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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

The trains from Bangor we're late yesterday
forenoon. A freight train off the irons at
Carmel early in the morning, caused the
DELAY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

The Monmouth treasurer note cases comes
up before the October Supreme Judicial
Court.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16
Business Notices.

R~Young man, If you smoke cigarettes,
get the CinnimCn cigarette, at G. w. Ryan's,
under Hotel North. octl4dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

The excursion to Boston over the Maine
Central. was well patronized yesterday.
Some 20 tickets were sold at this station.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

Did you pay your election bet yesterday ?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

Mis-. A. and Helen Burbank are in Boston
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

Fifty buildings, by actual count, have beer
erected in Houlton thus far this season. The
foundations for several more have been
prepared.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

Jacob Nilliken, the Scarboro centenarian.
whose serious Illness has been reported. died
Monday at his home at the rare age of one
hundred years, nine months and nine days.
He was, up to within few days of his death
in remarkably well preserved state Of
health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

Mrs. Charles Russell of Union ate her
breakfast Monday morning in good health,
and sitting down BY the stove complained of
feeling unwell. Then fell forward on her
iace and Immediately expired. Cause, heart
di.easp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-16

The Maine Central Railroad are 70 have q
large boat run between Mount Desert Ferry
and Bar Harbor next summer. Large teams
can be driven on the boat and ferried without
trouble.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
Miscarriage of Justice.
Phila. Evening TELEGRAPH.

The acquittal ofthe notorious WILL
lam Pitt Kellogg was thought by
those most familiar with the malad-
ministration of justice at the Nation
al Capital to he a foregone conclu-
sion. Politics rule there not only in
Congress but in the Courts. 1t is IN
all prevailing and irresistible infiu-
ence. If Dorsey and Brady, with the
proofs of guilt piled mountains high
about them, should be permitted to
escape justice, what reason was there
for supposing that Kellogg-who, after
all, was only a vulgar bribe-taker,
committing what is considered in
Washington only a venial offense-
should be held to a strict account and
punishment? Mr.. Kellogg has been
extremely useful to his party ; he has
other work to do for it. He holds as
in the hollow of his hand the Repub-
lican party ofLouisiana. TO be sure,
it is not much that he holds. inasmuch
as the Republican party of his State
is chiefly composed of post-masters,
revenue agents, and tide-waiters; il
has no Electoral votes to give, but il
has a seat in Congress, and that is con
sidered worth something by Mr.
Kellogg's political supporters. Be.
sides he has the delegation 10 the Ma.
tional Convention to dispose of, and
in a Presidential year that is a pos.
session not to be despised. MI. Kellogg
should not have been declared not
guilty, but he was, and his is another
tease in which justice has m%iscarried
But as there are so many similar cases,
one more or less is not of the grcatest
importance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
Frank Hurd. in a sneech in III


Frank Hurd, in a speech in the
House, illustrated the distinction be-
tween q tariff revenue and a tariff for
protection in the following language:
On what ground shall the Govern
ment interpose to help the business
of one at the expense Of another?-
For you cannot increase the price of
goods of the seller without compel
ing the man who buys them to pay
it. Why shall the Government as
sist one class out OF the labor of an
other Class, when the n is no more
entitled to the governmental protec-
tion than the other? If q mans bust.
ness be a profitable one it does not
need the protection Of the Govern
meut. If it be an Improbable one, it
is a good reason why he should not
put his money into it; but it is no
reason why he should compel his
fellow-citizens to pay higher prices
for the articles he manufactures in
order to make good his losses in q
business into which he has voluntar-
lily entered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

A Connecticut manufacturing firm
employing large number CT hands
has announced to its employers that
hereafter men who are addicted to
intemperance cannot find employ
ment in their establishment, and
those at present in their employ who
have been afflicted with this weak
ness must go, to make room for tenn
perate men. The firm declare they
had lost considerable through hands
who were occasionally under the in
fuence of liquor, and have firmly
concluded to do away with such
help in the future, employing only
such mechanics as could be relied
upon at all times and who were stran,
gers to liquor. 1t may be said in
this connection that this is a very
important and commendable step,
and will prove much more effective
to check intemperance than any pro-
hibition laws that al be framed. 1t
will prove q boom to the temperance
advocates, and if other leading firms
would pursue the same course it
must serve to fill the heart of the
habitual drinker with dismay and
force him to reform.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

The New York Star takes the
ground that the great duty of the
Democracy this year is n of histori-
cal justice-to wit, the redress of the
Infamous and colossal wrong perpe-
trated upon the party's candidate in
1s76-'77, and, through him, upon the
whole people of the United States
The Star says:
Two months hence the National
Democratic Convention will put in
the field candidates for the offices of
President and Vice President. 1t is
as much the duty of the party to-
day, as it eve was to keep uppermost
in mind the fragrant outrage of '76.
That the people do not forget or con-
done it, is proven by the widespread
and emphatic demand for the old
ticket. 1t is alleged by some of Mr..
Tilden's friends that he will not be a
candidate, and that he will, at some
distant day, write a letter announc-
ing his withdrawal from the field and
embodying his views on the situa-
tion and the issues. Whether Mr..
Tilden be a candidate or not, the fact
remains that the presidency was
stolen eight years ago, and that the
lagitious theft is yet unpunished.-
There is no other issue that a be
compared to this in urgency, impor-
lance or forcefulness. Everything
else sinks subsidiary to the still IN
~redressed, monumental crime of '76.
Whatever Mr.. Tilden's personal
wish may be, the National Demo
cratic Convention will not, adds the
Star, have performed its obvious
duty unless its selection of a nomi-
nee is made with special reference to
the v~indication, in his person, ofthe
sanctity of the ballot box and the
punishment of the gross wrong done
to the people of the Unitel States in
multiplying their expressed will.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
The Negro of the North.
New York Sun.

The general good sense displayed
by the colored citizens who met last
week at Pittsburg was particularly
conspicuous in the refusal of the con-
ference to make itself over to the Re-
publican party. The negroes of the
North are beginning 10 see clearly and
to say boldly that the alleged debt of
gratitude due by their race 70 the Re-
publican party does not amount to
political vassalage forever.
Every such declaration of indepen-
dent manhood is a good sign, for it
marks the progress of our colored
fellow citizens toward correct under
standing of American principles
There are forms of slavery besides
that from which the negroes were
emancipated tw%enty-one years ago
There are shackles not of iron, and
whip lashes of other than the pIanta-
ton type.
Let us look at q few of the Northern
States which, together are indispensa-
BILE to the success of the Republican
party i'll q Presidential election. In
Connecticut there were four years
ago, 1888 colored males of the voting
age. 1t is within bounds to put the
present colored vote of Connecticut
at $500. Gen. Garfield carried Con-
necticut by only 1866 votes.
Indiana is q very close State. By
the last census the number of negroes
there over twcnty-one years of age
was 1879. The transfer ofthis politi-
cal strength from II side to the other
means a change of 21,000 votes in the
result. Garfield carried Indiana by
only 6,642.
Illinois has been steadily Republi-
can. The negroes of voting age in
that State numbered 1886. Garfeld's
majority was 1892. Had 1000 color
ed citizens transferred their allegiance
to the Democratic party, Illinois
would have been lost to the Republic
cans.
The great State of Pennsylvania
contained 1882 negroes with votes.-
Garfield's majority was 1926. 1t
was in the power of less than one
third of the Republican negroes of
Pennsylvania to give that State to
Hancock by united action against the
party which loves them only just be-
fore election day.
Gen. Garfield's own State (Ohio)
gave him a majority of but 25,155.-
Tho census assigns 21,706 possible
colored votes to Ohio. Less than 15,-
600 of these votes would have given
the State to the Democrats.
New york had in 1880 a colored
population including 20,O59 males of
the age for citizenship. Gartield's
majority was 1852.
We commend these significant
figures to our colored friends for care
full reconsideration. Here are six North
ern States, with 1872 electoral votes out
of the total of 4Ol in the College, all
carried four years ago for the Repub-
lican candidate solely by the negro
vote. The time has come around again
when the party which assumes to own
the negro and his ballot rewards him
for the past and entreats him for the
future with such empty expressions of
solicitude for his welfare as are to be
found in the platforms of the conven-
tons. What other recognition has he
obtained after twenty-one years of
moral and political servitude!? APP
pointment here and there as the alter
nate to some white delegate to Chi
cago, and in New Jersey the doubt
full honor of being considered a little
more respectable than Secor Robson.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The death
of Judah P. Benjamin, at Paris, is
announced by cable. The deceased
had a remarkable career. He was
born in St. Domingo of Jewish par
ents, in 1912. Four years later his
family settled in Savannah, Ga.
At an early age Benjamin entered
Yale College, but left in 1927 with
out graduating and settled himself
in law practice at New Orleans. At
forwards he taught school. Falling
in love with one of his pupils he
married her. He won a leading po-
sition at the Louisiana bar. which
naturally brought him prominently
into politics. From 1853 to 1861 he
represented Louisiana in the United
States Senate, wherein he was one OF
the Southern leaders. He promptly
went owe to the Confederacy in the
beginning of secession, and did all
he could to give shape to the great
movement. He was Attorney Gen.
eral of the Southern Confederacy
and Acting Secretary of War, as well
as Secretary of State. After the
war he settled in London and amass.
ed a great fortune by his wonderful
success at the bar. He was account.
ed one of the most eminent lawyers
in England.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15


We will inform the "bloody shirt"
firter of the Greenville Courier, that
Decoration day vas pushed into
prominence before the G. A. R. boys
were muchly organized, SO that the
Eaton DEMOCRAT could have had no
reference whatever to it in speaking
of barnacles and Office chronics. So
long as the G. A. R. boys keep their
organization free from the influences
ofpolitical suckers and office seekers,
they are all right and have our well
wishes for success. Poor Calder
wood seems distressed and hard up
for something to help the sinking
condition of the old rotten Republi-
can party. If he can make anything
TO ease his worried soul by miscon-
STRUNG u language, he is welcome
to it. Still he has our sympathy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

The Columbus Times says it is
useless to conceal that the demand
for the denomination of MI. Tilden
is irresistible. He stands as the
srandest statesman of the age and
this popular conception is as clear
as it is true. His re. election is as
certain as his renominatIon will be
unless he soon in the most authentic
and emphatic way declines to heed
the call of Democracy. We may be
mistaken but we believe that Mr..
Tilden already perceives his duty
and the Democratic desire and were
he not willing to discharge that high
es. obligation of citizenship he would
have ere this announced his reasons
and permitted sentiment to crystal
ize upon some other candidate. His
silence is right.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

The Chicago Times says: "John
Sherman's machine for the manu-
facture of southern outrages for poll
tical purposes will probably close
down before long. The Danville af-
fair, upon which it has been labor
ing so long and arduously, has
brought out the fact that the negroes
of Virginia threaten and kill the men
of their own race that vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, and that the worst
bulldozing is practiced by the Ma
hone Republicans. John should have
let the bloody shirt alone, and not
tried to pains his boom red.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

G. w. Isaminger of Hamilton city
is after l.. D. Brown, State School
Commissioner, with a very hot poker,
making charges against him that are
not very creditable if true. Mr..
Brown was elected on the Democratic
ticket and claims to be a Democrat,
but we are. afraid his inordinate
thirst after the ''iesh potts. is going
to get the upper hand of his common
sense and make a fool of him. IT'S
said, puts "beggar on horseback and
he will ride to the devil" We ad-
wise Mr.. Brown to be dutiful, honest
and faithful in his present position,
and there will be no trouble as to his
future.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

The condition of the crops in Ohio
on May l, as reported to the State
statistical agent, is as follows:
The estimate of condition is based
on returns from the United States
department correspondents, and by
comparison with reports of the Ohio
department. The probable total
bushels of wheat, with fair, growing
weather till harvest, is figured from
the last five years average.
Wheat-Condition, IS per cent. )
probable total bushels, 34,531,S32.
Rye-Condition, 90; barley, S7;-
meadows knowing lands), 80; spring
pastures, So; spring blowing, proper
ton already done, Ga; spring plow-
ing, proportion usually done in May,
70. The proportion of spring plow-
ing already done as reported BY cor
respondents seems rather high con-
sidering the season.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Speaking of the wave of alleged re-
form in criminal law that is now
sweeping over the country, the Chi
cago Journal puts in a word that may
well command thoughtful attention.
1t says: "We think that it would be
a still more satisfactory reform, and
work no injustice to the parties in
interest, to allow the court the ex-
elusive right of determining the
qualifications of jurymen in all cases.
Too much liberty is allowed to the
attorneys on both sides to interfere
with the progress of the trial, and
the duty and privileges of the court
are too much circumscribed."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
The St. Louis Republican, SAYS an

Inc ot. Louis Hepu6ttcdn says an
erroneous statement of the negro
vote in ten of the Northern states,
purporting to come from the New
York Globe, a paper owned and pub
F'shed by a colored man, is finding
wide circulation. The aggregate
vote is set down at 935, S43. As
shown by the census of 1880 the ten
Northern states named have made
negroes over the age of twenty-one
as follows: Connecticut 1888; Illi-
nois 1886; Indiana 1879; Kansas
TO- Z Massachusetts 1856; Mich.
gan 6,130; New Jersey 10,67O; Ohio
q, 706; Pennsylvania %, 1892; and
New York 20,059. Total 127,125.-
The Republican says:
In at least seven of these states
the negroes hold the fate of the Re.
publican party in their hands. In
only Kansas, Massachusetts and
Michigan is the Republican major
ity such as to enable that party to LEI
the negroes go. Without the color
ed vote they have scarcely a fighting
chance in several of these states, anf
yet not one of the ten has sent {
negro delegate to the Chicago con
vention. In not one of the ten is there
q negro in q desirable elective office
The greed for piece will not permit
the blacks to have even O nubbin on,
of the public crib. There is, how
ever, one thing the colored voters
may count on. They will be remem
bered in the platforms. Genera
Timber, himself could not promise
more with less intention of perform
ing anything.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
The recent suicides of wealthy an

The recent suicides of wealthy and
apparently successful men ought to
afford a convincing proof of the pur-
suit after wealth which makes up the
lives of the majority Ct American
business men. Joseph Agate, of
New York, like Amasa Stone, of
Cleveland, having accumulated a
fortue CT $4,000, 900, ended his life
because his nervous system was ex-
hausted. In connection with the dis
covery of these two m%illionaires that
after they had amassed great and
honorable fortunes, their lives were
not worth keeping, we must consider
the suicide of a young man who, in
comfortable circumstances and with
his future assured, kills himself be.
cause he considered his life a failure.
Neither great wealth nor complete
ease of life will, it appears from these
sombre les sons, secure happiness
Work for the sake of work and with
leisure for due enjoyment will yield
q richer life than a fortune of mill
ions or a life spent in idleness. The
people who wish these lessons before
them and keep on striving for wealth,
must take the view that these men,
after a life of work, finding they had
only secured five or six millions, kill
ed themselves when they came to
compare that pitiful sun with ten or
twenty-fold greater fortunes of the
Vanderbilts, Goulds aud Astors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

General Butler has written a let.
ter, full of sound sense, to the work
ingmen, urging them not to enter up
on needless strikes. And he assures
them that most strikes are entirely
unnecessary. What are called CAPT
tai and labor are really but two forms
of capital. The money of the wealthy
is his capital, and the labor of the
workingman is his. A strike is
against both. For the stoppage OF
operations ends the profits to be
made-to labor as well as money
The original capital in both cases re
mains intact, but the profits cease
The Philadelphia CaU, in quoting
these sentiments, remarks:
This is sound and true. 1t is only
when, in extreme cases that rarely
occur, that the money power is un'
just and oppressive that strikes are
proper. AS a rule they are not. Ii
most cases the cause of disagreement
is transient, and needs only to be ten
porarily accommodated, to be puI
aside. There are cases, also, where
the negotiations are unwisely manag
ed, and disagreements produced tina
need not have occurred.
The fundamental fact is that nj
natural or necessary antagonism ex'
lists between the two forms of capital
And strikes rarely pay either way
By the loss incurred in a prolonged
strike, the workmen, were they tt
gain their point, are often years in
getting even; but usually a STRIKE
ends in q compromise, so that all tina
was sought was not eve attained. 81
the outcome is bad. The fact tina
Gen. Butler, while looking to tn
workmen for the presidential nomi
nation, extends such advice is a good
sign. 1t is sound sense, free from
demagogism and worthy the serious
attention Of the working class. If la
Dor and capital will agree to arbitrat'
differences, ali trouble will be speedi
ly over.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

How the grand old party does love
the poor laboring man-when a plat
form is wanted. It never thinks of
him except when a platform is to be
made. The Republican party is
under the influence and control of
the millionaires and monopolists of
the country and has never done a
thing to advance the interests of the
laborer, but to the contrary has done
all In its power against him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Walter F. Thomas, a colored can
didate before the recent Republican
Convention at Cleveland, for the po-
sition of delegate to Chicago. claims
that he was counted out" and that
the tally sheets which have been pre-
served show this. AS the Republi-
can Readjuster John Wise said, the
African members of the Republican
party still 'do their business in the
Kitchen"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Gen. Grant lost his wealth in Wall
street gambling. We have very lit
tie sympathy for him. He still has
an income of $4,000 per apnum
from a Trust Fund. That ought to
keep him out of the poor house..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Gen. Woodford at q naval bau-
quet in New York, stated thatit is a
burning shame that the United States
has no navy. The New York Sun
arises to add: Ever since the war
ended the navy has been under the
control of the Republican party-the
grand old party! Every Secretary
of the Navy during the: period has
been a Republican whose name is in
famous throughout the land. They
have made the American navy what
it is"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

A bill introduced in Congress pro-
yides that it shall be unlawful to col
lect fare On any conveyance in the
United States where passengers are
unable to secure a seat. Now there
is something like civil rights about
that for you.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Twenty-Five delegates TO the Re-
publican Convention in Washington,
which elected Conger and Carson as
delegates to Chicago in the interest
of Arthur, have made q sworn state,
ment that their votes were purchas-
ed, some by the candidates them
selves, and others by their repre-
sentatiyes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

The Grant & Ward Bank failure
will reach 100000 We have no
sympathy for money sharks. Let
'em.go to the devil; the sooner the
better for struggling humanity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Republicans want the tax taken
off of Injuries, the Democrats ask
that it be taken off of the necessa
ries of life, such as food, clothing,
etc. Which shall it be?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

The "old ticket" still Blooms. One
word from S. j. Tilden would lay
all Presidential aspirants aside for
four years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

How would 1t do for the National
Democracy 20 just say the "old tick
ct" and the platform of1S76, and de-
clare the Chicago Convention off?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

Blaine will accept if nominated and
so will Arthur, but it will be a bad
year for any Republican aspirant for
the Presidency.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15

An amendment to the constitution
prohibiting the manufacture or sale
of Intoxicating liquors in New York
was defeated by only three votes.