Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-29
Political.

Justice is slow but sure. Don't you forget
it, Barnum.
Gen. Garfield turns cold shoulder TO Of
fce-seekers.
Chattanooga, Tenn, elected a republican
Mayor, Thursday, by lis majority.
General Garfield says he intends to hold
aloof from the Ohio Senatorial complica-
tons.
The forgery investigation moves along
slowly, but there is no;perceptible democrat
ic desire for it to move faster.
Hancock carried only four counties of Iowa
over Garfield. Curiously enough they were
named Jackson, johnson, Lee and Davis.
Democratic election officers of the Sixth
Mississippi District have been arrested by
United States authorities for election frauds.
There are just 800 reasons why the demo-
Gratis got defeated, and one of them which we
will mention now is, they did not get votes
enough.
Gath hears that VIM. f. Chandler, of New
Hampshire, wants to be Minister to Italy in
place of the eminent scholar, George p.
Marsh.
A Chinaman has opened laundry in the
rooms lately occupied as the democratic head
quarters in Cleaveland, Ohio, and the faith
full and unwashed pass mournfully by on the
opposite side of the street.
Five of the republican candidates for Con-
gress in South Carolina will contest the seats
of the counted-in democrats, and the country
will have an opportunity to learn the election
tactics of the constituents of Wade Hamp-
ton and ''Hamburg" Butler.
A comparison of the States which chose
Garfield electors with those which went for
Hancock, discloses the fact that in the former
the expenses for postal service were more
than paid for by the receipts, the excess being
over two million dollars, while in the latter
there is deficiency of three and a half mil
lions.
Not far from Jackawaxen, says the Phila-
delphia Times is the home of two young Ia
dies, sisters, aged respectively Is and 20
years. They were each receiving the ad-
dresses of lovers, who were brothers, and
both couples were engaged to be married.
1t was their intention to celebrate a double
wedding about the holidays, but now matters
have changed. A few days ago the four
were sitting together in the parlor of the
girls home, when the elder lady expressed a
desire to attend political meeting then be-
ing held in a nearby village. She asked
her lover to accompany her. but he refused
point blank, giving as a reason that he was
not democrat. The young lady insisted
but still he refused. Finally she turned to
his brother, who it seems was democrat
and asked him to accompany her. To the
surprise of all he at once consented and
they went to the meeting. The two
who remained at home were quite ;ndig-
nant, the one at the conduct of her lover
the other at the way his sweetheart had act
ed. The more they discussed it the angrier
they became. They discovered that they
the ones at hOme-were both republicans,
while the other two who had gone were of
democratic proclivities. They talked on,
discovering little by little similarities of taste
and habits. and finally resolved each to break
with the old love and form a new alliance
No sooner resolved than the compact was
ratified by kiss, when by chance the others
entered. The gentleman told his brother at
once what they had decided to do. To his
great surprise no sorrow was shown, no an
ger manifested, and his wonder was increased
when he was informed that the other couple,
while on their walk home, had resolved to do
just the same thing. The hugging, there
fore, now goes on as usual, and the weddings
will take place about New Years.