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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-18
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Garcelon's Testimony.


Ex-Governor Garcclon has passed
very uncomfortable week and has. If
possible. added 10 the contempt already
felt for him. by his testimony before the
Investigating Committee. What he did
not know. or could not remember. rcla-
tive to the - counting out process.
would I'LL volume For instance. if
we accept his testimony a. true. he did
no! know. what everyone cl~e in the
State did know, that outside pariie, had
been informed of irregularities in the
returns from Fusion towns and that du-
plicatc returns had been made ont and
returned TO the Secretary of States Of
lice f.: he did not know, that It has ALWAYS
been the custom for interested parties To-
have accc,, to the returns. within proper
limits. for asccrtaining If clerical errors
or omissions existed in order that they
might he corrected at the proper time :
he did no, know. that Republican candi-
dates had been counted oui because of
the addition. or omission ct a letter
from their names. while Fusion candi-
date, were counted ia where precisely
similar additions or omissions occurred.
When the iabulaliou> were shown him
making it manifest beyond doubt. that
such case, had occurred, he weakly took
refuge behind the statement that hc
- supposed the members of his Council
were honorable men !" and he - knew
nothing about It,
The returns also show clearly that
letters were erased. that letter, were III
terpolated, that they were changed from
one into another. tina; the name, of town,
were forged in the returns after lcaNius
the hands of the town clerk all tor the
purpose OF giving the majority To- the
Fusion candidates. and abou; all ihi,
Garcelou claim, To hay, known aL>o-
lutcly nothing.
Only a short time ago, Thu same man
MAS boA>tiug il public that the issuing
ct certificates Of election Ia member
thus Illegally counted in MA, the
proudest act Of his lite.
His repeated declarations, that he had
deaii fairly and justly by everyone ac-
eordiag To the face OF the returns. sound
strangely in view of the fact that the
casual observer can sec that the return.
were doc;ored in every conceivable WAY
10 bring about the Fusion majority
and hr adds when accidentally. -
This fact became known To him. 1T t-.a.
a. "'et,uaf y'r'c,s~." The Boston .Iorr-
mi well say: Iueompctency or knay-
cry-.hcsc are the alternatives which
Gareclou's own statement. offer a, al
explanation If his conduct. and neither
of them a. We have minated. reflect,
any credit upon him a, an official or a.
= man.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-18
The Railroad Charter.

The petition for charter for Railroad from
Bucksport TO Ellsworth and Sullivan has
been referred to the Eext Legislature. This
was the course the petitioners themselves
asked to be taken IN view of the doubt o.
the legality of any special charter under our
amended constitution prohibiting special
Legislation. The same object can be OBJ
tanned under the general railroad law, and
1t is probable that steps will soon be taken
TO srgsnize a company under that law.
Should any legislation be found necessary it
can be had another winter, on the same pc
fition. So long however az there is any
doubt CT the constitutionality of special
charter, it would be unwise to have such.
This is the view taken by the friends of the
road.
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TN NEW EsGLAND Mutual LIFE In
sURANcE CoMPANY.-1k. ennual report of
this long-established and reliable co,npsry
contains several features Of interest Estab
lished in 1874. this company has made itself
a place among the strongest corporations IN
the country, and gives to its members most
desirable advantages. Thoroughly mutual
IN ITS policy, it makes the most careful in
yestments Of its funds, has an excellent
method Of taking risks. and is ,sfy liberal
in its treatment of retiring members. 1t,
business is conducted With strict regard to
economy. the expenses for 1873 having been
only half Of one per cent on the mean
amount insured during the year. Since 1869
the expenses have at no time been more
than .73 of one per cent, the ratio in tina,
year For the past nine years the ratios
have been 81, SO, 20, 81, so, 81, As. SO
and 80 respectively. The company has a
a surplus of sl.s79,i62Oe. The report is
now ready for distribution and will be sen,
free on plication--T Boston journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-18

resolve u relation to school exercises and
examinations was reported resolve 10 memo
rialize the General Assembly of New York
to amend the Hell Gate Pilot laws act in
relation To the sale Of the franchise of rail-
road corporations: an act 10 regulate the
practice in equity proceedings we're reported.
Passed TO be cngrossed-Aet to prevent
taking land-locked salmon and black bass
in Moose Pond in the towns of HARMONY
and Hartland
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-18

The Minneapolis Touring firm with
which Coy. Pllshury of Minnesota. il con-
nected Is to build one of the finest Touring
mills in the world this summer This will
bring the firms total capacity up to 5000
barrels day, and Minneapolis. which will
then be able to make $4,000 bushels Of
wheat into about 10000 barrels of -four
daily. prid,> Itself OIL being about to become
the great milling center Of the world.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-18

The democratic Congress is honey
combed with stock jobbing. Senators and
representatives are using official informa-
tioA and official position to aid personal
speculation. TIE great sources of food sup
plies have been locked up Ly a speculative
ring. One gigantic railroad combination
after another aids speculation and whets the
appetite of spectators.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-18

The fund in process of collection by the
New York Herald for the suffering poor of
Ireland has reached the munifcent sum of
over $4,000 and contributions are still
coming in at the rate of over $1,000 daily.
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Notice of ForecI ssure.

| Aigassas Carr, q Mar iaNtils. IN the tot,n,, -.
L iaite0-ks and stats Of Maine hereby -.
pubic notice, that have Il claim by rnsfrtts.,.
upon certain LOT or parcel Of real estate. sitTst,
in aifi Marlayille, and described a. follo,,'s
begih M az the northeast corner ON the count
loaa, OF tIiarics taTrs land so called; thence
seventy 10Y rods; thence -outherIy twens, ~
rods; thence westerly By Land owned 81 1b.11os
the spTlng of water above the line 10 sunt,,s 9.
mouse ana stable with, also with the ex saat
con Of lharies Cars spring on the land ~,
virgin, on the fifth 6ay OF September 4 n ~! .
ali' %. me same day assigned to me- and Ia r,,.,
81 IN me hancock Registry Of Deeds va ~ ~
tehoi ga The eontiition of said nsorteae,. rs rs
been broken by reason whereof, claim ~ - s mas
close and give the notice therefor. " lure
Feb. Is, 1850 "a hs-
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As wil b. seen BY. our dispatches this
morning the Legislature has very sensibly
repealed the law, recently passed, for taxing
the stock of mining companies and the law
is now the same as that passed in 1873.
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sheriff = Sale.
- March 'th, 1850

u A>,tfCk, -, March 1th, 1850
have this LAY taken The right which p,.,.rvs-r..,
fritHey and susan Penney, have to redeem from,
= nor t-sage u tfdatus teoInan, dated Jan 9Ist
a D. 1870, ana recorded in Hancock Revj.tr,- ~,
Deeds, toi To-, Page 30 Il certain lot or nsr,i
"i h',ai hstit situated in the iowa OF Marisvifl
" -4It l"ahls bounded and described a. follow
b'+ihuu'& on The northeast corner bounds ~ a.
Lll'' ~ ~ ~ Thence running east by IN No M
gre ea-yris hai f he Ministerial III 10 tn,
'i .lt COUNTY rad leafiing to Waltbam t,,,a.,
'A il't a"UnA-rt SAID County road, t. >thr C,r,t1-
f"ad ling through the town Of Variayili'ss
go y'"h said county road Ia the north lime ~
.+ y. - thence west GA the line OF lot No 70
t' the south east corner of tine Ministerial la
a.'''tc north ore hundred and sixty rods 10 fs,
meiii'pned bounds, being all that part OF the Wi
iii d t1e Ministerial lot iyng On the north ILL.,
% vas r"ad containing eighty nine acres me-
~ iSss with the buildings thereon sfanili,,,s
AM se!,l sei aid r'gh! pubic Apction. at ia
g Of Hancock Monday the 5th dag - Jun Jun
u -. 1850, az 9 o'clock in the forenoon -'P'' ~
true copy-Attest ~
S"Io \. r DEvEREUX, sheriff.
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The lie gislature.

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company '' ISSUE h"ua~. u't exceeding
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pF"ptri! an aet 9" aWcua tar charter IT rbe
ta' q. lfw'-'oa; an FIJI. 4ana,aauG tHy of
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''an 7. chapter "i Of the REVISED Statutes.
relating +" turclh,r ept-, sut trtl.ucr I'D
a,t e. incorporate th. >A.e ami E3Jct1-l
'''.F", ..e 4.'' Telegraph company 1H .e'
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.N~'"l''t s4.c 'e.'eeiiaa " a'1saia>-ci claims
against '"' "..e.' >.a.s' A' 'st r.i1io- '1
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+ ,"NH 4"a gE''.. wafet a.t z, ta.ar- s-a-
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NOrkissgtgpeu

Nefnrr Won begin yonr heavy spring work
attrr winter % relax elton, Your ~ EN- nc' Il.
cle tnsin- Srd streug hening TO prevent an At
tack q A1ue. Bii ~ ur spring Fever, ar -nute
other Spring sickness that VIII uuh' GA r5r q
seasons work. You vii .Ay, time, mu,,h
-irAnr-, ard crest expense II you viii gl,e une
bottle al Hop Biuer> 'n Your family tti-
m"ilh. Duu't BnHiHgt1H Nurkese.
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MOVING MACHINES.
GRAND SPRING OPENING


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customer t1 uur iarZr ami we'll selected 4tnc. We
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Notice to Subscribers.

The date on the address-label on each subscri.
l,ers paper shows the time Ia which the Euhscrip.
ton is paid; and all subscribers in arrears are
requested 10 paw up as soon as possible.
In all communications relating 20 subscriptions
our correspondents are requested to state the
Post ohice 30 which TIE paper IS OF l. to he sent
and % lie careful o~rite all proper names plain
ly-
In directing change of address, always give
the present address well as the one 20 which you
wish the paper Afterwards sent.
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Ayers Hair Vigor.
FOR RESTORING GRAY HAIR
10 IT'S NAFURdG rfFtLTrY AND color
PREPARED BY

Advancing veai $,
sickness. care, disap-
paintment, and l.erad.
ltsry predisposition
all iarn The hair gray
aud either oftiiem in.
niihe I to shed pre-.
inatnfely.
AYERS HAIR VIC
.hv long and exten -,
siye use has proven
that IL Stops the ial
lag NJ the hIlr imme-
tiiately; often re-
u e W s the growth :
and always surely "
GfAH-taa tFa w.e. RyE
The Portland daily press., 1880-08-10
Detroit Post.l
What the Republican Party Has
Not Done.

The Republicans have done some noble
things-things that will be remembered as long
as there is history. But there are some things
they did not do:
They did not use an army to force slavery
into Kansas
They did not fire upon Fort Sumter.
They did not attempt secession.
They did not plunder the nation of its arms.
They did not inaugurate rebellion.
They did not drive American commerce
from the seas.
They did not "huzza" over Union disasters.
They did not "huzza" over rebel victories
They did not mourn over rebel defeats.
They did not oppose enlistments in the
Union army.
They were not draft rioters
They were not knights of the Golden Cir
cle."
They did not commit the atrocities of Libby,
Belle Isle, Salisbury, and Andersonville.
They did not oppose emancipation
They were not "Ku Klux."
They did not commit the butchery at Fort
Pillow.
They did not commit the horrible massacre
at New Orleans.
They did not murder Dixon.
They did not butcher the Chisholm .amily.
They did not massacre black men at Ham,
burg.
They did not scourge, and hang, and shoot,
and murder men for opinions sake.
They did not organize the Louisiana white
league or the South Carolina rifle clubs.
They did not drench the South with the
blood of inoffensive colored men.
They did not invent the Mississippi plan"
They did not use the tissue ballots.
They are not 'moonshiners."
They do not resist the national authority.
They did not set up their States above the
nation.
They did not try to destroy the nations
credit
They do not try to pauperze the American
mechanic.
They have not been an impediment to ma
tional growth.
They have not been hindrance to the peo-
ple'S prosperity.
Can the Democratic party and all Democrats
say as much? The people can trust party
that has not done these things, but they can
not trust a party that in whole or in part did
do them
The Portland daily press., 1880-08-10
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

GOA votes for Steward on the ground that the
ballots had on them distinguishing mark
prohibited by law, in that the names were
printed in two columns instead of one; and
declared Snow elected To thehonor of Mr..
snow, he refused to accept position rendered
MIN IN so outrageous manner.
The statute under which the Governor and
Council assumed to act, reads as follows:
mo ballot shall be received at any election of
State or county officers unless in writing or print
ing upon clean white paper without any distinguish
person voted for and the offices 10 be filed but no
r0fe shall be rejected on this account AFTER is re-
ceired into the ballot bor.''
1t will be observed that this statute protects
the voter by requiring decision, obviously by
the selectmen, on the point as to whether
ballot bears upon it distinguishing mark be-
fore the ballot is cast for when the selectmen
have decided to receive any ballot, it cannot
afterwards be rejected for this reason. The
Republican ballot in Skowhegan bore the
names of the candidates printed in two col
thus printed, as bearing "a distinguishing
mark" The selectmen decided otherwise by
receiving the ballots. Mr.. p. presented
written protest, and by his request the protest
was forwarded with the return to the
Secretary OF State. In consequence of this
protest, the Governor and Council assumed to
have authority to reject, and did reject the
604 Republican ballots as having on them q
distinguishing mark, notwithstanding the stat
ute explicitly says that "no cote shall be re-
,jected on this account after III is receiced into
the ballot boz"
The law is as plain as possible, and takes
away from the Governor and Council and even
the selectmen the power to reject any vote ON
the ground indicated, after it has been re-
ceived into the ballot box. What is the excuse
of the Governor and Council for thus violating
plain law? They pretend that the Supreme
Court (Vol. 54th, page 602) decided by implica-
ton that under certain circumstances the Gov
ernor and Council might reject votes for this
cause A more barefaced Misrepresentation
was never conceived. The court decided in
this very opinion directly the reverse. OF
course the Fusionists will accept the statement
of their own candidate for Governor, Gen.
Plaisted, on this point. In his digest of the
decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, he
states in brief terms exactly what the Court
decides in the opinion referred to, in the fol-
lowing language:
''The presiding officers at an election are the sole
judges of Uhdt constitutes "a Distinguishing nady
upon ballot and after these officers have received
and counted any votes, the Governor and Council
hare poaCer to reject them.'-Gen III. ". Piuis-
ted's d APpteton'S Digest, p. 702.
Can anything be more explicit than this?
The Governor and Council overthrow the will
of the people of Skowhegan by a violation of a
plain law, and in the face of the decision of
the Supreme Court of Maine Voters of the
third district! Are you ready to endorse this
great wrong by voting for its author and de-
tenders?
The Portland daily press., 1880-08-10
[Kennebec Journal.l
Some Pertinent Questions.

Mr.. S. S. Brown and his co-conspirators in
the great State steal in their attempt at de-
fence say:
eve cannot understand how men claiming to be
honorable, could resort to such wicked means as
this Hale committee have done in order to BIAS the
reputation and btdcken the character Of the Erecu-
tire branch ofthe Government
Now word with Mr. S. S. Brown by way OF
Inquiry, etc. You are a lawyer of acquire
ments, fitted, as your friends say, to adorn
seat ON the bench of our Supreme Court. As
lawyer knowing the law, did you not violate
your oath of office as a councillor when you
voted to disfranchise Skowhegan? AS law
yer knowing the law did you not do the same,
when you voted to throw out he vote of the
town of Cherryfeld? Could you,'or could any
man or any class of men do more to blacken
your character than did you and your Cocoon
spirators when you and they voted to disfran-
chise your own town? or when you voted to
endorse the Gouldsboro forgery? or when you
in violation of every principle of law and JUS
tice disfranchised the people of the town of
Lisbon, Webster, Pennington and New Shar-
on? You cannot plead ignorance, for you
know the law, and with full knowledge delib-
erately violated it. Had you doubts you could
have consulted Attorney Mcclellan. Did you
l.
were acting in accordance with the law, when
YOU DISTINGUISHED these town? Did Mr.. Gould
to whom the people paid large sums of money
for legal advice, thus construe the law? Not a
bit of it. They are good lawyers and know bet
ter, and so did you. No, sir! You and your
associates in crime did not act ignorantly, but
wickedly, with intent and purpose to defraud
and wrong the people. You committed all
these crimes with the oath of God upon you,
for the purpose as Gov. Garcelon said before
the Hale Committee "of getting representa-
tives of the right kind" Yet you and your
associates in your great conspiracy against the
people, have the impudence and fool hardi
hood to attach your names to a paper contain
ing language like the above quoted. And this
YOU do in face of the fact that two members of
the Hale Committee, members of your own
party, Mr. ingalls, and Mr.. Hill, declared over
their own signatures that the evidence of your
great claim "not being contradicted, they could
make no denial of thei facts proved" These
two friends OF yours, say that you were courte-
ously invited to appear before the committee,
and show that its findings were false. You re-
fused to do so. The putting of your names to
such paper as the above extract is taken
from. shows that you we're depraved and wicked
enough to commit the crime charged and
proved against you. ).
The Portland daily press., 1880-08-10

worse than it is We wish to have some light
thrown upon the method General Hancock
would adopt in handling the questions that are
now uppermost in mems minds; not what he
would do if he had been President five terms
or three terms ago. Would he or would he not
veto bill that had tendency to unduly in
tiate the currency? Would he favor or oppose q
reform in the present tariff? How would lie
settle the antagonism that is growing up
between the federal and the'State courts? In
what way would he maintain the right OF
every citizen to vote and have his vote honestly
counted? What would he do as President to
reform the civil service? To these and similar
demands for intelligence, General Hancock
makes not the slightest response. This is a IA
tai error; all the more so that the party of
which he is the candidate has no sustained re-
cord ON which the public can depend. 1t has
been on one side of the fence at one conven-
ton, and yaulted completely oser it before the
next 1t has favored free trade and protection,
hard money and soft money; continuance in
office during good behavior, aud a division of
the spoils among the victors; free and hon.
est ballot, and shortgun campaign. Which
of these alternatives will they take up If they
get into power? No man can tell, for there is
no administrative record to appeal to. If
Gen. Hancock is too timid to lay out a civil
policy for his party, those who vote for him will
be simply taking leap in the dark. 1t may
result satisfactorily to the country, and it may
be just the reverse. Both the good and tho
evil OF Mr.. Garfield's administration could be
predicted in advance: while of Gen. Hancocks
nothing can be predicted except that, from
his unwillngness to speak, it may re judged
that he is influenced by men who are much
more likely to go wrong than to 90 right.