Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-27

a QUIET DAY.
THE ENEMY DEMORALIzED.

TO Augusta he builded wiser than he knew
Whether there was conspiracy on foot OF
| not, the presence Of the blue-coats has had q
quoting and reassuring effect. 1t showed
that the republicans were in earnest; that
They knew their rights,
And knowing dared maintain.
The fusionists all at once began to realize
that they were engaged in rather serious bust
ness, and that they were '.biting off more
than they could chew as Mr. Dickey graph
ically expresses it. Certainly Saturday, Sun
day and Monday have been quiet and the
people are beginning TO feel safer and in bet
ter spirits than they have been for a long
time
The Boys In Blue
are still encamPed on the summit of Capitol
Hill and will there remain until further or
ders. A visit to the State House will com
pletely refute the Standards shameful libel
OF yesterday morning about the soldiers and
their quarters. No State in the Union can
turn out better or more soldierly looking
men. There are clerks. mechanics, lawyers
and farmers in the ranks. The rotunda is
certainly as neat as it was last winter. under
the democratic regime. We have visited the
State House several times daily while the
militia have been Quartered there, and have
heard no profanity or obscenity. The citizen
soldiers of Maine are gentlemen. and behave
as such. The Pine Tree State NAV well be
proud Of her militia.
State House Gossip.
They say Captain Berry of Gardiner is the
handsomest young officer in Maine
Eben Jordan, Esq, of Auburn, sent up a
barrel of eating apples to the Auburn Com
pany. The boys responded with three
cheers and tiger for their patriotic towns
men.
Nine reporters tackled Gov. Davis Sunday
night, and they all met with gentlemanly
treatment and a cordial reception. The Gov
ernor is winning 'golden opinions" from the
busy knights of the quill.
Hon. S. A. Holbrook of Freeport will
probably be qualified as State Treasurer to-
day.
Senator Strickland, the fusion senator
from Aroostook, has delivered the Houton
books to Secretary Chadbourne
Hon. Charles A. Wing of Winthrop yes
terday sent down by Mr.. Tallman the driver
of the Winthrop stage, one barrel of nice APP
pies for the companies quartered under the
dome of the State House.
Some one sent the Gardiner bows an i'm
mensc cheese yesterday. The young ladies
of Gardiner are connecting delicious pastry
which they will send up to-day to their friends
in uniform. Augusta girls ought to see what
they can do in that line.
Senator Barker says the way to settle the
muss is to shoot the newspaper men.
Sentiment for our w-makers, give the
boys a new uniform. They deserve it.
Soldier-lfe is about as monotonous as Mark
Twain's description of a boys dary,-"Got
mp, washed, and went to. bed Only this
and nothing more.
The Fusion Legislature-A Farce i'm Two
Acts.
ACT |.
Failure number one, was in the side room
in Union Hall this morning. There were
put seven senators present. After prayer
hat body took recess until o'clock.
ACT IL.
Speaker Talbot pushed his god-bowed
,pectacles back on his forehead, brought his
yavel down on the table, and made this
remark: ''The hour to which
his house adjourned having arrived, you will
to order" There were thirty MEM
bers present. Among them were the parlia-
mentary Dickey, the rosy-cheeked Swan,
and the plethorc Moses Hartman. There
was a notable absence of counted-in men,
bers Silence reigned for few moments,
and then a member arose and moved an adj
ournment. 1t was unanimously carried.
and the great body of legislators filed down
stairs.
Disxraceful Proceedings.
There is class of men in Augusta who, if
they have not enough animal courage to or
qanize a mob. are willing to work upon the
fears of citizens by their incendiary talk and
laWle acts. There has been a nest OF sucn
fellows in room in Bradbury's block on
Water street for some time past. They have
taken advantage of the excited state of the
public mind to play their cruel political jokes.
One of their favorite schemes was to procure
a drum, and march and countermarch to and
fro in their club room, in order to collect a
crowd in the street. They have succeeded in
this, and carried the matter so far that ladies
did not dare to venture out to make purchases
in the evening, and as consequence business
men in the vicinity have suffered from a loss
of trade. On Saturday night the matter
eliminated. A couple of horse-sleds came
m Water street at rapid rate, and halted in
front of the block Men dashed down stairs
and conveyed the loads on the sleds up to
the hall as fast as possible. Of course
large crowd gathered. and it was reported
that the sleds contained arms for the fusion
lists. One store was full of ladies making
purchases, who at once left the place fearing
riot The proprietor reports loss OF
some forty dollars in consequence. Mr.
Bradbury, we learn, has closed the hall on
~ his