Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-18

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Augusta. Thursday Morning, Mar. IS.
Tie DAILY EtSyEsN JOURNAL
Is issued every morning except Sunday. at
$500 a year.
$3.50 for SIX months,
3l.75 for three months,
90 cents per MONTH
Hallowel and Gardiner, and also at the bookstores
OF T. r. Pierce, Augusta; c. L. Spsulding, Halo
we'll: o. NJ. Blanchard. Gardiaer.
Tie WEEKLY gtssssT j9vssA.
Is Published Every Wednesday, on the
$500 for a year.
0I.OO for six months.
SOC. Tor three mOOtnSs
For sale every Wednesday neon at the bookstore
OF J. =. Pierce. Augusta c. l.. Spaudng, Haloweli
o. N. Blanchard, Gardiner.
Advertising Rates
Can be had on application at the ONCE. The
Daily and Weekly taken together afford the best
advcrtising medium for this section of the State.
For only 90 cents, special advertisement OF three
lines can be placed In the Daily Journal tor one
<rw n r.A mir IN
lost and found articles and for houses to sell and 10
rent. As well adapted to Gardiner and Hallowell
people as Tor Augusta readers.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.
The Kennebec journal establishment Is prepared
1t all times give Immediate attention to orders OF
any kind Of book or job printing. We have every
facility for doing work cheapy and well. Have new
syss Of ype orders BY mail win receive
prompt attention
Ex-Attorney General Brewster is said to
attribute his wife's death largely to over
work in discharging social duties.
Hon. Roscoe Conkln, it is now assert
ed, declares with emphasis that he will
not return to the political arena at present.
Congressman Weaver of Nebraska says
every Congress contains crank. lie
might have added that the present Con-
gress is overstocked in this respect.
A two weeks campaign is considered
long enough by the Rhode Island repub-
licans so they will hold their State con-
vention March %, and elect the nominees
April Z.
A President who writes letters and loses
his temper needs virtues enough to make
. whole calendar of saints if he hopes to
escape wrecking his administration, says
the Tribune.
The democratic Richmond Dispatch
warns democratic congressman that unless
they smother their constitutional scruples
and vote for the Blair bill some democrat
ic districts in Virginia may 60 republican
this fall
The arrest of DR.. Mary Walker the
other day in Rhode Island seems to have
been petty outrage. The only offense
charged against her was that she was a
woman--and that isn't indictable even in
Rhode Island.
The Alabama democrats view with
good deal of concern the evident drift of
the prohibitionlsts towards nominating a
State ticket. Democrats claim 50, 900 ma
jority in the State, but the prohibitionists
say that they can cast &C. 900 votes
The Ways and Means Committee will
report favorably to abrogating the
Hawaiian treaty, on the ground that its
abrogation will increase our customs re-
ceipts 81. 100000 year However the
committee may report. the treaty will not
be abrogated.
The democratic party has thrown away
its advantage and discarded its policy,
says Harper's Weekly The Presidents
course has rent, not united, his party.
The democratic party has not won the
confidence OF the friends of sound finance
or of civil service reform.
For ten years out of the last twelve the
House of Representatives. says the Chica-
60 Tribune. where all revenue bills must
originate, has been under the control of
the democratic party. and yet the only
measure of tariff reform adopted within
that time was passed when the republi-
cans had a majority.
The sale of the art collections of the
late Mrs, Morgan. at New York, is over.
1t was one Of the largest, if not the larg-
est ever known. The total amount real
lied was. in round numbers, $l.2o5. 400
The sales for Monday amounted to $24-.
047 During the morning and afternoon
sessions over $l9. 900 worth OF engravings
were sold.
Express car murders were current
stories in the newspapers at one time, but
the express companies succeeded in max