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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-11-26
WILKINSON'S IDENTITY


IL Is beheved by all mat wilkinson is not the true
name of the man who was hanged on Friday, and
nrohab,v II will never ho kno,,,, who .ho o,,,,u;.
p0'S - Will "o'oi w hno"h WIN ''io o"'Pil
was. 1t is common for sailors to pass under fic-
titious names. When Mrs. Knowles talked with him
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oh ri'"y she iinpioreo MN 10 Tell her MS true
name that she might write to his mother, but he
refused, and the secret died with him. Mr.. Arthur
D.. 80 po,e... .-.- H..
l. bfowh' Oh belfast' says that few years ago
when he was superintendent of a mine at Bluehill,
Wilkinson worked with him fo,. a time and si,r,od
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his name Wllkerson. He was disiked by the crews
and all were glad when he left
wILKINsON's LETTERS.
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-11-26

We received an invitation to reception to be
given by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Atwood, at their
home in Winterport last Monday evening, and
regret our inability to be present. 1t was the
18th anniversary of their marriage, and we shall
hope to chronicle their golden wedding.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-11-26

A Legislature without reporters would be
like man winking at pretty girl in the dark
he might know what he was doing, but nobody
else would. Portland Advertiser.
This means that the reporters of past sessions
should have front seats at the Legislative reun-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-11-26

POLICE NOTES. saturday evening two tramps,
Thomas Collins and Patrick Donohue, called at the
house of 7. w. Pitcher lit this city, ana asked for
something to cat While Mr. Pitcher was getting
them food Collins stole an ulster from the entry
The men lodged in Jail that night. City Marshal
Richards took the matter in hand, searched the Jail
and found the ulster in the cell of Collins. The
men were arrested ana taken before Judge Boari-
man Monday. Collins admitted the theft and
sentenced to sixty DAYS in jail. ponohue was
discharged. .....John schuyler, of Bangor, was
drunk on our streets Monday night, and displayed
a revolver, He was taken in by Officer Robinson
John now languishes in Jail for thirty days.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-11-26

George A. Quimby, Of this city, says he has vests
enough to single waldo county which he wants
made. Call at his place of business and be sup
piled. Mr.. j. G. Paul, of Belfast, offers sale
his house and lot on Cedar street, as he contem.
plates a change of business Mrs. J. g. Paul adj
vertises fashionable dress making at her home, y
Cedar street ChiIiren's clothing speciaDty...
II. o. Dodge of this city, has an abundance Of
work and wants vest and pant makers and finish
ers.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-11-26

HOLIDAY GOODS. Mr.. Dwight p. Palmer, Of
this city, is the first to advertise holiday goods.
He has Just returned from the Boston markets with
choice selection, a list of which may be found in
his advertisement. He also has full stock of
furnishing goods, underwear &c. Those in want
of holiday goods, should call on Mr.. Palmer
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
ROach'S Private Fortune.

The jealous defenders of John Roach
are pointing with pride to the alleged
fact that he owns $30,G00,000 worth OF
merchant ships, all of them flying the
American flag. This is very interesting
piece of news, and yet it does not prove
that Roach is an honest man, or that his
dealings with Robson and Chandler
were not corrupt. 1t has been figured
out that of the $30O,OOO,OOO spent on the
navy since the war, with the result of
making it much smaller and less efficient
than it was in the beginning, not less
than $4,000, ,000was stolen or wasted. By
the word wasted" is meant the expendi-
ture of money which the government
representatives and the contractors knew
was not likely to produce anything of
value to the service.
John Roach has had wonderful oppor-
tunities to get rich. When Robson was
Secretary of the Navy it was common
thing for him to repair war vessel at
some navy yard, find that it would not
float, and then sell it to Roach for cent
and quarter pound for the iron in it.
Roach has broken up fifteen or twenty
American war vessels, costing the people
millions of dollars, on those terms, and
the Herald will not be surprised if he
owned $50,000,000 worth of merchant
ships, besides some other things. CHI
cdgO Herald
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
THE APPROACHING FALL.

The scene in the House of Commons
yesterday, after the explanation by Mr..
Childers of his statement concerning the
proposed tax on spirits, was one of wild
confusion. The House and the country
were in a temper to ask just such ques-
tion as Sir Hicks Beach asked, why it was
necessary for a Liberal Government to
increase the tax on spirits to meet an
extraordinary expenditure of GlOO,O ,OOO, 900.
1t was but natural that such a question
should have been greeted with loud and
prolonged cheers from the Opposition.
No doubt Sir Michael denounced the
proposed duty on spirits so fiercely as he
did an account of the recent demonstra-
tons by workingmen in London against
any increased duty. The suggestion for
an increase of duty on tea was a mere
subterfuge to show that there was no op-
position to increasing the revenue.
Had the Government proposed to raise,
or rather place a duty on tea, it is
quite possible that Sir Micheal would
have cried for higher duty on spirits.
Tea is drunk in England by the quiet,
sober class, the class that does not 90 to
Trafalgar Square or Hyde Park to demon
strate and protest, while spirits are
drunk by the workingman and the rough.
idle class, the class that always prefers
to do anything to working. A proposed
duty on tea would have been discussed
in the papers, and would never have
been the cause OF any outdoor demonstra-
tion.
The Premier explained that the pro-
posed duty was necessary to raise funds
on account of the danger which
threatened the Empire, and stated that
the method proposed was deemed the
best. When the vote was taken, the
Government lost by majority of twelve.
The result greatly elated the Tories and
Parnellites to such degree that Lord
Randolph Churchill and Mr.. Parnell
jumped on their seats and waved their
hats. Lord Randolph and the Parnellites
cannot always expect to be in such en-
thusiastic accord in the future, if the
Gladstone Ministry shall be replaced by
a Conservative one, as they were yester-
day on the defeat of the Government.
Mr.. Parnell can care nothing for
the duty on spirits, his sole desire
being to further the interests of Ireland.
His ideas of the manner in which to fur
ther those interests will differ very much |
rom the ideas of the Tories. The Tories
have always favored coercion and a
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
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SALT LAKE CITY,
UTAH.

General Banking Business Transacted.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and
sold
Special attention given to the purchase and
sale of ores and bullion.
Returns for collections promptly made at cur
rent rates.
Telegraphic transfers made and commercial
and travellers credits issued, available in the
principal cities of the world.
Having in addition to our Bank correspond
ents, an Express Agency in almost every
town West Of the Rocky Mountains, affords us
special facilities for making collections and
executing commissions.
Accounts of Banks and Bankers, mercantile
and manufacturing firms, corporations, min
ing companies, stock growers and individual,
received on favorable terms.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09

stringent crimes act in Ireland, and the
near expiration of the Coercion Act has
almost brought about division IN the
Cabinet, the Radicals maintaining that
the present satisfactory condition OF Ire
land is owing to leniercy, while the
more conservative portion has maintained
that that act must be rescinded or else
there will be repetition OF the crimes
and outrages of three years ago. Mr.
Foster resigned for this view, and Earl
Spencer is a strong advocate OF the
same view; while the never ceaslng
blunder of the Ministry has been Its
endeavor to avoid harsh measures IN
Ireland, where harsh measures alone
could accomplish anything, said the
Opposition. Mr.. Parnell will be more
implacable opponent to a Conservative
Ministry than he has been to the Liberal
Ministry. The indications are that Mr.
Gladstone will resign, but if he does, 1t
is safe to say that no Tory Ministry that
NAV succeed him will 60 into office with
the whole country so unanimously sup
porting it as when the present Ministry
succeeded the Earl of Beaconsfeld.
1t would be the irony OF fate if Mr.. Glad
stone should be driven from power in his
old age as was Beaconsfeld, and like him,
die in disgrace.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
more. The blue-bell may sing the funeral
knell of the human race.
NORMAN MACLEOD.
Healthy Decoration.

In a recent lecture on Healthy Deco
ration in the Home," G. Aitchison, an
English architect, said, among other
things: Nothing is better to prevent the
permanent location of dirt than really
good hard wood polished parquet; but
if that be found too expensive, then let
the Joints of the boards be well scraped
out, filled with wood when wide, and let
all the Joints be puttied. And let the
whole floor be painted or vanished; dust
is then more easily and completely swept
I'D. and wet flannel cleans the floor
but with parquet perhaps a washing once
year is enough with clean sweeping,
and the wholesome application OF turpen-
tine and beeswaX.
Next to polished wood, tiles, marble,
glass and marble mosaics, the best wall
finish is oil paint, which can be made
agreeable to the eye by simple fiat tints
of harmonious color, or it can be orna-
mented with floral or arabesque orna-
ment, or with the highest triumphs OF
the painters art, and this last will not
only mark the owners real taste for art,
but will prevent the accumulation OF dust
on the picture frames. Flock papers
should never be used except when they
are painted over, as they form a natural
receptacle for dust, and seem to absorb
the greatest quantity of foulness from the
air, and when the flock is not dyed Gin
grain" whenever they are touched some
of the coloring matter comes off, and is
mixed with the air of the room. Mr..
Aitchison was greatly inclined to recon-
mend the vanishing of all papers, so
that they could be cleaned with sponge,
! but it was absolutely essential to varnish
them in nurseries Children will lick the
papers and neither lead, copper, nor
arsenic can be good for them, and neither
| size nor whiting are substances you would
give to children without medical advice.
Beauty of form and of color have a
very important effect upon our health.
All of us can hear witness to the dullness
of room of enc color, in which we have
| to sit when we are without occupation,
and the desire we have for some beauti-
| full and intricate pattern to relieve the
monotony. When a room is adorned
with pictures, we have not merely occu-
patton, but delight, and those higher
emotions which are only excited by the
fine arts. When we choose wallpapers,
those that are more beautiful in form and
color are to be preferred, 1--WE should
however, satisfy ourselves that the pat
terms on the paper with which our rooms
are hung have not a look of motion.
Nothing is more distressing than to be in
a room where the pattern of paper
seems always crawling like bag oI
worms. 1t would be we'll if we could
have all things in beautiful form, ele-
gantly simple, and all the colors har-
monious and restrained; these great
qualities seem to impart to us the feelings
of self-restraint, dignity and repose.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
THE FIRE.

Perhaps few were so anxious about last
nights fire as the proprietors OF the DEM
oCRAT. 1t was a very close call for this
paper, and for all the buildings around.
To those who are at all familiar with the
condition of the buildings around here it
has been wonder there has been no fire
heretofore. Few stoves are so well pre-
pared for lighting in the morning as this
block. Near this office there is an old liv-
ery stable, the back yard of which
seems to be specially prepared for taking
fire. The shanties and small buildings
at the back of the places which We're
burned are old wooden affairs that are as
dry as tinder boxes. They are within the
fire limits too. Now whose fault is it that
such condition of things exists? The
fault of the city officials. The inspection
of buildings, which are erected within the
fire limits, by the city inspector of build
ings is mere farce, and any thing
can be put up if the fee for
inspecting is paid. The building in which
the DEMOCRAT is published is claptrap
affair, and should never have been
allowed to be erected; and yet this is a
first-class building when compared to
some. But the danger to the town arises
chiefly from the amount of rubbish of an
infiammable character which is allowed
to accumulate at the back of business
blocks. Such accumulations are against
the ordinances, and the Marshal
knows of them, or should, but still
they continue to exist, and probably
will continue in the future as in the past.
To have these things done away with
would not be one cents expense to the
city, as the owners and occupants of such
premises can be compelled to remove the
danger. The trouble is laxity and indif-
ference on the part of the officers whose
duty it is to see to snch matters 1t may
be that if the officers were to rigidly en-.
force the laws some would complain very
loudly, and say they were hard, and that
times were so dull that they could
not afford 10 go to the expense
it would involve. Let them COM
plain; and if times are so dull
that they cannot stand the expense, let
them close their places and devote the
proceeds to cleaning up their premises.
Not merely are one or two threatened
every time fire occurs, but the entire
business portion of the city is in danger.
Such regulations are necessary for the
common safety, and have no element of
treason or persecution in them, and such
being the case should be rigidly enforced
against all, no matter who they are or
what their business may be. Tonight
the City Council meets, and they should
give the matter immediate and serious
attention.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
The Rlue.BeII.

l have just received some merry
thoughts from blue-bell, which out O.
gratitude [ record:
How long has that bell been rinoinp IFS
fragrant music, and swinging forth its un.
heard melodies among brackens and
brlars, and primroses and woodroof, and
that world of poetic wild scents and forms
so many-so beautiful-which a tam
gled bank over a tottering burn amono
the leafy woods discloses? Spirits moro
beautiful than fairies behold those scenes
or they would be waste. That bell was
ringing merrily in the breeze when Adam
and Eve were married. 1t chimed its
dlrge over Abel, and has died and sprung
up again while Nineveh and Babylon have
come and gone, and empires have lived
and died forever! Solomon, in all his
glory, was not like thee.
What an evidence have l in this blue
dropping flower, of the regularity and en-
durance and Gods will since creations
dawn Amidst all revolutions of heaven
and earth; hurricanes and earthuuakes !.
floods and fires; invasions and disper-
slons signs in the sun, moon and stars
perplexity and distress of nations; moth
ing has happened to injure this fragile
blue-bell. 1t has been preserved through
out all generations. The forces of this
stormy and troubled earth, which have
rent rocks, have been so beautifully ad-
justed from age to age, that this head.
though drooping, has not been broken.
and this stalk, though frail, still stands
erect. This is central peace subsisting at
the heart of endless agitation"
The blue-bell swung in breezes tenn
pered to its strength centuries before the
OF Japheth spied the chalky cliffs
OF Dover. 1t has been called by many a
name from the days of the painted war
nor to the days OF Burns; but it has ever
been the same. 1t will sing on with its
own woodland music to all who can hear
its spirit song, until time shall be no
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09

The telegraph announces that the
Gladstone Cabinet has resigned, and it is
said that the Tories will not accept office
but they will most likely. If they do, it
is safe to say that Afghan affairs will be
reopened, and if they are, such reopen
ing on new basis may lead to serious
European complications. The Tories have
no such leader among them as Disreali
was, and in their wild career may wreck
themselves and greatly injure the EN-
pire for which they have protested such
solicitude. The developments of the
next few days will be anxiously awaited.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
FREE TRADE COLONIES.

The Alta California of Saturday last
has a very good article on "The Test OF
Free Trade" The occasion for the ar
ticle was the report of Consul Griffin, OF
SYDNEY. The test has been made in two
colonies, Victoria and New South Wales.
Here were two colonies, new and sparsely
settled, seeking emigrants and commerce,
not glutted with wealth, nor become
naughty with wealth and prosperity.
Protection, it has been claimed,
is the guaranty of peace and pros
perity in new countries, while free
trade if of benefit to any country, could
only be so to an old and well established
country where all things have been re-
duced to the cheapest and simplest
methods of manufacture. Protection is
the friend of the poor man free trade OF
the rich man. What have these two sys-
TENS done for these two colonies? Vic
toria has protection and her tariff imposes
an ad rdIorena duty of from ten to twenty
five per cent. on some ninety-three diff
ferent articles, and there is a specific
duty on some two hundred and thirty
seven articles. 1t is said that some of
these specific duties are so high as
to be prohibitory. The Victorian
tariff is extremely complicated, while
that of New South Wales is very simple.
During the decade just past, the popula-
ton of the free trade colony Of New
South Wales has increased forty-nine per
cent, while the population of the pro-
tectionist colony Of Victoria has only in
creased eighteen per cent. During the
same decade the imports and exports OF
New South Wales have increased over
one hundred per cent, while there was
an increase of less than ten per cent. in
both the imports and exports of Victoria.
Many things of home growth and con-
sumed at home are cheaper in Victoria
than in New South Wales, but this is
doubtless owing to the fact that labor is
cheaper in Victoria than in New South
Wales. This fact would seem to COM
pletely reverse the theory of the protec-
tionists that labor is best paid where
there is high protective tariff. In these
two colonies, both young, both unde-
veloped, the one which has adopted free
trade pays the higher compensation to
the workingman. The resources and in
dustries of the two colonies are very
much the same. In 1888 the value of
the exports from New South Wales to
Great Britain was S,2S7 ,403 pounds ster-
ling, while the value of the imports from
Great Britain was S,026, 179 pounds ster-
ling. The value of the exports from Vic
toria to Great Britain for the same year
was 7,l03,03S pounds sterling; while the
value of the exports fromGreat Britain into
Victoria for the same year was 6,497, ,747
pounds sterling. The staple exports from
both countries is wool, and in 1883 the
amount of wool exported from New South
Wales exceeded the export from Victoria
1900, ,796 lbs. This is an important show
ing, and from two colonies each choosing
the line of policy in regard to trade each
deemed best, and free trade has out
stripped protection. AS the Alta says:
"Here are nuts for protectionists to crack,
and We advise them to lose no time in
trying their jaws upon them"
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
CORRESPONDENT:

New York, J. B. Colgate & Co.
Omaha, Omaha National Bank.
Chicago, First National Bank
San Francisco, Bank of California.
Denver Colorado National Bank.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
T. R. JONES. S. J. LYNN
T. R. JONES & Co..
BANEN

Transact a General Banking Business IN
all its Branches
Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Exchange.
Careful attention given to Collections, and re-
mittanceS made on day of payment.
Long Loans made on City Real Estate at low
rates of interest.
Special attention given to the Selling of Ores
and Bullion, of which Consignments are
solicited.
Advances made on ore. Base Bullion Gold
and Silver bars shipped for refining.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

WILKES BooTH's REcKLEssEFss.-
Robert Z. Graham, the young comedi.
an, began life as call-boy. Il was
at Ford's Holly Street Theatre in
Washington, and it was in the final
days Of the war. 1t was at Ford's
Theatre that Lincoln was assassinated
and Graham was in the wings on that
memorable night. Booth was a great
favorite with the younger members of
the company. With psouliarities that
made him distinct character apart
from his confessedly great abilities as
an actor, and actions that more fire.
quently suggested insanity than in
telligent comprehension Of the life
that surrounded him, he was never
theless at all times and in all places
the affable gentleman and the brilli-
ant man Of genius. He was not on
the bill on the night of the assasina-
ton, but shortly after the opening Of
the first act Of the American Cousin"
came into the wings and stood watch
ing the play, apparently in the best
Of spirits. Turning, he caught the
call boys eye.
"Ah, Bob, is that you," he said
with a little laugh-"how are you
fixed ?"
"Oh. pretty good, faltered the boy. !
In,hisy outhful Imagination the mighty |
genius before him had not yet ceased
to be an object of alteration. He
trembled from very reverence.
Booth diyed in his pocket and
fsbed up his purse.
Heres a present for you"
r He threw a fve-dollar piece into
the call-boy' hand. and, before the
astonished genius in embryo could
demonstrate, had disappeared behind
an interior.
Within twenty minutes John Wilkes
Booth was an assassin and the Presi-
dent of the United States was lying
on the carpeted floor Of his box, bleed
ing to death.--Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.