ne had written Conkling ex
plaining that tits was all he charged
and pron ,uncing the Newspaper reppr
If his speech to be ftlse and malicious
The Phiiadelphia Press, which Iepor eC
| the speech insists that the report va
| correct.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
WE believe in temperance in its broad

WE believe in temperance In its broad :
est sense. in thought, word and decd. in
its full scope, healthful restraint
upon ones passions. Prohibitory iegis'
lation in Vermont-very unfortunately,
we confess-has been fruitful in every
thing almost except in REFRESHING the
curse of intemperance. Perjury has run
riot and crime has not diminished under
the unbenign influence Of prohibition.
The igid statutes have been most rs.
GRAVITY violated. until the tendency has
been to create contempt for other laws.
II rum is to be made and drank, why
not make the traffic source OF revenue.
rather than of great burden to the State
Il would not surprise thoughtful men
even many Of those who voted for the
nuisance law, that this bill should hasten
Ia. in Massachusetts, rather than re
lard the advent of a wise stringent
license law. 1t is far wiser to license
an evil and thereby to control il. then &c
pass volume Of prohibitory laws which
do not prohibit.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
Has Hancock or Garfield the
Maiorityq

The popular vote at the recent election
is still in doubt, with the certainty that
the plurality will not exceed II few thou
sands either way. The Chicago Tribune
a couple of weeks since figured out from
official returns as 1t claimed plurality
Of 34Ol for Garfield. But its figures were
not entirely correct, as it now admits, and
IL has made alterIions which reduce the
margin to 1880. Now the Chicago Times,
which also claims to be dealing with Off
cial figures, gives carefully prepared
summary as follows
GARFIBLD. ...............'''.''''. s'foslso
HANCOCK ...,..........,........ H,so''osi
WRAvER ..........''..''''.'''''' 'o''''o
Dow ....,.................. iV,''o
IIancock's plurality .........'....-'''''' o,e'o
The principal difference between the
figures of the two papers is in Texas. In
A number of states the scattering votes
have not been returned, so very likely
we shall not know positively which can
didate is ahead until after the State Leg
islatures have met. Probably Hancock
will in the end prove to have the most
votes. At any rate the closeness of the
result jus ifes all that the REronMER said
at the time of the recklessly lying organs
which claimed majority of from $4,000
to half million for Garfield.
The margin of only few thousand
votes either way, in total of almost ten
millions, is fine one. Probably II change
of 5000 either way, which could easily be
proved against either party in fraud or
intimidation, would turn the scale. The
bare thought of the contest which would
now be on the country, if the choice de-
pended on the popular vote, is appalling.
1t ought to be sufficient answer to the
proposed plan Of electing presidents di'
rectly by the popular vote.
1t is bad enough now to know that the
10000 votes which would have given
Hancock New York and so elected him,
were traded away by corrupt combina-
tons in New York city. If such things
were to be pointed out in almost every
state of the Union, and the result hinged
on each one, the situation to-day would
indeed be perilous.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17

JOHN KELLY has at last got a grand
bounce and The Democracy of New York
is rid of its worst incubus, as well as of
its most treacherous leadership. His
| te. m as comptroller of the city expired
Tuesday of last week and Mayor Cooper
Friday sent in the name of Allen Camp
bell as his successor. Cooper had been
| unable before to fill vacancies be-
cause the board of aldermen, consisting
of nine Tammanyites, seven Irving hall
men and seven Republicans, would not
confirm his appointments, Tammany
and the Republicans having an arrange
ment by which they divided the Offices
between them, and stuck by each other.
Everything political in New York is ef-
fected by trade aud decker, and presuma-
bly, by paying better in offices than
Kelly had done, the Irving Hall faction
secured most of the Republican vote
and part of the Tammany men who
had not been renominated, making the
twelve or thirteen votts necessary for
confirmation. Kelly spent most OF the
night in consultation with Arthur and
the Conkling crowd, but they were una
BILE to save his neck. His selling out OF
Hancock in order 10 hold the city
spoils, did not avail him anything.
His power is now broken completely,
and the Tammany party which held
together only by the cohesive power OF
public plumber" will crumble. unless the
Tammany Republicans, under the dicta-
ton of Arthur and Conkling can devise
some legislation at Albany TO help them.
Campbell, the new comptroller, has
proved himself an honest and business
like public servant in the department Of
public works. Most Of the other appoint
ments also mark an advance in admins
tration. A strong effort is making to re-
organize the city Democracy, and if 1t
can be kept clear of rings and boss ship,
there will be healthy growth in New
York politics. Other struggles, though
more feeble, are in process for reform at
Philadelphia and Cincinnati, the other
two worst mis-goyerned cities in the
JJnion
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
IT is time for the nonsense about the

IT is time for the nonsense about the
Monroe doctrine" wi reference to De
Lesseps' Panama canal scheme, to cease.
If ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to build
it, let them raise the money and bui d it
IF they won't, they have no business to
interfere with foreigners who wi |. espe-
cially if Colombia, through whose terri
tory the canal is to pass, don't object
Furthermore. De L"sseps' project is a
priva e one, in which private capital
alone will be used. and there can be NJ
more re ,sonabe objection to the bulk OF
his capital, or even all of it being sub
scribed by foreign citizens, than there is
to he use of foreign capital in building
railroads across the country. However,
the pucky Frenchman has got the enter
prise we'll under way, $l25,OoO,O00 to the
sto, k having been already subscribed. A
Paris despal ch savs he will devote W, OOO,-
600 of it 10 influencing the United Stai es
Congress and press. If so, it would 81
lence most of the current talk against
him
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17

GEORGIA men want Aleck Stevens, who
is an old friend of Garfeld's, placed in
his Cabinet. The Atlanta (Ga) Blade i'll
sists that he coored vote should be rep
resented in it. The Burlington Ia
Hawkeye is pressing still more praciica
measure b. insisting that the Repubii
cans shou stand by their compliments
~ vote of two years ago and make col
ored ex- Congre ssman R,iney of soutt
Carolina clerk Of the House. Rainey Il
q first class man, fully capable, but Their
il no danger of hi, being chosen, for tina
vote was given only for buncome.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17

Hayes seem. to be trying hard not only TO
&c, every Ohio man into q fat position but
even 10 introduce politics into the army
Gen. Ord Who has done such efficient
service on the Mexican frontier. and who
voted for Hancock. !. compelled to go
On The retired Ii,t, while Zen. Mcdowell.
q clever man. and Republican. though
ore Of The most Inefficient oil our gen
erals. is retained n a department com
msnder. though older ,han Ord; lhe 70
Justice is heightened by the isct' ,ha'
Mcdowell is rich while Ord v poor
The case 10 even more q Agrsnt than The
displacement Of Democratic Gen. Soho
Geld q. We, Point By The "Chrs'isn
| Soldier Howard
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17


ToUEsrIoN has been rai4ed over the
eligibility of Judge Taft to the seat on
the Supreme bench, to which the lepisla-
ture elected him week before last The law
provides that the term Of court judges
shall begin "the first Of December al'er
their election, shall be two years, and
that no person can hold at the same time
the offices of judge of The supreme court
and member of the Legislature, Taft
being representative from Burlington
and not being oh sen ill Dec. 3, the con-
stltutiouaity of his elvc ion at all was
disputed aud at any rate it was claimed
la, he could not assume the office till u. C,
|, 1881. Gov. Farnham submitted the
problem TO The JUICES of the Supreme
court, and they have several of them
given an india-rubber opinion That the
commission can be legally issued, and
he assume Office Immediately.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
IRELAND is hurrying on to revolution.

IRELAND is hurrying on to revolution.
Judge Fitzgerald in Ulster County has
442 agrarian crimes on his docket. At
Galway, 236 similar crimes are reported.
The English law officers are powerless.
the country is wholly in the hands of
the land leaguers, and they are already
building up machinery of government
for Themselves system which not only
recognizes central executive and law
making authority, but which commits
sons magistrates for the settlement of
disputes, organizes a police for the en-
forcement of d, crees and the detection
of offenders, and which finally has Gre
ated Il militia prepared in the last resort
to repel force wi h force. Mr.. Forster
the chief secretary for Ireland, told the
Gladstone cabinet at its meeting Tues
day, that he was powerless to longer
deal with the difficulties without troops
and extraordinary power. Under the
law these powers cannot be granted him
until the meeting of Parliament on Jan
nary 9th, but he asks for them believing
that Parliament will sanction the meas
ure in view of the extraordinary cir
cumstances. Parnell aud his followers
spunkily announce that they will not
submit to coercion, hut demand that
their rights founded on the plainest prin-
ciples of humanity, be accorce them by
law. The Gladstone ministry is in dan
ger of going to pieces over the problem,
for John Bright and Chamberlain declare
their intention of resigning, if q coerciye
policy is adopted.