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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27
THANKSGIVING.
A PROCLAMATION.
By the President.

The constant goodness and forbearauce of
Almighty God which have been vouchsafed to
the American people during the year which is
just past call for their sincere acknowlcdg-
ment and devout gratitude.
To the end. therefore, that we may with
tina nkful hearts unite in extolling the loving
care OF our Heavenly Father, /, Grover Cleye-
land President OF the United States, do here
by appoint and set apart Thursday, the
twenty eighth day of the present mouth of
November, as day of thanksgiving and
prayer. to be kept and observed by all our
people.
ON that day let us forego our usual occupa-
tons and in our accustomed places Of wor-
ship join in rendering thanks to the Oliver of
every good and perfect gift for the bouuteous
returns that have rewarded our labors in the
telds and in the busy marts OF trade. for the
peace and order that have prevailed through
out the land. for our protection from pesti-
lence and dire calamity aud for the other
blessings that have been showered upon us
from an open hand. And with our thanks =
givings let us humbly beseech the Lord to so
incline the hearts of our people unto Him
that lie will not leave us nor forsake us as a
nation, but will continue to us His mercy
and protecting care, Guiding us in the path
OF national prosperity and happiness. enduing
us with rectitude and virtue and keeping i've
within us patriotic love for the free insttu-
tons which have been given to us as our ma
tional heritage.
And let us also, on the day of our thanks
giving, especially remember the poor and
needy, and by deeds OF charity let us show the
sincerity of our gratitude. In witness whereof
! have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal OF the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city OF Washington this 4th
day of November in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety
FIVE, and in the one hundred and TWEEN
tieth year Of the indie pendence of the
United States.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
by the President
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27


As Americans have nearly SEQ, 000, 900
invested in Cuban sugar plantations, it is
but natural to suppose that If the insur-
gents carry out their threat to destroy the
crops and sugar mills they will ALLEVIATE
considerable sympathy now felt in this
country. Through many of the American
newspapers protests against such a course
are made. 1t is asserted that such a
policy would be suicidal. This may be
but one need not be very thorough
student OF history to recall the swath of
destruction which Gen. Sherman moved
through the very heart of the rebellion.
Years passed before the fertile Shenan-
doah valley recovered from the wholesale
destruosion, which the Union general,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27
PRESS COMMENTS.
Would be an Admirable Chairman.
Iporfland Press l

The selection of the Hon. Nelson
Dingley, .Jr., as chairman of the ways
and means committee, would ensure to
that important committee head
thoroughly familiar with all the matters
with which 1t has to deal, a cautious and
conservative statesman, and a man in
every way ct to discharge with thorough
satisfaction to the country its varied and
important duties OF the position. There
might be some opposition to him on the
ground that his selection would give
Maine undue prominence in the House,
but on no other
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Knox.
WASHINGTON.

]. W. Farrar, owner of the Razorville
water works, has placed tub in post
office square for the benefit of the public.
Miss Lottie Farrar is still gaining and
WILL we trust, soon be about. Miss May
Mari visited friends in Augusta, last
week. --Tke Good Will Society convened
with Mrs Llewellyn Turner, Friday after
neon, and pleasant and profitable occa-
sion is reported. Mabel Nash who
has been spending a short vacation, at
home, returned to Augusta, Sunday
Chas. Cunningham saw fine large buck
deer, last week. Deer are quite plenty
about here. judging by their tracks in the
light SNOWY. +. Dart returned home
from Waldoboro, Friday, having finished
his blasting contract.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27
johnson's Anodyne Liniment

turned from business trip to Bar Har-
REV. r. B. Mills preached a
Thanksgiving sermon, Sunday, Nov
gath. Appropriate selections were rem
dered by a quartet: H. P. Burrill
Emma Fogg, Sarah Eldridge and Daniel
Burrill Mrs Henry Gregg of Brewer
formerly Miss Priscilla Burrill of this
town, died suddenly Sunday morning
Funeral at Dedham Congregational
church, Tuesday afternoon.
SARGENTVILLE
Mrs. Phebe Grindle passed peacefully
away, Sunday, after a long and painful
illness. She will be greatly missed by her
aged husband. a son and two daughters.
Guy Bennett while playing at school
fell, cutting severe cash in his leg The
flesh was laid open to the bone and 1t
required six stitches to close the wound
P B. Billings has been suffering from the
effects of falling upon nail which pene-
trated his leg making painful wound
George Tibbetts and Maurice Gray were
arrested on charge of destroying portion
of the Ellsworth and Deer Isle telegraph
cable. They were taken before Judge
Chase and found guilty. They were
sentenced TO pay line or term IN jail.
They were released upon payment of the
fine.
SURRY.
The A. o. e. W. hall is receiving a
coat of paint Norden Lord is doing the
work. The foundation is ready for the
new Baptist church and the workmen
have begun on the fran e.-Mrs. Henry
Milliken has sold her house on Maine
street to Capt. S. W. Treworgy.-Mrs.
Chas. Beede and his son Fred, have re-
turned from Olamon where they have
been at work all summer.-Mrs. Henry
Milliken has returned from Boston where
she has been visiting friends and rela-
tives.-John Dority and wife of Swans
Island are here on visit to Capt. Samuel
Frecthy.
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Kennebec.
BRANCH MILLS.


Clarence Worthing has bought the Lon
Robinson place in this village, and erected
and stocked a new blacksmith shop
thereon and commenced business. The
village school is under the instruction of
Grin Sproul of Weeks Mills little girl
was added to III. l.. Pinkham's household
Nov. 90.
RIVERSIDE.
A very handsome and expensive monu-
ment was set up in the cemetery here last
week for Miss Caroline Pollard. 1t is the
most expensive one in the yard, and is the
work of Turner q Brown of Augusta. -
Harry Withee of Vassalboro, is station
agent here in place of Mr.. Williams who
had his leg broken.-Edgar Bailey is in
Whitefield visiting friends. -Miss Jennie
Farwell of Cross Ill., spent part of last
week here with her aunt, Mrs j. II
Reed.-Ed Lamson of Pepperill, Mass, is
visiting his sister Mrs. James. Clark. n@
WAYNE.
c. L. Lincoln has trapped over so
skunks thus far this season. Fred Lead
| better, principal of Lincoln Academy, is
visiting his father, Clark Leadbetter &c.
l.. Lincoln has purchased piece of land
of the late f. G. Dexter estate. MIR. Dial
ton is repairing the saw mill preparatory
to the winter saving. The village
school, taught by Miss Moore closed a
successful term, Friday The same
teachers is engaged for the winter term.
w. B. Howard and wife have gone to
Dapville for the winter -Winifred Wal
ton returned home, Friday, called by the
i1lnacc Of u ;c ID
suffering with sciatic rheumatism-Th
rededication Of the Methodist church has
been postponed one week, to Dec. 10
Mrs. &. ". Walton is quite sick.-Miss
Rachie G. Pulsifer who died Nov. 81,
was buried, Sunday. She was a member
of Golden Star Lodge Of Good Templars
and of Lewis H. Wing Relief Corps -
The farmers who planted sweet corn for
the factory at Leeds Centre have received
pay for the corn they furnished The
following are some of the best lots and
the amounts received: J. NJ Pike from
three acres, sl72.45; 6. W. Walton from
one and one-half acres, s75; ]. d. Walton
from two acres, STA; H. A. Lowell from
one and three-quarters, sl0106 B. F.
Bradford from two a ores, s11S.75.
NORTH VASSALBORO.
The parts of the engine in the wooden
mill that were broken week ago. have
been sent to Portland, for repairs, mean
while the mill Is running from O'Clock
A. NJ to P. NJ, or three fourths time
by water, School at Oak Grove closed on
the 2ist, for ten days vacation, before
the spring term.-Work is progressing
rapidly upon the church building near
by. 1t is intended to dedicate it on or
a6out Christmas time.-Dodge & Hussey
at the Corner received carload of corn,
Nov. u, that started on the first of
November. There are about 600 bushels
which they are selling at the car for 81. 90
per bag The Union Grange planned to
be held at Riverside on the Goth. between
Nassalboro. Winslow, South China and
Cushnoe Oranges, WAS postponed until
Dec II on account of storm. -Vassalboro
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Grange was to have conferred the third
and fourth degree upon - candidates at
its regular meeting, Nov. 26, after which
harvest feast was to be served.-The
two cases of scarlet fever in town are
nearly we'll and quarantine will be raised
this week.-At a special town meeting
called Nov. "a, to see what action the
town would take in regard to the compile
ton Of the new schoolhouse upon which
$4,000 has been expended, the town voted
not to complete the building.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27

The town of Harrington is "all haired
up because the rail road is to run two
miles west of the village.
Not all patent medicine companies can
rely on faith if their patrons can. The
Fort Fairfield Beacon finding itself out
because of the recent failure of one those
concerns takes occasion to remark that
while the Beacon didn't need money in
its business it would like very much to
receive u card of thanks from some mem
Der of the iusolvent firm.
Foxcroft has several new enterprises,
new buildings and plenty of grit, to say
nothing of confidence that she will get
over that Hale defalcation as easily as a
case of chicken pox. Besides forty car
loads of Christmas trees are being shipped
from that place this season.
One would scarcely expect to find a
black lead mine in Greenfield, but that is
what is reported.
1t was n Richmond lady who felt re-
lieved of neuralgia, although she after
wards discovered that the lotion she
applied was nothing else than clothes
cleaning preparation. a counter irritant,
probably.
A suggestion which attracts attention
chiefly, by reason of its novelty, is that
boards of trade keep black lists of dead
neighboring towns. If the traders
haven t the gumption" to look out for
this don ask the long suffering and much
abused board of trade to get into any
more trouble. AS it Is, the boards of
trade are blamed for what they don't do
trouble enough one would think-and
then, should they perchance do any
thing they are generally blamed for that.
That Bangor Commercial fund for
Bachelor, the man who lost his eyesight
and was otherwise manned in an cxplo-
sion on the railroad, appears to be a
most com mendable act of generosity.
The fund now amounts to S3l2 and the
laboring men of Old Town, Bachelor is
now at the Old Town hospital, have been
most generous contributors, the employees
of the wooden mill giving over $50. II
any one thinks people nowadays are more
heartless than formerly just let them
know of really deserving case that they
can appreciate and their generosity will
be found as responsive as ever.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27

Hawaii owes but SO, 735 600 and her
bonds sell for 1929 We would commend
the fiscal management Of the Hawaiian
republic to the attention of her great
and good friend Cleveland
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Pencbsc0t.
NEWPORT.

NEW IUhI.
The NJ. l. H. society had a supper last
Tuesday evening in the Grange hall. A
large number were present.-Sebastico
Grange is IN flourishing condition.
Quite number have Joined lately and
much interest is manifested in the order.
There will be union Thanksgiving
services at the Methodist church, next
Thursday evening. The Wallace Hopper
Comedy Company, played three evenings
in Meridian hall last week.
Osborne of Hartland has been spending a
few days in town.-Mr. y. +. Tilton has
been visiting friends in Lewiston. -
Arthur son of Charles Getchell, is quite
sick with typhoid fever.
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STATE NEWS.
Ar0ostook.
WOODLAND.

WOODLAND.
There has been considerable rain the
past two weeks and the fears of water
famine are dispelled. Charles A. Carlton
raised his new barn Monday, Nov. II. 1t
is 45x65 and 20 feet posted. In just one
hour from the time the men gathered
around the first band, the last one was
up The swamps are full of water and
lumbermcn are having "A hard time, as
there Is no frost in the ground.-The
roads have never been In such shape for
years as they are now.-The potato mar
ket prospect is no better than two weeks
ago. Price so cents a barrel.-Eli
Worster lost a valuable horse last week.
The horse seemed well at night, but the
next morning It was found dead.-R. W.
Withee, who has been taking care of
typhoid fever patients for some time past,
returned home, Friday.
NORTH PERHAM.
Wells are filled now and people do not
care how soon the snow omes.-The
steam mill of Geo. II. Howe on the edge
of Woodland, after standing idle about
two months from lack of water, has
started up again. Mr.. Howe's business
is prosperous and he can scarcely keep his
| orders filed, especially for long lumber
LAUNDERING operations are boon to
many farmers as they help them over the
failure of prices in potatoes. S. S. Albee,
with his son Walter and team went into
the woods to work for Aiken, but the
portion of the woods allotted to him was
| too soft for his team, and he has been
obliged to come out till the ground
| freeZes.-D. j. Wardwell and Robert
Green are putting in lumber for Akin,
They each have a camp and crew of their
wn.-Jonas Dyer is toting" for Ward
wcll.-lvan f. Topper, who had about sc
acres of spruce land burned over last
summer, is making arrangements to take
the lumber off this winter.-Geo. Smith,
who went out to North Dakota this fall
to act rs foreman in a starch factory, has
returned home. He reports the same
glut in potatoes there, as in Aroostook.
MAPLETON
! Jas. Mcpherson and Guy Thomp son
have gone on hunting trip up the Big
Machias. Mr.. Lyons has sold his interest
in the Hicks and Lyons farm in Castle
Hill, and have moved back to Pressure
Isle.-Florence Barrows had her foot
quite badly scaded while working at
Mrs. ;, |. Higgins Frank Thomas and
wife have returned home from Wakefi cid,
Mass.-P. f. Swan shot fine deer last
Saturday. three Dudley boys were
homo from Kicker Classical Institute.
Houton, and spent Sunday with their
parents, returning Monday. Allen
of Lawrence, Mass, has been visiting Mr..
A Ball the mast weak Tho Turpo,
Bros. threshed at c. S. Preble's, last
week, with a st. Adams machine, 201
| bushels of oats and peas, in three and
| onc-half hours and at Jas. Carters, IS
bushels of wheat in three hours
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Hancock.
DEDHAAi.

Mr.. Lugreen Cushing died Nov. Is, of
cancer of the stomach, aged 65 years He
was buried under the auspices of Walter
Parker Post, Dedham, of which he was a
member. He is survived by daughter
Mrs. Hattie Perry of Augusta, and a son
Lewis Gushing of Holden MIR. Charles
Brewster who had a cancer removed
several weeks ago, is recovering Mrs.
Aaron Dresser Is i'll with rheumatic fever.
Her sister, Mrs. Stetson of Bucksport, is
with her.-Mrs. Emma Fogg and daughter
Ethel of Otis, are visiting relatives here
Edwin and Horace Estes left, Monday,
for their winter work for c. H. Valen-
tine.-Julian Turner Is visiting his
sisters in Madison. Ellis Goodwin and
wife of Brockton, Mass, are visiting here
They will leave here for Los Angeles.
California soon.-E. E. Hurd has re-
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Parker's Head is short on barrels and
long on clans. Trade is so brisk that it
is difficult to get barrels enough for the
shipments.
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Sagadah0c.
BOWDOINHAM.

On Wednesday, Nov. 90, occurred the
social event of the season, it being the
occasion of the marriage of Geo. ID. Pratt
and Miss 6. Emma Hinkley, both OF
Bowdoinham. The ceremony was per
formed at the residence of the brides
father, Geo. L. Hinkley, one of Bow dom
hams leading citizens. The Rev. G. T..
Springer oflioiated. The wedding presents
were many and came from near and far.
Relatives of the groom in the West sent a
handsome service combined with silver
and gold. The happy couple begin their
married life with the congratulations and
heartfelt wishes of all.-Thaddeus Nc
Farland and wife Of Medford, Mass, will
spend Thanksgiving with W. A. Wood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27

Boothbay Harbor's carpenters are feel
ing Independent with work enough on
new buildings to last them all winter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27

Some of the Aroostook editors are COM
mentiug on the fact that business is
now being done on cash basis in that
potato pinch may be q blessing in dis
gIlse
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27
THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE.

Refraining from ordinary vocations, may
all the people OF our Christian Common
wealth, In their homes and in places dedicated
to public worship. render tributes Of praise
and gratitude for the many manifestations OF
Gods goodness.
And amid our songs OF praise, let our thank
fulness be evinced by some substantial ex-
preston OF sympathy for the poor, the unior-
tunate and afflicted.
Given at the Executive Chamber at Au-
gusta. this eleventh day OF November in
the year OF our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-iv and of the In
dependence Of the United States Of Amer
lea the one hundred and twentieth.
HENRY p. CLEAVES.
BY the Governor.
NICHOLAS FT.ssENDEN, Secretary Of State.
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MAINE GOSSIP.

Ia, tn, Turkey; sec you later.
The fat gobbler's dread of u cold winter
is Ger. We are thankful.
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The town of Harrington is "all haired
up because the rail road is to run two
miles west of the village.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27

by the President,
RICHARD OLNRY, Sec. of State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27

One would scarcely expect TO find
black lead mine in Greenfield, but that is
what is reported.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-06

ere to make themselves utterly ridiculous be-
fore the world" I.-
The Daily News has a dispatch from Con-
stantinople TO the effect that the embassies
have unofIicially informed the sultan that IL
the frmans for the extra guardships are re-
fused the Dardanelles win be forced by the
powers. Then the same correspondent says:
"The venal press hsrs congra .ulates the sultan
upon the success of his reforms and of his
repressve measures but II the massacres
diminish 1t is merely because victims are
lacking. Today's news h that 200 Arme
mans were killed in Ksisarych tCaesarea).
A massacre has occurred a. Kahel in the
vilayet of Erzeroum. about twenty miles east
Of the city Of Err sroum, where the Armenian
monastery was sacked and burned and the
bishop, the vicar and other inmates were
killed. A feeling of alarm still prevails"
The Daily Telegraph has a dispatch from
Vienna which says sixty-three Armenians
were butchered at Zileh, and fifty-seven at
Hassan Kaeh with every accompaniment of
ingenious cruelty. This correspondent affrms
that even in Constantinople the aspect of af-
fairs is far from reassuring.
Berlin dispatch to the News affirms that
Germany has been much more ective in en-
deavors to settle the Armenian difficulty and
to maintain the unity Of fhe powers. than is
generally believed. ut was upon Germany's
advics," says the dispatch. that the porte
opened negotiations for the submission of
the zeitoun insurgents which, however,
proved fruitless"
Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-06
AMERICANs FIGMTING FOR CUBA.
Missouri Militia officer and Two Hun
Ircl Mcn .lOin the Insureenta.

dred Men join the Insurgents.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5.-The mystery surround
ing the disappearance November IS of Cap
tain Rosser Roemer, who was in command
Of the famous Busch Zouaves, has been
solved. He Is now in Cuba at the head of
a band of 200 Americans, fighting for Cuban
independence, and with him Is Sergeant Frank
Hiligs, also member OF the Zoasyes. When
Ros:er Roemer left St Louis ostensibly to
visit the Atlanta exposition, 1t was quietly
whispered among bis frisnds that his desti-
nation was much more remote than the
metropolis of Georgia. II was known that
about the same time certain lenders In the
Cuban cause. with whom Captain ROemer
had been in consultation. lsft the city. Today
came the confirmation of the story close
friend Of Roemer received from him letter
direct from the Cuban seat Of war II Is
dated Havana, November 2s. 1895. Much Of
the contents are OF private character.
He says:
Just returned here to headquarters after
a skirmish around Matapzas,i Cardenas and
vicinity. only small bands there OF natives
and ! am now detailed elsewhere, where
mand some 200 Americans with old rank
temporarily. but expect to advance rapidly
Were the past, bright i would be happy.
Having realized life's ambition, however,
ture, trust. VIII write often as possible,
but chances are small for much of that
pastime from now ON. Go to the front at
a.. m, Hard work. but soldiers diet, Tell
Anderson to hold the boys In line. and when
possible will write for those wishing to
follow me. ROEMER.
The Anderson referred to is quartermaster
of the Busch ZOuayes.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-06
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE.
Favor New Legislation for Uniform
InspectiOn of Meats.


CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The executive COM
mittee of the National Live Stock exchange
met in the exchange building at the stock
yards this morning preliminary to the annual
meeting to be held by the exchange at the
same place tomorrow. The committee
among other things, will tomorrow report to
the national body the recommendation that
the exchange favor the repeal of the tax on
oleomargarine, and new legislation provid-
ing for the uniform inspection Of meat. The
latter subject was discussed for some time,
and much stress was laid on the allegations
of insutfcency and irregularty in govern
ment methods of meat inspection.
A report will also be made to the conven-
tion covering the work Of the committee of
three sent to congress last winter to secure
legislation looking to the prevention of for
egn embargoes on American packing prod
ucts and cattle The committee approved a
resolution favoring the Nicaragua canal, if
conducted under the control of the United
States.
w. H. Thompson, jr., Of Chicago, presided
over the deliberations Of the committee, and
Charl:s w. Barker, also Of Chicago, acted
as secretary. Those present were: ]. G.
Martin. South Omaha; w. j. Broderick
postmaster of East st. Louis; Levi Doud, c.
A. Mallory and Irus Coy OF Chicago; D. L.
Campbell South Omaha; w. B. Stickney
East ST. Louis; Frank Cooper, late candidate
for mayor in Kansas City, and j. N. Payne
Kansas City.