Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-27
General News.

/ The four cent stamp will be a novelty, but
necessity under the new law. The vignette
of Andrew Jackson will adorn it.
| 1t is reported that the President and Sec
retary of the Treasury will reduce the mum
| Der of Collectors of Internal Revenue from
! 126 to 40.
The Crow Indians in Montana, who num-
ber 3400, are mostly engaged in stock raising
and agriculture. Poor as crow doesn't
apply to these red men.
| The jury in the case of VIM. w. Scott, the
last of the 100000 bond robbery cases at st.
Joseph, Mo-, which has been on trial for two
weeks, disagreed, and were discharged. So
far nobody has been convicted of stealing
these bonds.
| The Rhode Island Democratic State Con-
vention met, and the cut and dried program
me which has been alluded to in The Post
heretofore was adopted. Hardly ripple is left
to show where the democracy went down.
Boston Post. Den,.)
| The Freeman's Journal of Dublin, Ireland,
says that Mr.. John Pearce, the Commissioner
of the Boston Foreign Exhibition, has met
with hearty response from the manufactur
ers of that country. The Irish exhibit will be
one of the most gratifying ever seen in this
country.
Crop prospects were never better in this
| country, and rarely worse abroad. Our acre
age is the largest on record, England's the
smallest, and Europes not much better.
| Week by week gold comes to this country
and the trade balance in our favor increases
Nothing but brisk home demand is needed
to make prosperity certain for the manufac-
turing seaboard; and this seems to have be-
\ gun at the West.
| The Boston Globe saws that Is 900 people
witnessed the sparring exhibition given in the
| Nach.p;ns h,ti MopIay ,uht ~ h.
poetical reporter assures the readers of that
paper that ''the only contests that might bear
a comparison with it were those of Ancient
Greece, when the most cultivated people of
that intellectual az well a. muscular nation
gathered together once in four years to wit
ness the Olympian games"
| A decision Of Importance to tobacco deal
ers was Wednesday made in the United States
Circuit Court at Pttsburg, Penn. A well
known tobacco dealer of that city was arrest
ed for violation Of that section of the Revised
Statutes which provides mo manufactured
tobacco shall be sold offered for sale un-
less put up in packages and stamped, except
at retail by retail dealers from wooden pack
ages stamped as provided" 1t was alleged
that jenkins sold small quantity of plug
tobacco contrary to the provision of law.
The decision of the court was that the gov
ernment has no case when il holds that the
sale of a small package Of manufactured to-
bacco by one retail dealer to another is not
retailing within the excepting clause of the
statute, and so the defendant was discharged.
From the new edition Of Messrs. Geo. p.
Rowell & Cos American Newspaper Direc-
tory, which is now in press, it appears that
the newspapers and periodicals of all kinds
issued in the United States and Territories
nov reach the imposing total Of ii 1876. This
is an increase of 5S5 in twelve months. TAX
ing the States one by one, the newspaper
growth in some is very considerable, The
present total in New York State, for instance.
is ,399--a gain of so in the past year The
increase in Pennsylvania is 45, the existing
number being 943. Nebraska's total grew
from lis to 20l, aud Illinois from 800 to 9Oi.
A year ago Massachusetts had 420 papers
now the number is 435. In Texas the new
papers outnumbered the suspensions BY s,
and Ohio now has 73s papers instead Of 692
The most remarkable change has occurred in
the Territories, in which the daily papers
have grown from 43 to 63, and the weeklies
from 1863 to 243-Dakota being the chief area
, of activity. The number of monthl;es through
out the country grew from 976 to ,034, while
: the dailies lesped from 996 to l,062. The
: figures given above are exclusive of Canada
which possesses total Of COG. IL Is inter