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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-14
New York { ylv Essl,ad Railroad.

Take the best train between Boston and
New York. leaving either city at p. NJ, ar
irving at the other a, Q p. NJ. Runs on time
Week Days and Sundays. every day In the
year. june20d3m
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Wanted.

VIyANTED-25 girls to work on corsets. Apply
w at once to HASKELL q LIPPINCOTT.
Augusta, Aug. 10, 1885, Cushnoc Corset Works.
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Hosfurd's Acid Phosphate

The Hosford Almanac and Cook Book
mailed free on application to the Rumford
Chemical Works, Providence, r. l.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-14

Russia has now force of about forty
thousand soldiers in the Transcaspian
country. The regiments are widely scat
tered. and ii would be difficult to concen-
trate even half of them at one point and
with the present garrison at Herat it would
be folly to move upon that city such 9
force, as English troops could reach there
from India in less than forty days, and
the Afghans could hold out against 8
much larger force.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-14

Whether or not there is a great UNI
known lake called Mistassini in Canada,
larger than Lake Superior, is one of those
things which no Canadian can apparently
find out. There are all kinds of stories
about it and now an officer of the Domin-
ion Survey sends home and says that it is
a little lake after all. only l2o miles
around He is promptly met by the as
sertion that he cannot have found the real
Mistassini and in the face of such state
ments as Father Albanels' the report is
hardly acceptable. Yet an official sur
veyor would hesitate to forward a report
like this unless he were entirely sure of its
correctness. 1t would hurt his rep
utation not little.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-14

The bank reserves have begun to de-
cline, as is natural at this season, so that
the extent of the remarkable accumula-
ton OF money during the summer can
probably be defined. At the highest
point the surplus reached S64,724, 100,
August /, and was then So .000, 900 above
that of the same week last year. which in
turn was larger by SS,000,000 than that
of the same week in any previous year.
The reserve reached its maximum, $16l.-
1890, July IS. and was then about
S57 600, 900 above that of the same week
last year. and $63 100000 above that of
any other year at the same date
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-14

NOR SALE.-Houses in different parts of the
IL city, ranging in price from $3.50 to $500e. Also
a desirable store on Water street. Also good farms
in this city and elsewhere. Apply at the office of
f. s. FOGG,
next south American Express office. feb26tf
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Lost.

r OST-Between Squirrel Island and Fairfield.
IL Me-, a diamond pin Will finder please return
to W. Il. F. TOWER, Fairfield, Me-, and recrive re-
ward. aug5d2ws
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NOR SALE-The homeste of the late Deane
II Pray Apply to E. 6. BRIGGS, or S. C.
WHITEHOUsE, Administrator. junel6
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Daily Eenntbtf 5onrmal.
uAueusta, Friday Morning, Aug. IA.

The WEEKLY gESyEsE j1vsyA!
Published at augusta. Me-. eUery
Wednesday By
s0raSuo DC Son.
TERMS:
$500 for a year.
0l.OO for six months.
SOC. for three months.
Tie DAILY HsSysssc JOURNAL
Is issued every morning except Sunday. at
$500 year.
$3.50 for six months,
0l.75 for three months,
60 cents per month
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ONLY first quai,y nl.YCLE at a nominal price.
Has no Competitor for Quality, Workmanship, Fin
ish or Price in England America. Ball Bearings
to wheels. Hollow Forks and Backbone. Price, SO
inch, S10750 Finish, enamel.
THE CELEBRATED LIGHT ROADSTER. The
only light weight machine that is thoroughly strong
and able to stan the rough road without injury
RUDGE TRICYCLES ana IA DENIS.
For further information send for Catalogue or call
upon q. +. DUNrON, Sole Agent for kennebec
County, Augusta, Me. Examine sample Light
Roadster at Fairbanks Gun Store. mayldtf
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For Safe.

NOR sALE-Ar bargain, desirable cottage at
H Richmond Camp Ground. Enquire of Fred q.
Kinsman, Augusta, or Superintendent Of Camp
Ground. augiidu
Aupust 1885,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A FIRE in Charleston, Mo-, Tuesday
destroyed business houses and stocks
valued at $25 600; insured for $12, 600
THE extensive pork and lard pack ing
house of Washington Butchers Sons,
Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $3.50, 000
THE Presbyterian church at Shippens-
burg, Pa, valued at $4,000 was burned
yesterday.
THE fire in the Dorrance shaft, near
Wiikasbarre, Pa, has reached the coal,
which is row burning, and to extin-
guish the flames the mine must be
flooded.
CONTINUED rains have caused an
overflow of the Kaskaskia river. which
has flooded the bottoms in the Shelby
Vile, Ill i, section, carried away fences,
nd seriously damaged the corn crop.
JAMES PRIsK and William Henry
Clark were instantly killed by an ex-
plosion in an underground Copper
Falls mine, near Calumet, Mich. Clark
was literally blown to pieces,
THE weaving, dying and spinning de-
partments and engine and boiler rooms
of the Randleman cotton factory, in
Randolph, N. c., W ere destroyed by fire
causing loss of $3.50, goo, and throwing
ZOO persons out Of employment.
THE Artic Ice Company's ice houses
at Bath, Me-, nine in number large
boarding house and work house CON
tanning valuable ice cutting machines,
were destroyed by IRE. Fifteen thou
sand tons OF ice were destroyed. Loss,
$4,000.
At Tarentum, Allegheny county, Pa,
Henry Altmeyers three sons, aged Z, 5,
end years. respectively, were terribly
burned by the explosion Of can Of re-
fined petroleum. The children obtained
possession of the oil in some manner,
and were playing with it in "a old out
house.
CLARK's livery stable, in the west
end, at Washington, d. c., was destroy.
ed by fire. 1t was one of the largest
livery stables in Washington, and
known as the arlington Stables" 1t
contained seyenty-seven horses, and
twenty-seven were suffocated. The rect
were turned loose in the street. A num-
of carriages and twenty-eight tons Of
hay were burned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25

A NEW YORK HERALD correspondent
say Of the postoffiee department TIE
government will inside of five yesra not
only have to double the size of the post
office department, but will have TO erect
two, if not three, other department
buildings. The business of the govern
ment has grown more rapidly during
the past fifteen years in proportion to
its population than it did during the
thirty years that preceded 1t.
JUDGE McCUE, Solicitor of the
Treasury, has given an opinion to Sec
rotary Manning that shad or behring's
caught in Canadian waters by American
fishermen in boats of less than five
tons burden can be admitted to the
United States free of duty. A question
rs 10 whether these fish were dutiable
under the general laws of the country
arose from the fact that the Washing
Itsn reciprocity treaty of 1871 will expire
on the 1st prox.
THE First Comptroller of the Treas
ury will give hearing next week to
General Carman, late chief clerk of the
Department of Agriculture, in defense
of the expenditures for seeds under
Commissioner Loring, the accounts for
which were recently rejected by the
First Auditor.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, of the navy
sent a letter to Attorney General Gar
land, accompanied by the report of the
board appointed to examine the new
dispatch boat Dolphin, which has re-
Gently undergone n series of trials to
test her capacity to do the work requir
ed under the specifications. The Secre-
tary asks the Attorney General to ex-
anime the report and advise him what
his duties in the premises are.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
notified the custodians of public build
ings throughout the country that tha
appropriation for the payment of ass
istant custodians and janitors for the
current year is exhausted, and that
they must incur no expense of that
character for the remainder of the
month unless employees will take their
chances of an appropriation for this
purpose by Congress. The Secretary
ADDS: "With regard to the appropria-
ton for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1885, you are informed that owing to
the limited amount appropriated, re-
duction in the expenditures of at least
30 per cent will be absolutely necessary.
You will, therefore, report to the depart
ment at once the names of employees
y no can be dropped from the rolls, to
gether with such reductions as may be
practicable in the com pensation of 9TH
ers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
--LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.


w. S. NICHOLSON & Co., cotton fac
tors at New Orleans have failed for $780,
coo.
TIE cranberry crop IF Wisconsin
will fall 30 per cent below that # last
year.
President ANDREW WHITE, of Cor
nell University, presented his resigna-
ton to the trustees Wednesday.
{ HEvsNTEEN-YEAR locusts have put in
an appearance in the vicinity of Flint,
Mich, and Elkhart. md
TEN millions of bananas arrived in
\ New York on one day last week, and
within three days 100000 pineapples
arrived.
! FREDERICK DOUGLAS has been invited
to take editorial charge of the Globe,
by the cOlored mems organ in New
York city.
THE strike of the glass workers at
Sharpsburg Pa, has collapsed, and the
men resume work at the reduction. The
struggle lasted six months.
SMALL PoX of 2 virulent type has
broken out among the Russians in Bon
homme county d. T. The settlement
is about twenty-eight miles from Yank-
ton.
ADDIE WALKER, aged thirteen years,
walking with a companion az Talbot
ton, was frightened to death by col
ored girl, who pretended to be insane.
MRS. O. DICKEEMAN, Of Rockford,
H., has become insane over the mind
cure treatment, and imagines herself
the mother of Christ
BUSINESS is crowded so in the post
Office department in Washington that
another building has been rented by the
government for the money order
branch.
Ar the celebration at Woodstock,
Conn, on the Fourth of July, Senators
Sherman and Logan will deliver adj
dressta and Maurice Thompson of Indi-
ana and Joqui.n Miller will read poems,
TIE comm encement exercises of In
eiana university were closed with the
marriage of William NJ. Spangler, class
of 80, and Miss Ida Lowell, class of "a,
librarian and assistant of the univer-
sity.
A CYCLONE struck the northwest
portion OF Beloit, Wisconsin, early
Monday mor1lng, demollshlng barns
and loveling trees and fences. At New
ark, Wisconsin, the storm also wreck
ed several structures.
THE starving people OF Plymouth, w.
Va, appealed for help, and commit.
tee was appointed at Philadelphia to
visit Low Gap, and $1,000 was placed
in their hands for use.
WOMEN are now admitted TO 100 Of
the colleges in the United States, and
that is the reason Vassar college hag of
late years suffered somewhat financially.
1t used to have almost a monopoly Of
women.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
WASHINGTON

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE
MILLER was partially overcome by the
heat at his Office in thC Treasury, and is
suffering acutCly.
THE Postmaster General has decided
that white men who are members OF
Indian tribes are Eligible for appoint
meut as postmasters.
THERE are at present 1870 special
agents of the pension bureau whose
term of efiice will expire on June 30
next, bat the new appropriation bill
allows their reaDpointment for another
year alta reduction of salary from $1,000
to 81 AGO.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has re-
celved o. telegram stating that $l0,500
was fcuad upon the person OF Hibbs,
the defaultiug Postmaster of Lewiston,
Idaho, who was captured in the British
provinces.
THE naval board appointed to ex-
anime the Dolphin VIII in few days
make . formal report to the Secretal y.
of the Navy of the result of the trial
trip to sea of that vessel on Thursday
last. The Secretary will then decide
whether any further test of the vessel
is necessary before she is accepted.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
CRIME.

r THREE notorious cattle thieves have
been hanged by vigilance committee
in Indian Territory.
JOHN a. VANGELDER, receiving teller
of the Union National bank, of New
York, has gone to Canada with S33, 600
of the banks funds.
A BOY six years old, in Paterson, n.
j., deliberately burned a younger play
mate to death last week.
GEORGE ANDERSON, who shot John
Kerwin on April IL, was yesterday cor
victed of manslaughter, the penalty be-
ing fixed at twenty years imprison-
ment.
ISAAC M. HIBBs the ab5oonding ex.
postmaster of Lewiston, Idaho, has bsen
arrested in British Columbia.
ARTHUR +. MARSH, who embszzled
SAG, 600 of Koch, Sons & Co.'s money in
New York, returned from England and
was arrested.
FRED YAgDRI, keeper of a house of
ill-fame at Frankfort, Mich, fatally
shot a lumberman named Armstrong.
The murderer was ARE sted.
AT Carbondale, Penn, George Cuff ,
annoyed at bantering remark made
by Richard Duffy, with whom he had
been drinking and playing cards, shot
and instantly killed him. Cuff is is in
jail.
JAMES /. DAVIS, who shot and cut Dr..
Lucas in Lincoln, Neb., May 3, nearly
killing him, because Of tbs doctors al
legged unprofessional conduct with Mrs.
Davis, was acquitted OF the charge OF
attempted murder ON the ground OF IN
sanity.
IN the criminal court in Baltimore
Tuesday Judge Stewart sentenced Henry
A. Myers to one year in Jail and twenty
lashes, for beating his wife, SOphy
Myers. If the sentence rs carried out
Myers will be tbs first White man t.
stand at the whipping post IN Maryland
under the new law.
LOUIS HAMAIEI., son of Policeman
Hammel, was arrested in Cleveland foI
attempting to burn one of the largest
business blocks on Euclid avenue. Five
times recently fire was discovered II
the store Of C. a. Setter, One of these
CONGREGATIONS damaged Setzer's stock
$25 00O. Hammel, an employee abou
the place, was arrested for the crime.
AT Raleigh, n. c., Judge Avery has
sentenced Joe Howard, Thomas Gee anC
Tom McNiu all colored to be hanged
June %. Howard killed l.. c. Black
man, after a quarrel about the purchase
of land by Blackman from Howard
Gee, wretched cripple, beat cut viii
an nix the brains of an Abandoned white
woman, with whom he had lived. Nc
/ Neil had a dispute with his brother
Simon at a festival and shot him dead
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25

and the terrific explosions seemed .
the terrified people as the crack y;
doom. have been credibly informs5
by an old resident of Richmond tba,
about fiftr people, chiefly aiiin"
women, died that hight of sheer frlpbts
Then the tobacco factories. nao.
Rockets, were set on fire, and soon
the whole heavens appeared to be IN
a blaze.
Before this time, however, at abont
II o'clock, Jefferson Davis. mis- cam
net and other confederate officials left
the city on train which, it has bean
charged, Gen. Lee had ordered to ba
filled with provisions to be transport.
ed to Amelia Court House, on the line
Of mis- intended retreat, and the want
of which caused an earlier disintepra.
ton of his army than would havn
otherwise occurred. The party tool,
with them all the gold Ia the banks
and in the confederate treasury
About the same hour the state gov.
eminent authorities, iacludlng the
legislative solcns, adjourned to
packetboat on the canal, and thev
prudently had hitched on a double
force of mules in order to get awav
faster down TO Lynchburg town
Governor Extra Billy Smith, howy
ever, and few others dlstrusted the
raging canal" locomotion, and went
on horseback down the towpath in the
same direction.
Its needless to relate how, after the
Confederate troops had retreated from
The city, other houses caught fire from
the blazing tobacco factories. There
being no attempt to check the fire.
aHd the flames being spread by incen-
diaries intent upon robbery, the
whole business portion of the city was
soon a literal sea of fire. The people
auxiously awaited the advent of the
Federal troops, expecting utter des-
>truction of the city would then ensue,
and when the head of column of negro
regiment of cavalry, with drawn
sabers, came moving up toward the
capitol square, the white people fed
to their houses in utter despair. If
ever a people in the last extremity
were joyfully surprised by an I'M
hoped for deliverance, then the citi-
zens of Richmond were. No sooner
had the Federals entered than they
went to work to put out the fires and
to restore order. The troops iusulted
no one, entered no private houses and
robbed nobody. The General in com
mand issued a proclamation that pri'
vate property would be respected and
protection given to all who behaved
themselves. The inhabitants breathed
freely once more, after months of
narrowing suspense.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
A DIXIE PARDON.
Saved for His Wife and Seven little
CbiIdren's Sake
Philadelphia News

81 was Jefferson Davis private
messenger from the telegraph office
during the war" said Jake Semon, Of
the Virginia tobacco store, opposite
the postofIice. Every telegram pass.
ed through my hands. I received all
the messages from Uncle Bob Lee,
Judah p Benjamin, Q. @. Memming-
err, and all those great leaders, and
many are the queer things / could tell
I'll give you one incident l was a
Christmas eve night, cold and stormy.
The office was to close at 1890. 1t
was close on that time when tele-
gram came rafting in from Fred-
ericksburg. 1t was from Robert e.
Lee. saying the confederates had
fought on Marye's hill and lost seven
guns, but that he would retake them
in the morning. Go long said |
he won't do it. Yes he will, said
the operator; wait till ask the other
operator He did so, and the reply
came, You bet, and the enthusiastic
operator drummed out Dixie over the
line.
II was getting ready to go home
when the operator in charge said
Stay, there is an important message
coming for the president. 1t must
have an answer tonight if the office
has to stay open till daylight. l
grumbled. 1t was Christmas eve,
and | could hear the boys in the street
iubilating and / could see the chill
dren carrying home dolls. You know
what they were-only raw cotton
twisted up into shape. said / would
not stay, and was going, when the
expected message came: To His FIX
celency, President Jefferson Davis
/ am going to be shot at seven in the
morning for desertion. Pardon me
for the sake of my poor wife and
seven little children.
JOHN RYNER.
"You bet | took the message and
ran to old Jeff's house. / saw the
bright lights and heard music. I
rang the bell. A little adjutant came
out An important message for the
president, | said. He took it. and in
few minutes brought it back. Re-
ferred to Adjt Gen. Cooper, he had
written on it. [ burst INTO tears, be.
] cause J. KNOW OlQ NDbpCI NOuiNn L
pardon the man. Still, took it and
ran through the sleet and snow to
/ Cooper's house. An old negro woman
opened the door, which nearly knock
ed her down, the wind blew in so.
An awful night, marster, she said.
Yes, marmy, said I; let me see the
general quick. She said, I don't
know as I kin; he's just at dinner.
But this is important, | said
She let me in, and just then | saw
old Gen. Cooper, a tall, old man,
with long white hair, going up the
stairs from the dining into a
group Of young ladies. That was my
time. So, rushing up, | said: "A
very important message, sir Of
course, the ladies gathered around,
and said oh, what is it, The old
general read it, and you should have
| heard the ladies cry. They all begged
him 10 let the man go. He didn't
say a word, but wrote on the back Of
the message, John Ryner is repriev~
ed. You can bet | didn't lose any
time sending that message"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
An English Tax on Marriages.
Letter from "A Married Woman" to the Editor
of the London Times


of the London Times.
Have you a corner to bestow on
grievance of married women2 Our
complaint is that our incomes are
treated as our husbands incomes for
the purpose of taxation. Thus, if the
united income of husband and wife
be ESQ per annnm, they now lose
Ell shillings and pence by income
tax; whereas if the same two persons
were not married they would not be
taxed unless the income of. each am-
ounted to ESQ. Two partners, two
brothers, or any other two persons
living together, except husband and
wife, are not taxed unless the income
of each amounts tie ESQ We should
like to have the law altered so that
married couples should not be taxed
unless their joint income amounts to
$500. This would only be putting
them on a level with bachelors and
spinsters. The tax as at present lev>
led, is simply tax on matrimony.
Perhaps such tax is thought desirable
by those who have the making of the
laws, in order TO check 100 great in
diligence IN the luxury. But, If IN
tended as deterrent, would it not DE
more effective if levied under It's true
rame, and should it not be levied on
those whose are below ESQ, even
more than those whose incomes are
above9 1t is, fear, hopeless, espec-
tally in the face of deficit of els, GEO,
600, to expect that we poor women,
who have neither vote nor influence,
should see the law altered. Mr.. Child
ers can not spare the items that we
contribute at the cost of many privat-
ions. Our very poverty, which max
es the taxation fall so heavily on us,
prevents US from obtaisiRg redress.
But if you will kindly give publicity
to this letter it luay do good, as tadds
one more argument in favor OF Mr.,
Punch's excellent advice to those alb
out to marry.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25

The nuGaber of persons killed by
wild beasts and poisonous serpents in
India in 1888 was % 905, against %,
125 in 1882; 20, 057 deaths were due to
the bites OF poisonous animals; 9S5
persons were devoured by tigers, 2S7
by wolves and 217 by leopards
The loss of cattle amounted to AZ, 478
animals, and increase Of III over the
preceding year. While most of the
deaths of human beings was due to
the bite Of snakes only l GA cattle
were thus poisoned. More than three
quarters of the deaths took place in
Bengal and IN the provinces Of the
northwest; 10, $50 dangerous animals
were killed during the year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25

COMMITTEES to assist Italian emf
grants have been formed at Genoa,
Naples and Palermo These agencies
have been established through the
efforts of the Propaganda at Rome,
and auxiliary aid committees arc being
organized by the Catholic Bishops Of
New York, Baltimore ana elsewhere.
An Italian emigrant may need some
help to get out Of Italy but when he
reaches Chicago he is pretty well
able to take care OF himself, if some Of
his countrymen don't murder him,
pack him in a trunk and ship him
back to the east again.