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The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

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The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

Eastport's annual town meeting resulted in
the election of a straight Republican ticket by
majorities ranging from 81 to over 200.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

Machias has voted to have the school year be-
gin in September instead of April as heretofore.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
Maine MatterS.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
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The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

At a meeting of the merchants of Key West,
Fla, Saturday, it was voted to issue an appeal
to the country for help. Thousands of people
there are destitute.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

1t is feared that more than 100 people will die
of starvation in Labrador this spring, unless aid
comes to them soon,
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

Advices from all parts of the province of
Quebec, report great damage as the result of
freshets and floods.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

Right Hon. William E. Forster, who was
formerly Chief Secretary for Ireland, is dead.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

The Balkan conference will appoint Prince
Alexander governor of Eastern Roumela for
five years, ignoring the Princes refusal to ac-
cept the appointment for that term.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

1t is reported that the English cabinet is
breaking up and that Mr.. Gladstone will be
unsupported by the ministry when he makes
his statement to the House of Commons on
Thursday.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

kilograms from points in Tennessee below
Chattanooga, report the river is flooding the
country and spreading destruction along its
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
Meeting Of the Belfast City Council.

DUAL CITY GOVERNMENT. STORMY SESSION.
THE MAYOR DEMANDS THE RECORDS, AND ON
BEING REFUSED FORCIBLY TAKES THEM. NO
JURYMEN DRAWN AND ALL IMPORTANT BUSI-
NESS SUSPENDED. ALDERMAN PITCHER SWORN
Monday evening was the regular April meeting
of the City council but owing to complications no
business transacted save the election of some
minor officers. The last joint convention adjourn
ed to meet the first Monday evening in April at
I O'Clock 1t has been customary for each board to
meet first in separate boards, but Monday
evening majority held to the strict construction
of the vote and claimed that the joint convention
should first be held. Consequently the so-called
Tax Reducers met in the common council room in
joint convention. In the absence of Mayor Baker
the meeting called to order by the city clerk.
Alderman Hall was chosen President of the
convention.
None of the Tax Payers, Aldermen or Council
men, took seats at the table.
In the Aliermen's room Mayor Baker, Messrs.
Dunton, Haney and Mason sat at their table. The
city clerk with the records was in attendance at
the Joint convention.
Mayor Baker went into the council room and or
dered the city clerk to come to the Aldermen S
room ana proceed to his business
Mr. Murch informed him that he was attending
to his business in joint convention. Mayor Baker
then returned to his room, and for a time two city
councils a double-balrcled arrangement, was in
existence.
Mayor Baker, with good deal Of determination
in his countenance, came into the council room,
and walking up to the clerks desk said
'Mr Murch, demand the records of the Board
Of Aldermen"
Mr. Mureh, who was standing up, placed both
hands upon the book and said "You cannot have
them"
MIR Baker quick as flash seized the book,
wrenched it away from MIR. Murch and placing ii
under his arm ran to the board of Aldermen's
room.
Alderman Mason was then elected clerk pro ten,
but Alderman Dunon read the records of the last
meeting
In the meantime in joint convention committee
of one Councilman Con, was appointed to wait
upon City Solicitor illiam~ou and ASK his attend
ancc upon the meeting.
Mr. Williamson appeared
Alderman Brown then presented the credentials
of Thomas W, Pitcher as Alderman for ward Two,
and moved that he be sworn in Carried.
Mr. Pitcher then sworn in as Alderman Of
ward Two, by Wuyland knowlton, Esq. justice
of the Peace.
MIR Pitcher took his seat and acted with the
board during the remainder of the evening.
Jurymrn for the April term of the :. ]. Court
ought to have been chosen by the municipal officers
Mayor Baker went to the Council room and de-
manded of city clerk Nurch the jury box. Mr.
Murch refused S;iyin I'VE now in joint con
vcntion later in the evening will give it to YOU"
The 10 int convention subsequently took recess
b.lf all, + IA,
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

a press dispatch from Newfoundland brings
a sad tale of suffering and fatal casualties. 1t
is said that one hundred families in St. Johns
are actually on the verge of starvation, and
LOGO people are being supplied with necessaries
of life either by the Government or public sub
scriptions. Narrowing stories of destitution
come from all along the coasts. Seven people
We're recently drowned under peculiarly sad
circumstances. Three little girls, all under
twelve, were playing on the ice and fell through
a hole. A brother and sister driving dog
train over the ice We're submerged. The boy
was drowned, but the girl chung to the dog and
was rescued after being four hours in the
water. The dog was drowned. Three brothers
named Eason went cunning in a small boat and
have never been heard of since. To this chap
ter of accidents is to be added the loss, in the
seal fishery, of steamer, two or three schoon-
ers and several lives.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
Sugar and Sand.

We have been asked to publish some facts
relative to the Hawaiian treaty and the sugar
monopoly of Claus Spreckels. If this matter
is not well understood it is not from want of
ventilation. The promoters of the treaty had
the sand to ask Congress to present them with
a million dollars or so per annum, and We're
also abundantly supplied with sugar" which
they put where it would do the most good.
The pretence that this treaty would open up a
market for American goods was only part of
the clap-trap used to deceive those who could
not be bought. In point of fact the total value
of American goods sent to the Hawaiian Is
lands is less than the duty RENTED on sugar,
the product of coolie labor, which comes to Mr..
Spreckles retnericS in San Francisco. And
California gets her sugar no cheaper than
when duty was paid. Mr.. John L. Seares.
Jr., one of the commissioners appointed by the
Secretary of the Treasury to investigate the al
legged frauds under the Hawaiian treaty, gives
the following reasons why the treaty should be
abrogated:
l. Because of the enormous loss in revenue
to this country, which is practically paid out of
the pockets of our taxpayers to fill the pockets
of small company of sugar planters and spec
uators. The production has assumed proper
tons never dreamed of when the treaty was
made and the crop is still st ably increasing.
| ,. 1t has not either directly OF Indirectly
benefited the consumers of sugar in this com-
try. but has brought the product of the Island
into direct competition with our sugar produc-
erS and manufacturers.
3. The treaty has not benefited, but has, on
the contrary, in red the sandwich Islands, de-
moralizing and estroying the native popula-
ton and substituting Chinese and other As
iatics, while American influence in the affairs
of the islands, except so f,r as it has been eX-
erc-ed for - rests of the indvid-
| ual, has been weakened.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

A bill has b cen introduced in the Senate
APP propriate 100000 for the construction of
addition to the White House.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
One cotton firm at Rome. Ga, has lost 80 600
bales Of cotton by the floods there.

There We're riots in st. Johns, Newfound
land, Saturday, caused by the Imprisonment o
disorderly workingmen
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

The first slave ship in this country was the
ship Desire, built in 1886, at Marblehead, in the
State Of Massachusetts. The first cargo of
slaves aside from few brought in Dutch
ship was imported in the ship Desire, into the
harbor of Salem, Mass, in 1888. One hundred
and fifty years afterward the Rev. Jeremy Belk-
nap, in his history of Massachusetts, says that
rum distilled in Boston was the handspring to
the slave traffic,
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
4 MAINE VETERAN REMOVED.

Mr.. Patterson, the proof reader of the Treas
ury. has been discharged, and the son of Rob-
crt Il. alker, an eX-Sccretary of the Treasl-
ry, who is now storc-keepmg, and democrat
has been promoted to hiS place. Mr.. Patter-
son is an old man and deacon i'll DR.. Suth-
erland's church. This is the Presidents pas
tor, and Mr.. Patterson tried to get DR.. Suther-
land to nterccde for him. but the latter refused.
He is credited to Maine and when the change
in the administration occurred he was at once
singled out to 20. because it was thought he
was one of Mr.. Baine's appointments. But on
looking up his papers the only recommends
ton found was one from Senator Lot NJ.
Morrill, of Vermont. Then it was thought he
had voted the republican ticket, but ii was
found he had not voted for twenty-one years.
lie has remained up to this time. but now he
has to 90 out, and the charge is his old age bat
he is still vigorous and strong, despite his
years.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

The cloak makers strike in New York city
is ended and Thursday nearly 10000 of the
strikers were permitted to return to work.
They were not asked any questions, but re-
turned at the old rates. The effect of the strike
has been to reduce some of the families of the
strikers to state of actual starvation, and for
several days past they could hardly be kept in
line. 1t is virtually victory for the contract
OrS.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

bill providing for the organization of Tariff
Court, to which will be referred disputed ques-
lions in regard to the customs revenues, now
decided by the Collector of the Port or the Sec
rotary of the Treasury.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

The news from the East is warlike, and,
while Russia has announced her intention to
occupy Bulgaria if Prince Alexander persists
in his obstinacy, the English government is
evidently alarmed and is making aggressive
preparations.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

Dispatches from New York report trouble
patient Irish separationists threaten to with
hold financial aid from Parnel if he does not
labor for the actual separation of Ireland from
England.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08

According to the latest published statistics
membership of l9,1.4. There are 40 ordained
ministers and nineteen students for the minis
try. In the year ending October, 1885, there
Were 40 baptisms.
The churches reporting the largest number
of baptisms are Dover and FoNcroft, forty
kendu>keag %; Augusta %; Auburn and
Sedgwick, ~ each; First Hancock. IS; First
Portland, Bethel, Milo and China, u each
WateWille, Il: South st. George, II; IIoulton,
10.
Six churches number over 800 each - First
Portland and Lewiston, 397 each; Free street,
Portland, 353; Auburn, 40; Waterville. 34S
Rockland, 80. There are eighteen churches
having POO members and less than 800 and
thrty-siN having 100 and les, than 200 each
The benevolent contributions reported for the
year ending October, 1SS5, amounted to 3d.
S23 90
The Republican journal., 1886-04-08


We have received, within the past few
weeks. numerous inquiries as to whether Hon.
}. X. BOdWell, of Halo ,ell. is a candidate for
the Republlcan nomination for Governor We
are prepared to give a definite and explicit an
swer. Mr.. Bodwell will make no personal eff
fort to secure the position, but if the Republic
can State Convention should tender him the
nomination, we feel authorized to state that he
would accept it. Mr.. BOdwell is not in any
sense presented as a kenncbec canddate-the
movement for him being common to all sec
tons of the State. kennebec journal
The 'Mairc delegation" has re-estabished
its headquarters in Washington. Among the
most prominent is eX-mayor Geo. Walker, of
Portland, who would like to succeed Cap'n
Chase, and Ben. Bunkers friend, Mr. j. p.
Bass, of Bangor.
Possession of the navy yard did not seem to
help the kittery Democrats much in the late
town election.
a NEW ENTERPRISE.
For several years Col. /. S. Bangs, of Water
vile, has been buying and bonding extensive
tracts of land in NorridgeWock, containing
great beds of granite, with view to their de-
velopment He has now secured three or four
hundred acres. He has also succeeded in Sc
curing the cooperation of a number of Chr
cago capitalists. A stock company with a cap
ital of 100000 will be established, the best of
modern machinery will be purchased, a mile
of railroad will be built from the Somerset
railroad to the quarrles, ana the enterprise
will be started this summer with every facility
THE KENNEBEC LUMBER CUT.
Kennebec lumbermen have finished Their
winters operations, and men and teams are
coming out of the woods. The season has
been short and unfavorabe one. The tota
cut of logs is less than the average in the region
of the head waters of the kennebec and it,
tributaries, and will not exceed 100, 0O0, O0(
feet. The operations have been carried on b,
some 40 individuals and firms. Nearly 3O(
men and 500 horses have been employed.
IN GENERAL.
Travel on the Maine Central is increasing.
Work is about to begin on all of the granite
quarries at Deer Isle.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-17

SOME Of Connecticut's old blue laws are
coming back to plague the descendants OF
their inventors A series OF elaborate Sun
day concerts were recently arranged for in
New Haven when it was dug out OF the stat
ute books that under an old law that was
still in force every person attending a con-
certo other diversion on Sunday or Sunday
evening made himself liable to q fine of four
dollars. 1t Was then discovered that the
temperance organization OF the Good Ssmsri.
tans, which holds Sunday night meetings,
enlirens It's proceedings with music and
takes up collections at the door, WAS included
within the scope of the statute, as also the
German societies, which have concerts there
On Sunday nights that are largely attended.
And now there is pretty row going on in
this classical New England city.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-17
Blaine on the Civil Service.

Mr.. Blaine's letter on the civil service
question is fine specimen of the art of
beating the devil around the bush.
He says that he has never repudiated
civil service reform; which is his way OF
saying that he don't like it, but is not fool
enough to say SO. Then he rambles off in
q discourse about the evils of the English
civil service system, which he thinks it
would be wrong for US TO copy, and with
patriotic pride announces that the policy
and history of the Republican party " were
truly American In its best sense"
He ends by an attack on the Anglo
maniacs who are so small and feeble body
that man who feels 50 big might afford
to let them alone.
This letter will be hailed by his wor-
shippers as clear and statesmanlike
treatise on civil service reform, but people
who have not lost their judgment will be
at loss to know whether Mr.. Blaiue
favOrs or opposes that reform. In the be-
ginning OF his letter he pretends to regard
it with favor but near the end he refers 70
the twenty years of partisan Republican
rale--when none but men who voted
straight held oflce-as the years when the
policy was American, and therefore per.
feet.
"American inspiration ends where Eng
lish imitation begins" Very good. But
where does American inspiration begin &:
Surely not in the days of Babcock & Co
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-17
Their Iirpless Iahor-

The reporters had Mr.. Buckalew se.
curely posted in the attorney general 5
Office, until Secretary Lamont could be
communicated with, when it was found
that the appointment had not yet been
heard of at the White House. Nor even
rumor of its contemplation. Mr..
Buckalew having just been chosen
to Congress, it is very unlikely that either
he or the president has had it In view to
put him in some other place. He has been
available for two years past for presidential
selection and has not been chosen now
that the people have taken him, they ex-
pect him to serve where they put him, in a
Congress that will need every first class
Democrat that has been chosen to it.
II Il surprising that the newspapers do
not get tired of removing Attorney Gen.
eral Garland from the cabinet. They
nave had such experience of the pres
dents stability aud of his disregard
% their groundless howlings that one
Vonld think they would tire of their at
!enpM TO persuade the people that he
going to do what the intelligent
portion OF them know he has no Thought of
doing. Before Attorney General Garland
5 entered the cabinet he had the praise of
overJ one. In his place he has done moth.
Ing 70 displease even the newspapers, save
bringiDg the Bell telephone monopoly
- account for its fraudulent patent.
Tlis and his Democracy are bis offences
md the extent of an editors hatred o.
Democracy and love of Bell telephon,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-17

THE chryssnthemum show Just closed
showed that the florists Of Lancaster were
vide awake and fully able to maintain their
good reputation. Wonders have been &C.
complished in the development OF new and
rare varieties of flowers, but this success in
the changing Of form and color suggests that
there is another field for the energy and en-
terprise of florists, where success would
bring wide fame and sure fortune
If the many improvements In form and
color would be accompanied by correspond.
ing changes in perfume, the chryssnthemum
would excel the rose. 1t looks like a simple
matter, but must be dlficultor it would long
ago have been accomplished. Try again.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-17

JEALOUS ESGLASp is trying to belittle
the colossal size of the Bartholdi statue by
saying that it is surpassed by one of two
gigantic statues of Buddhs at Bsmian on the
principal road between Csbul and Bslkh.
These statues were cut out of the solid rock
at least eighteen hundred years ago. one Of
them is l20 feet high, while the other is l73
feet high. As the Statue of Liberty meas
ures only Isl feet from the bottom Of the
plinth to the tip of the torch, 1t is inferior In
height to one of these ancient ikons at
Bsmian. But even If the big Buddha,
chiselled out of solid conglomerste and
washed centuries ago with crude gilt paint,
be few feet taller than the torch. bearing
Liberty, 1t is only when the pedestal is left
out of account The tip of Bartholdrs
copper figure rises 3O5 feet II inches above
low water mark.