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Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

SILVER WEDDING AT REAprIELp.-The
H'ends Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Low, to the
ssaoer Of eighty, met at their house on Fri
Wy evening last, it being the twenty-hfth
saaiversary Of their welded life. II proved
sae OF the pleasantest occasions that it has
seo our privilege to enjoy for many day.
ase early part of the evening was spent in
'd shaking, friend greeting friend. At
s'ae O'Clock as we heard the rattle of plates.
listened to the words ''coffee for all,
oeneid the tables fairly groaning under
H load Of good things for the inner man.
~ea 1t was no longer secret as to the con-
-" OF the baskets and boxes, by the ladies
sv brought After supper several letters
a0n absent friends were read by Prof F. A.
.e0'nson. poem by Il. W. Soule was read.
.ae following are the closing lines:
.@ckins DER the past. this lesson learn,
IT. ssaon q ~ our strength, whcre'er we turn,
~ acasping hand. and heart so brave and true,
OF life o'ercome and Heaven In view"
fsr., ~ our lot, when done with all below.
"A 'e .;.s death, friend instead Of foe;
O.. I'm tne cherished ones we know aud love,
.ppaness to meet In Heaven above"
- Chas. Munger, in we'll chosen words,
e"'eo the welded pair with the beautiful
na which had been brough. by the
- us' among which we noticed an elegant
~. zee pitcher and goblet, castor. cake
sA baskets, beautiful oil painting by
Snofch, Pickle lar. and other things
nefous to mention. Brother Low re-
IN 70 the presentation speech. after
prayer was offered BY Rev. Mr.. Mum
- q - sAe ffiends returned to their homes,
~as when their oliver wedding day
+ Z - q
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
By TELEGRAPH.
MAINE.


Fatal Accident.
PORTLAND, January Is James P. Hart.
aged l6, messenger boy for the American
Union Telegraph Co., jumped Oh the Grand
Trunk train on Commercial street, Portland,
at noon, Saturday. clipped under the cars,
| was cut in two, and instantly killed
Train Rans oG the Track.
The through inward freight train on the
Grand Trunk ran of the track at Falmouth,
Saturday morning, smashing several cars,
but injuring no persons.
A Full Cargo for Europe.
Steamship Brooklyn sailed from Portland
for Liverpool. Saturday noon, With 2S4 cat
tie, 1872 sheep and full cargo.
Children Bitten by a Mad Dog.
At Cumberland Centre. yesterday, . mad
dog ran through the village, bit two dogs
| and hen and rushed toward the school
house. A little girl outside tried to escape,
but was bitten severely in the leg. The dog
then sprang into the schoolhouse and seized
little boy sitting in front, biting nearly
through his arm. The dog was finally killed,
as well as the other dogs which were bitten.
Arrival.
PORTLAND, January l6. Steamship Ontario
arrived this afternoon, ten days from Liver
pool.
Found Dead.
BIpDEFoRp, January Is. Saturday morn
ing about IL o'clock, DIR. w. w. Larrabee of
Ssco, 25 years old, was found dead in his
Office with bottle of chloroform beside him.
He had been unwell several days, and being
in the practice of experimenting upon him
self, with different drugs, it is thought that
he took an overdose of the chloroform by mis-
take.
Schooner Ashore.
RocKLAND, January 16. Schooner Louisa
Wilson, of Eilsworth loaded with dock stone
for New York. parted her cable, during 4
gale last night in old harbor, Vinalhaven,
and drifted on the beech of Green Island,
and lies keeled over, with bulwarks under At
high water. She will probably be got of at
considerable expense.
Postmaster Appointed.
WASHINGTON, d. c., January l6. Silas
F. Megguier has been appointed postmaster
at West Poland, Androscoggin county, Me.
Congratulations to Gov. Plaisted.
The following telegram was to-day sent to
Governor Plaisted:
House OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WASHINGTON, January Is.
We most cordially congratulate you, and
all who aided in elevating you to the Office of
Governor of the Commonwealth of Maine, on
your inaugural address. Also greatly rejoice
on account of the harmony that exists in
your State. {Signed),
T. II. MURcH.
]. B. WEAVER.
NICHOLAS FORD.
GILBERT DELAMAYrR.
F.. H. GILLETTE.
A. f. STEVENSON.
WILLIAM NJ. LOWE.
SETH II. YOCUN.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

NORFOLK. Va, January Is. The receiving
warehouse of the Old Dominion steam shif
was burned this morning, consisting of 4U
bales of cotton and $40, 500 worth of general
merchandise vas also destroyed. 8 5zsAFk
Atvirxinia City, Nes.
SAY FRANCISCO, Cal, January Il. A
Virginia City despatch says: The explosion
of lamp this evening set fire to the hoisting
works of the Hale Norcross mine. The
wind was blowing gale. and the hoisting
works, boiler room. changing room at the
machine shops, the blacksmith shop, ore
dump, rope house and carpenter shop were
destroyed. Men at work below made their
escape through the combination shaft.
At New York City.
New YORK, January Is. This evening
fire in the five story building No. 4Courtlandt
street, occupied by the Waterbury Clock
Company, Charles Bruno 4 Son, musical in-
strument manufacturers, was discovered on
the second floor. and burned upward, destroy
ing. in connection with water. to q great en-
tent, Bruno Sons stock and that of the
Waterbury Clock Company, in the fitting and
movement department on the fifth floor. The
Waterbury's Clock Companv's stock, esti-
mated at Sl60.00o on the first floor, suffered
by water only. probably to the extent of
$4,000. The building was owned by the
Cornelius Vanderbilt estate.
Incendiary Fire at Reading. Pa.
READING. Pa, January l6. Possibly the
most wholesale destruction of valuble thor
oughbred cattle ever occurring in Pennsyi-
vania took place bv the iucendiary burning OF
a barn on the Elizabeth stock farms last
night. Fifty-two head of thoroughbred Jer-
sey cattle. IS game chickens, FIVE thorough
bred hunting dogs were destroyed.
At Jersey City. Conn., oss, $4,000.
NEW YORK. January l6. One of the
Hopeville wooden mills. near Jewctt City,
Conn, was burned Saturday. 1t was owned
by the Ashland Cotton Company of Jewett
City. Loss nearly $4,000. Insured. loo
hands are thrown out of employment.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

1t looks little as if the ':regular" green
backers, as they are called. were giving So
lon Chase tatiy, and the old man was receiv-
ing it gratefully and asking for more. In
spite of any promises which may be made
to Mr.. Chase. the republicans still believe
that the grcenbackers intend to fuse with the
democrets. The phrase "no fusion is a lie.
The sage of Chase's Mills may talk loud at
present, but he will gracefully accede
to the arrangement in the end. Friday night
Solon was close.ed with Gen. Plaisted at the
Augusta House, and before the specious per-
suasions Of our Governor, Solon's obduracy
is melting away into thin air. At the next
conference it will be secretly agreed that
there must b. thorough union. although
the pill will be sugar coated to make it pala
table to the father Of greenbackism. Solon
Chasc has lost his prestige. He is simply
ay on the fusion wheel. and must go round
With IT,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
UTAH.


SALT LAKE, January Is. Snow has fallen
almost continusly in Wahsatch, about the
heads of the Little and Big Cottonwoo oods
since Christmas. The tramway sheds of the
Wahsatch & Jordan Valley railroad have
been swept away in several places for five
miles below Alta, rendering ingress or
egress almost impossible. Two weeks ago
snow slide carried away u man named Barby.
The continuous storm increased in fury with
the opening of last week, and on Wednesday
hight snow fell in sheets and the wind blew
hurricane. About 10 o'clock that night
snow slide carried away the flag staff, one
house, 400 feet of the railroad sheds and
swept across the fiat and creek to the op-
posite mountain. Later another slide passed
over the Victoria and Imperial House bury
ing two men who dug their way out in ten
hours. Continuing it swept away the Grizzly
boarding house, in which were Jonathan
Hoskins and four children, Chas. Symons,
Robert Howarth and Eben Morris. Of these
Mrs. Haskins her daughter, Jane Howarth and
Morris were killed. Another slide smashed
and buried the Toledo Works and boarding
house. killing Charles Barbridge and Frank
LapOrte. The storm continued and increased
in fury, the wind blowing a gale and piling
the snsw just over the crest of the hill north
of Alta on the Alta side.
On Thursday and Friday work was stopped
at the principal mine and many of the men
left the canyon for the valley: The great
weight started another slide half mile wide
Friday night, which would have completely
demolished Alta but that it was split and
partially diverted by fiat area. Just above
the head Of Main street it struck a large
heavily built store in which men had
gathered. Two who were sleeping in the
upper story were thrown out comparatively
unhurt, while the three who had taken refuge
in the basemen: and built a fire-John Fitz-
gerald, 2. b. Lee and VIM. Hollingshead-
perished, the house being crushed in on them
and fred from the stove. Richard Williams
and John Washington who remained to look
after the Joab Lawrence property, with in
structions to sleep in the tunnel are missing.
The avalanche swept away every building
owned by Joab Lawrence & Co., together
with their tramway.
1t buried the Buffalo House but the eccu-
pants three men who retired into the tunnel
were rescued. Fifty people came down last
night, leaving about 20 who for various rea-
sons could not get away. The trip down was
fearful. Leaving their homes with nothing
but the clothes on their backs. the women
followed through the snow the best they
could, the men carrying the children. There
remains enough mountain slope still unde-
nuded to complete the destruction of the
town and it may slide any moment.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
NEW YORK.
Gen. Grant in Sympathy With the
ColOred People.

COIOfc0 feOptes
New York, January Is. At the reception
last night by the colored citizens association
Of this city and Brooklyn. Gen. Grant re-
sponded to a welcoming speech. and made a
few remarks. in which he encouraged the
colored people in their efforts to become edu-
Gated, and said in his travels in the South he
had observed the great anxiety Of Young
colored people to become educated.
Not i'm Favor Of Telegraph Monopoly.
A meeting of the Cotton Exchange this
afternoon adopted a resolution condemning
the proposed great telegraphic monopoly. and
appointed a committee to confer with the
other Exchanges on the subject.
Mexican National Railway.
The Herald's Denver special says Gen.
Palmer telegraphs from Colorado Springs in
reply to q rumor circulated here :--"Tell
Denver papers that jay Gould has nothing
whatever to do with our Mexican National
Railroad Construction Company, to which
sl2 ,OOo, 600 was recently subscribed, and has
not dollar in it."
Terrific Boiler Explosion.
The large boiler in the dry goods store Of
McCreery Co., at the corner Of Broadway
and Eleventh streets, exploded this morning,
with terrific report. Buildings in the i'm
mediate vicinity were shaken ~ by an earth
quake. portion of . cast iron cover of 4
mau-hole. was hurled across the street
through the parlor window Of Mr.. E. E.
Reed, No. 16 Eleventh ST., and went crash
ing into the partition At the end Of the room.
Considerable damage was done to glass in
the neiqhborhood The streets in the vicin.
no one was hurt. The cause Of the explosion
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
Gardiner Local News.

The lecture Of Gen. Chamberlain, As was
anticipated, proved to be of superior nature.
Although the weather was somewhat stormy,
yet large audience assembled and heartily
welcomed Gen. Chamberlain on his presen-
tation. The broad and practical views with
which his speech was savoured. could do
nothing else than to interest his hearers, who
showed by their strict attention how they
appreciated it. 1t was pronounced by several
of our critics to be, without doubt, one of the
best lectures ever delivered in Gardiner.
Thus far the whole course has proved to be a
very successful undertaking, and we have no
doubt but that the next entertainment will be
equally so, as it is to consist of Il musical
concert by the Amphion Club. which has
always given very excellent entertainments,
and secured for il the cnviable reputation
which it deserves. They will be assisted by
Mr.. Geo. T.. Whitmore and Miss Darrell of
Boston. vocalists. and Miss Vannah of Gar
diner, piano soloist. This entertainments will
be given Friday evening, January 81.
The semi-termly examination of the High
school scholars will take place Friday and
Saturday, January 81 and %. twill be both
oral and written and will embrace the first
halfterm's WORK.
A singing school has been started at the
Summer street Free Baptist vsstry. under the
teaching of Mr.. Wm. johnson of this city
Mr. Emerson, the popular Farmingdale
grammar school teacher, has started writ
ing school.
An auctioneer has been closing out a
bankrupt stock of dry goods ut the store
formerly occupied by Mrs. +. +. Dumphy.
The goods were brought from Boston.
The entertainment given by the High
school scholars did not succeed in drawing
very large audience, yet those who attended
it pronounced it very creditabie to the school.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

wAsarxGrox. January Is.
Housr

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WAsHIsGroS. January Is.
HousE.
Mr.. Geddes. chairman of committee on
library, reported . bill authorizing the con-
struction Of . building for the Congressional
library.
The House went into committee on the
funding bill, debate on first section and
amendments being limited to ten minutes.
The pending amendment was that offered by
Mr.. Anderson. Mr.. Anderson. in reply to
the question of Mr.. Price, stated that by
issuing currency notes when the national
bank notes should have been received, the
country would gain; that the United States
would be the only power having anything to
do With the money Of the country.
Mr.. Frye of Maine gave notice OF q substi-
tute which he proposed to offer for the first
section, providing for the issue of bonds and
treasury notes to the amount of S6eo. .00O, 900
drawing 81 per cent. interest. aud redeemaSle
after one year.
Mr.. Anderson's amendment was rejected
Is to los.
Mr.. Phillips offered an amendment provid-
ing that the bonds be issued in denominations
Of $40. $40 and $50, either registered or
coupon.
Other amendments were offered and re-
jected.
Mr.. Debrell offered an amendment that the
revenue be used in payment of bonds and
notes advised to be issued. Tax fixed at
per cent. on all net incomes of over $500
and under 5000; and at per cent. on all
net incomes of 5000 and over.
Mr.. Wood and Mr.. Frye raised a point Of
order that the amendment was not germane
and similar to bills before the House.
The chair sustained the point
Mr.. Bland offered an amendment provid-
ing that nothing herein contained be con-
strued to require payment of gold and silver
coin held for redemption Of certificates issued
thereon nor to reduce the amount of coin
held for redemption purpose below $50, ,OOO,-
coo; nor to require payment Of coin which
may be necessary to redeem the public debt
on which interest has ceased. Rejected.
The House was engaged all day in discus
sion of the funding bill. but adjourned with
out final action.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

Edwin Reed of Waldoboro', who died at
the Insane Hospital recently. had been an in
mate of the institution for 81 yeais. He was
/. brother of Hon. Isaac Reed of Waldoboro'.
and before his intellect became shattered was
= Young man of great promise. He entered
Bovdoin College in 1888, being but Is years
of aQe at the time. and was graduated from
Union College. Schenectady, NY He read
lsw with his father, Col. Isaac G. Reed, and
pr,cticed law in Waldoboro' until 1859,
vbrn the condition Of his mind became such
that it was necessary to remove him to the
asylum where he has been pcaceable in
mate more than twenty years.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
Marrieo.

In Portland. Jan. y. by Rev. W: T. Phelan Frank
II Lawrence Of Portland, and Miss Ellie r. Will
son Of Deerng. ~
In Saco. Jan. i3. by Rev. j. T. q. Nichols, MI
VIM r. e. Lowell and Miss ida N. Leclair, all OF
Saco.
father by Rev. G. T.. Nash. Mr.. Clarence T. Mcinnre
and Miss Ad.ie NJ. Bird. all of Rockland
In BANGOR, Jan. l2, Mr. Horace E. Buck and MISS
Susan Kinks, both Of Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
FOREIGN NEWS.
Berlin Conference.

PARIS, January Is. 1t is stated that in
response to a circnlar of Barthelmy st.
Hiliaire, minister of foreign affairs, of the
oath Of December, all powers including those
who at first hesitated, have decided to sup
port arbitration. St: IIiliaire has instructed
the French minister at Athens to declare that
the Berlin conference conferred no rights
upon Greece, and that if Greece persisted in
going TO war she must not count upon the
support of France. Temps coansels the
powers to concert in a solemn collective
declaration that Greece has miscop srued the
hearing of the decisions Of the Berlin con-
ference and defining their character the
Temps says such declaration would give
the King of the Hellens The power he needs
for resisting the popular current.
Affairs in Ireland.
NEW YoRk, january 10. The Herald
cable London says: 4 split in the ranks OF
hone rulers has much weakened the Irish
party. It 10 rumored ParneIl has resolved to
use all forms Of the house to oppose the
coercion bill set down for Monday, and that
the Psrnell party will threaten that gosern.
0ent will be evmpeiled % spspcn3 sor I'm
prison the members before coercion meas.
ures are passed. Parneii claims that the
goyeFnmeue wants 70 force q Hennmu sre
tsalion 70 order to suppress 1e6kas 0sginfka
tfoa
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
Two Doctors Could Not Cure Me.
A Miracle Indeed
Read this testimonial from a well known wholesal
merchant of Plymouth n. II.

Read this testimonial from a well known wholesale
merchant of Plymouth n. H.
PLYMOUTH, n. H., Sept. 20. 1872.
Genlemen-About six months ago was bitten by
a mad boar. lie cut two gashes in my leg about two
inches long and an inch deep ! tried everything to
heal the gashcs and had two different doctors. but
my leg swelied fo twice Its usual size, and would
change in color at different times from bright red to
dark purple. My body broken out all In red
and white biotches, and was very icverish, and
nothing took seemed 10 help me, and the sores dis
charged constantly. was eco,nnended to try Sui
phur Bitters. ! have taken six bottles. To my
great JOY begnn TO improve. The sores began to
grow smaller aud discharge less. and have
healed up, and am well man. ] am well known
in this vicinity, and would earnestly recommend
those suffering from any blood disorder TO try them.
You nj liberty TO publish this, wish every
body TO know the virtues of this great remedy.
Believe me, gratefully yours.
w a. CHASE.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

nTF, the undersigned. having used DIR. COR
w BETTs SHAKER SAHsAPARILLA
~ III 7 IT, our practice, and having examined the
,ormu.a by which 1t is prepared, would cbeerfuy
recomnsr d II TO the community as the cheapest, SAT-
es', and rosi efcacons OF all the preparations Of
ssrssJ srIlia in the market. Its highly concentrated
state. teIe being in given amount Of syrup twice
tie amount OF Vegetable Extract that any other
eon'ains. the care, sil and cleanliness Of its man
uiacfuft. arc sure tuarantees Of its purity and
eject. 3. II. CROSBY, NJ d., w. u. BUCK. ~. D.,
). BUNION, VI. D., J. ). ELLIOT. ". d., JAMES
BABB. ". D., Y. COIBUkN, ". d., NJ. g. J.
fEwKsBTgY. ". d., A. q. FRENCH. n. D., JO-
sIAH CROSBY, ". D., A. q. GALE. NJ. D.,
JAMES a. GREGG, u. ID.
Those who have failed to be benefited BY other
sarsaparias shod fail TO make single trial Of
this Blood Purifying and Life Invigorating Com.
pound Of Shaker sarsaparilla, Dandeion, Yellow
Doci, Mandrake, Black Cohosh, Gareef, Indian
Hemp, and the Berries Of Juniper and Cubeb, COM
biDed with lodHde Of Potassium made BY the Society.
Prepared by the CANTERBURY SOCIETY OF SHAk-
Ers, shaker village. N H., and signed by Tho. Cor.
belt, II, inventor. Sold everywhere. Inquire for
torbef.t Shakers Sarsaparilla.
sS EncIoYe Stamp for Shaker Manual.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

awby couldn't respectable, intelligent wo-
-. sell goods by sample y well as men?..
-. . correspondent. sit wouldn't be any
,.,ser work to go from town to town with
..-rles than to stand behind q counter or run
.srinc machine" But what lady would
..a.re to be called drummer? What lady
-ouh travel all night after working all day?
Wat lady would swagger around hotel bar
,.om, telling anecdotes Of her various love
.A.;,? What lady, ,on meeting rival drum
- would spend two hours in trying to pump
hn q to his proposed route and then skip
~ to cut into his trade? What lady, after
,.;ng kicked out of one establishment for
her persistence, would pick herself up cheer
ssllv and skip into another?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17


Next season there will be large number
Of new houses put up in Augusta. 1t is
prophesied by those who ought to know. that
there will be decline in building materials
To-day, doors, sash and blinds are lower
than they have been for two years, and these
form quite an item in building. Window
glass has not been So low for several years as
it is to-day, and still il is on the decline
White lead runs at from 81 to $50. while a
year ago it was 50. RAILROAD colors,
(mixed paints) we notice billed at six cents
per pound, against seven and one-have cents
in July, 1880. Hardware is generally lower,
having been on the decline several months, ,and
likely to go still lower. Spruce lumber is
higher. owing to low water, rather than a
''smail cut" last season. The advance has
given an impetus to the business, and rush
for market in the spring will soon put spruce
at from sl0.50 to to sl2 per m. Three years
ago box of imported glass, 9xl3, could be
bought in this market for se. The German
government passed a law imposing a duty on
imported glass, to take effect from Feb. lst,
1880. German tradespeople Immediately
placed order with Belgium manufacturers
(three- quarters of our imported "German"
and French" glass is of Belgium mannfac-
ture) for all they could deliver up to tie time
this tariff went into effect. This caused a
marked advance in England and this country
and as the supply diminished, the prices ad-
vanced until a box of this same 9xl3 cost
nearly 81. After the German duty took ef
feet, and temporarily closed this market the
English and American market were to be
supplied, which have kept the foreign man.
ufacturers booming until the market has be-
come over-stocked, as is indicated by the fire.
quent declines. and to-day box of 9xl3 can
be bought for 81. 10, at about which price it
will remain until part Of the manufacturers,
seeing there is no more money manufactur-
ing just now, go out Of blast, or the import
ers form n combination and give it a boost
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

At the coming Masonic Levee there VII
be given to the scholar. in any of our public
schools, receiving the highest number of
votes, Webstcr's Unabridged Dictionary.
Ten cents represents single vote In order
to make the contest more interesting and
exciting. it has been decided to open the vot-
ing one week in advance of the levee There
fore, from Tuesday next. January 18th, any
one will be at liberty to solicit votes for their
particular candidate. the same to be handed
to the executive committee in a sealed en-
velope marked with candidates name, on the
evening of January 25fh.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

KExxEBEc FARMERS INsrITurE.-A farm
en- institute for Kennebec County, under the
auspices of the State Board of Agriculture,
vas held at Monmouth, in the Grange Hall,
Friday. The exercises were as follows: a.
N. lecture on WASTES in Manures," by Il. A.
Gilbert of +. Turner; p. NJ. lecture on FAC
tory Cheese Making" by Francis Barnes of
Houlton Evening, lecture on the Rela-
tons of our Common Schools to Agriculture"
by Geo.E. Bracket of Belfast. Each lecture
was followed by lively, interesting and
profitable discussion. The attendance was
good, and great interest was manifested.
The visitors are under special obligations to
the lady grangers for the generous dinner and
supper furnished in their hall.