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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-04
City Debt.

The following is the official statement of
the debt of our city:
Indebtedness Of the City of Augusta
March, 1884, per cent loan of S64,
due from July, 1885. to 1888, $40, 100 90
eper cent Improvement loan,due Feb.
18th, 1877, 2O2, 800 90
Q per cent funded loan, due from July
!, 1855, to 1905, $1,000 90
per cent trust fund. Lithgow Library, 10000 co
st. Marks Home, 1000 90
Sanford Legacy. 1900 90
Floating debt, less collections, 1900 90
$40. 400 90
The following were the city Liabilities less
resources in March, 1874 5000, 027.72. De-
Quoting this amount from $40, 400 90. the
debt of the city in March, 1884, and we have
$37 1872 % IA the increase of the debt during
the Ring rule, since March, l873.-Nep AGE.
Feb. 81. 1885.
There never was more gross or willful
misrepresentation than the one contained in
the above paragraph The writer of it knew
it to be false when he wrote it, Let us look
at the facts.
The city debt, Feb. |. 1885, was $40, 400 90
Less Resources.
Unsolicited taxes, $20,4299 %
Cash on hand 2s7q 80 23,309 2s
Net city debt. $4,000 p
Qaite difference.
In March. 1874, the city debt, was $685., O4o 81
Less Resources.
Uncollected taxes, $2l,737 80
Cash on hand, 3.S5e OF
Note OF z. W. Morton, 2g6 90 1888 80
Net city debt $3li,o57 rs
Excess of debt Feb. /, 1885. over debt
of March A. 1874, $6,0S3 A
On the 18th of March, 1877, Hon. Charles
Il. Nash was inauguraied Mayor, and in his
address said our city liabilities are 1916, TO-
6s; resources, Sl9,214 81; net city debt,
1926 500 81. The truth is Plaisted, Morton
& Co. lied, deliberately lied when they as
serted that the debt of this city had increased
between March 1874 and March 1884 $751;
3729S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-04

PERsONAL.-Mr Geo. Smith, of the firm Of
Smith & Blackstone, Portland, Me, recon-
mends Roderic's Cough Balsam as the best
remedy for coughs and colds, and saws be
always keeps it in the house.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-04
PETITIONS, BILLS, ETC. PRESENTED AN
REFERRED.

BY Mr.. Mayo of Hampden-Bil an act to
legalize the doings of certain constables in
the town of Plymouth, but which referred to
the Committee on Legal Affairs.
BY Mr.. Hale of Portland-Bill an act to
authorize the County Commissioners of Cum
berland county to erect county building, and
for other purposes, which was referred to the
Cumberland county delegation.
By Mr.. Littlefield of Rockland-Bill an
act relativ e to corporations and changing the
record of organization, which was referred
to the Committee on Judiciary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-04
FINALLY PASSED

Resolve in favor of schools in Bowerbank
an unincorporated place in the county of Pts
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Some people give Gen. Grant credit
for managing the business of tue Unit
ed States well, as General and as Pres
ident but he mas never shown any
ability to manage his own business. If
his recent failure in New York did not
prove It, the very fact that bis friends
invested the $250O0O they collected for
him, SO that he could handle only the
revenue from it, shows that they mis-
trusted his ability to manage for him
self. This revenue is $4,000 annually !;
and though Gen. Grant peddled Vege-
tables or wood for aliving at one time
before the war, he is now not able to
live on $4,000 a year, and they are try
ing to get Congress to give him a pen
sion Of $4,000 or $4,000 year. It
seems to us that the people of the Unit
ed States have done enough for Gen.
Grant and if $4,000 a year will not
keep him out of the poor house he
might inst as well go there at once, for
that much more would aggraVate his
case-he has always been squanderer;
he sduandered the lives of his soldiers
during the war, and since ne has squan-
deren his own substance. $4,000 or
$4,000 a year amounts to the same
thing with him.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10
AvOyeIRes Protests,

The session of the court which COM
menced on Monday, Dec. 1st, 1884, and
terminated January Sd, 1885, has been
to the parish of Avoyelles, in compari-
son to the amount of business transact
ed. we venture to say the most expen-
sive the parish has ever experienced.
Almost the entire term OF Court was
taken up in the consideration of the
Gaspard- Guillebert criminal case which
occupied fifteen days and that Of Dave
Crittenden another criminal case which
lasted two days. No litigated civil
cases appeared before the court, al
though the docket is extraordinarily
large. Numerous criminal cases have
gone untried and the expense to the
parish for those confined in jail still
goes on. This is a matter for serious
e.. nsideration and one to which we de-
sire to call public attention. We desire
to know why there should be tlgO
| Judges in the 18th Judicial District, un-
less il be for the better and more speedy
transaction of business and the conse-
auent benefit to the parish treasures of
| AyoyelIes, Rapides and Grant. Is the
egfyG Judge created for the 18th Judicial
District, created for the public good or
for some other puffnse Z AS public
journal represes tting sra;1 daring to de-
LEND Che best interests 6 Avoyelles, we
fesfgad,sd an answer, and gFe propose to
haze it. On this corsssctlon we court
and 4.Site discusg1 3n. More anon
MarEEfeeSR eviegf.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Joaquin Miller, the Rocky Mountain
poet, has been down in Louisiana lately
telling Southern farmers how to get
rich. He had better go back North and
tell them there how to get rid Of the
paupers-the ones that do not come
South as tramps. But suppose all got
rich, who would be the poor people, and
who would work for the rich ones
The idea of poet telling farmer what
TO do. Some Of these book and poet
farmers, ought to take hold Of a farm
practically and show the farmers how
to do it-then they would discover that
they could write more in minute than
they could execute in year.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10
Corn for Fuel /.

Says the New York Bulletin 1t 10 q
curious commentary upon the present
glutted condition of the worlds grain
markets, that farmers in Nebraska and
other parts of the Northwest are actu-
ally burning corn for fuel. They have
figured the matter out to their own sat
isfaction, and have come to the conclu-
sion that it is cheaper to burn corn than
it is to sell it and buy coal. Soft coal is
worth in that State about % cents a
bushel, and corn does not find ready
sale in the rural markets for more than
10 cents. Experiments have shown
that two bushels of corn will produce
more warmth than one bushel OF coal :
and farmers are thus burning the for
mer and saving themselves the trouble
of haulinglit to market and drawing the
coal home again. So long as it is prof.
table for the farmer to burn corn, and
while it gives him the proper degree OF
warmth, we suppose there is no occasion
for re greet on. the score of destruction:
The cereal serves useful purpose, and
the conditions are such that no better
one can be devised for it.. No one can
repress the hope, however, that there
will soon be such an Improvement in
trade as to make the profitable eX-
change of grain for coal and other com
mOdities possible.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The titles of some of the richest En-
clish bishops are: London, $4,000 !;
Durham, $4,000; Winchester, 49,, 600 !;
civ, $27,50O, and Bath, Lincoln, Oxford,
Salisbury, Liverpool and Worcester,
S25, 900 each. The bishop Of Sodom and
Man, who has neither cathedral nor
dean, gets $4,000 year for doing moth
ing.-Exchange.
The wealth and pomp of the christian
churches at the present day, do not ac-
cord with the worldly poverty Of Christ
and his apostles, nor with the doctrines
he taught. Recently we saw in an IL
Illustrated paper, q picture of q grand
procession of the members Of thb Cath
olic plenary convelafna or council at
Baltimore it suggesteraubles. by con-
trast, Christs' entry into JerusaS apEid-
ing a iackass. The churches are ev1g
IDENTIFY seeking too much the things Of
this world.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10
No Cough Mixture For Him.
Texas Slftings.

"My friend, how long have you had
that cough % asked kind hearted Aus
tin druggist of an emaciated tramp who
happened to be passing. The poor in
valid sighed, and between the par
oxysms managed to inform the druggist
that he had suffered untold agOnies
from the racking cough for more than
a year.
s'Here is bottle of cough mixture
that will relieve you. 1t is worth fifty
cents, but I'll make you a present OF it,"
Tears stood in the eyes of the unfOr-
tunate man as he shook his head, push
ed back the bottle of cough mixture,
and said:
Il can't rob you in that way. Give
me a quarter and you may have it,"
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

One set Of scientists assert that unless
the Atchafalaya river be damned at its
head the Mississippi river will eyentu-
ally pass that way and leave New Or
leans high and dry, without river nav
igation !; another set say that if the At
chafalaya be damned, the Mississippi
cannot hold all the water, and New Or
leans will be drowned ont. So the peo-
pie of New Orleans, if they control the
matter Of being damned or not being
damned will have to decide which horn
of the dilemma they viii take: too much
or too little water.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Many pious young ladies' who give
fairs believe that everything is fair not
only in love and war, but in religion.
Among the attractions of IL church fair
in Montana town recently was O raf-
f1e for fawn. At the conclusion of
the fair the holder of the winning ticket
in the rattle asked one of the lady man
she had no fawn for him, but that there
were plenty out on the hills, and he
could have all he could catch. The
man got wrathy, declaring that the
whole thing was "a burned swindle.n
For using this language he was prompt
ly suspended by the church, and the
local paper declared that he was no
gentleman for talking in that way to
the ''fair'' managers.-States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

A very fatal epidemic of typhoid fe--
yer at Ayrshire, Scotland, was TRACED
directly to the milk from cows which
drank impure water. That disease is
often caused in such manner has been
too often demonstrated to be. doubted.
Thousands upon thousands OF delicate
children every year perish directly from
the use of milk vitiated by impure and
unwholsome food and drink given to
the COWS in the dairy.-States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The Boston Herald says: Governor
Cleveland went to New Jersey, a man. :
ufacturing State, in the last week OF
October, and expressed himself plain,
upon the subject of taxation. He said
"The right of the government to exact
tribute from the citizen is limited to
it's actual necessities, and every cent ia
ken from the people beyond that re-
Guired for their protection by the gov
ernment is no better than robbery. We
must surely condemn, therefore, a sys-
tenn which takes from the pockets of
the people millions of dollars not need
ed for the support of the government,
and which tends to the inauguration of
corrupt schemes and extravagant ex-
penditures. As defined everywhere by
MT. Blaine, the Republican view was
that the war tariff should remain IN
touched, and the taxation should be
limited only by the supposed needs Of
protected monopolists and by the capa-
city of Congress to vote away the rev.
enue. The Democratic view, as voiced
by Gov. Cleveland, was that federal
taxation shall be exclusively for public
purposes, and shall noteXceed the needs
of government economically admins
tered and that the tariff should be laid
on fewer imported articles, bearing
heaviest on articles of luxury and light
est on articles of necessity. This is the
position of the revenue TefOrmers, and
upon it Gov. Cleveland carried New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut and
was elected"
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Those who pirate so glibiy about the
sufferings of the working poor of Eng
land under the free trade policy, and
the superior advantages Of those of this
country under the protective system,
should direct their attention to a report
Just made by the New York Herald.
That journal gives an instance OF a
Silesian shirt-maker and two women,
working in that city night and day.
from Nov. 26 to Dec. 8, at three sewing
machines, earned 81 rs. They made $40
shirts. Tor which they received 81 cents
apiece. This shows how, under our
much Landed protection, the very poor
in this country are ground down to the
edge of arvation.-States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The City car drivers strike ended
quickly, and their terms were substan-
italy accepted by the employers. There
was no time to be fooling-too much
money was being lost by the strike.
But every dog has his day. The car
drivers are the big dogs now, and their
tails stand aloft but after the EXPOSE
ton is over, and business becomes dull,
then many of them may be discharged
and the pay of the others reduced.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The farmer in reviewing the result of
his years toll, will find among them
many disappointments that have come
upon him that he can steer clear OF
next year. He will see that variety OF
production is far better than risking all
his labor on one commodity. A little
less cotton, little more corn, a few
acres more Ofnats, an extension OF bis
meadow, few mere hogs, horses, sheep
and cattle, better garden, orchard and
dairy and all such changes by which
labor can be varied, will pay. The
steady adherence to any one crop places
the farmer at the mercy Of spectators,
and should seasons prove uDpropitIous,
he may loose his all.-Jacksonville In
telligencer.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

DR.. Woodrow, having been removed
from the faculty Of the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Columbus, ..
c., for teaching that theology, to GER
tain extent, was not antagonlstlc TO
revelation, retorts upon. the trustees
that they may take their places W, with Il,
AGO. declared that any body disbelieving
in Wifehcraft discredited the Scriptures.
It'd.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The pension bill is developing a re-
markabIe fact concerning the Federal
army during the war. 1t is reported
that there are over two hundred thou
sand applications before the, war de-
partment to correct the records OF SOL 70.
diers who are elassed as deserters. Of
course those whose names appear upon
the list of tile deserters cannot receive
4 nension. Hence the scramble OF the
gallant O00O0 to be placed right upon
the record, so that they may draw their
pay.-States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

1t is generally remarked that while
the city is crowded with strangers, they
do not seem to be Of a very liberal class
in the way of spending money. In fact,
too many of them are here for the. purc..
pose of making money and carrying II
away. The number of idle ones is very
large, and many have been disappointed
in finding employment where they
thought it an easy matter to secure
States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The repeated successes in presiden-
tial elections of the Republican party
has had the effect of making its admin
istratiOn of the government the most
corrupt that was ever inflicted upon the
country. A few such defeats as it has
recently encountered may improve its
manners and its morals so that IN fu--
ture it will command more respect and
score better political record.-States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

It appears by the census OF 1880 that
there are in the United States 6.2399oe
persons above the age of 10 who can
not read and write; that OF these l,9O8--
818 are voters, and that the number OF
illiterate voters in nearly every state is
larger than the majority in said State
for either political party at the presl-
dental election States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Farmers up in Nebraska are burning
corn for fuel, because tits cheaper than
coal. That is, they can not afford to
pay the high freight to get the corn to
market and to get the coal from market.
While they are burning corn in one part
of the North, they are starving in an
other part for want of it.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good Even the lawyers will make
something out of the Exposition. An
exhibitor has sued the president Of the
Exposition for $5O,OOO damages, because
his goods had been seized; because it is
alleged he offered them for sale without
permission.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10
The Problem of the Hour.

The great problem of the hour is how
and where shall we find an outlet for
our surplus manufactures and agricul-
tural products I? That Questin solved
strikes would speedily cease, and in all
probability never be renewed; but as
long as we have no markets for this SUI
perabundance so long will we have Pc
RODS Of stagnation and their almost in-
variable contingent-s strikes.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Tile forfeiture Of the Backbone Rail-
road ia again revived, and bill for that
pnrpose IS now before the Senate in the
SHINE of a favorable report from Gn .,9
subcommittee on railroads. a Dill
AZ - ~ Honse at; the last session of Con-
c cress Should IT now pass the Senate
81 d doubtful if it will reach the House
far its action before the ADJOURNMENT OF
Congress. States.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

Ever since the war the South has been
considered poor country as regards
what is considered wealth, and the
North rich one. The poverty OF the
South was attributed to its lack OF
manufactures, in which the North was
rich. Notwithstanding this, in the
South there have been very few poor
people; that is, paupers. In this parish
there has never been poor house, nor
any necessity for one. The people may
not be rich, but they have been able to
avoid pauperdom, and buy a great deal
of their bread and meat, and all of their
clothing from the North. In the North
where there is so much wealth, great
deal of it is accumulated in the hands of
a few individuals. and where there is
one rich one there are thousands OF
paupers. The West is freer from pau
pers than the Fast, and the richest men
and nearly all the manufactures are IN
the East. The East is so hard to live IN,
that thousands of young men leave 1t
to hunt better place in the West and
South, and the young women are left
there to work in the factories. When a
country becomes so impoverished that
it can not support its population, and
the starving people are willing to work
at anything and for any wages; then
that country is ripe for manufactures.
Manufactures are good thing, but they
are a last resort. Georgia has for long
time been considered the poorest State
in the South, in regard to the quality OF
the land and it is the foremost of the
Southern States in manufactures. The
paupers at the North have to work in
the factories at any wages the owners
choose to give, and when the factories
suspend operations, many OF them be-
come tramps and come down upon the
South, like the lOcusts Of Egypt, to lind
something to eat and keep from freez-
ing-up in the rich North they would
freeze and starve. A land of factories
may be good where there is nothing
better, but a land of farms is better.
Those who work in factories do so from
necessity. Taking it all round, the
business Of farmer is the best Of all;
and the dissatisfied farmers should re-
fleet how dependent and often how
badly paid is that large class of man
kind who serve others for wages-that
great army of "heWers of wood and
drawers of water" who have no homes.
and when thrown out of employment in
the North starve and freeze and fill the
poor houses, or become tramps on the
South.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

a claifS has been advanced in favor
Of Athanak1ns Kircher in connection
with the oIsgin of the germ theory OF
disease. TnShis work on 1.-THE Plague"
published iIsRome in 1868, he attributes
the origin of7epidemic diseases, to ami
malcula (geTlGs p and maintains that
each kind of putrefaction possesses a
peculiar virus which produces q definite
kind Of illness.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

The American Grocer remarks that
'twe have presented the Sandwich Is
land sugar ring with 81 05 for every ten
cents received in the way of profit on
exports to that country, and the same
experience will evidently be duplicated
on a larger scale if the so-called 'reci
procitY' treaty with Spain is ratitied.N
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

A round trip ticket from Shreveport
to the Exposition is SIS; from Cincin-
matt to the Exposition SIS. Louisiana
railroads are not sentimental; they go
for the money.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

After January 1st, the importation OF
rags is to be stopped, on account OF
cholera. Home rags are therefore liza
BILE to advance in price; housekeepers
should save their rags.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

It was long after midnight, and the
minutes were clicking by like hours. Il
love graceful elm tree,n she respond
ed quickly. '.How / wish were an elm
tree he responded quickly 81 wish
You were, too.' "Why do you ~ he in
quired, with world of devotion in his
voice. Because" she replied, '.tTees
leave once a year at least. brakes
MagaZine
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

In an election for congressman, IN
The nineteenth district Of Pennsylvania
on Dec. 2sd, DR.. John A. Swoop, Demo-
erat. swooped down upon bis Republic
can onponent, and beat him.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10
OPELOUSAs
saturday, January 10, 1883.

Sixteen years ago the interest on the
national debt was $4,000 year; it is
now $4,000,
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10

It seems that the question of free
trade is agitating France as we'll as
America. Here is what correspondent
writes The question of protection Us.
free trade has led to an intense and
bitter agitation in France. The protec-
tionists are not satisfied even with the
duty which the government proposes
to levy on foreign grain and they de-
mand that it be doubled. The free
traders, on the other hand, denounes
the proposition to tax food as an inhu-
man and brutal expedient. They COM
plain that the republic is no more mer-
Cn snaa e o ba since be- f Fed
abroad, and taxes the bread and meat
of those left at home to pay the ex-
penses of colonial enterprises. The
widespread distress at Lyons and other
manufacturing centres has greatly aid
ed the free traders in emphasizing their
diatribes against the government
Southern Trade Gazette.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-10
FOE S.aLE OR REJVT.

A PIECE of property in opelousas, near the
IN Morgan 4. R., consisting Of several vacant
lots very eligible for building purposes, ana OF
a lot of ground with large dwelling house
near DR.. v. Boagni's. Sold or rented sepa'
rately. Terms Easy. FL, L. GARLAND,
dec S-3n1 agent.