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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04
Mothers, Mother.,, Moshsrs,ss

nver = FTFrY YEARS nv MILLIONS Of MOTHERS for
their CHILDREN while TEETHING, with PEREE ~
SUCCESS 1t aOOTHES the CHILD, SUT I CSI IL
and is the best remedy for DIAkRhsEA. So% -. ~
Druggists in every part Of the world re suae .Ie M
for .:Mrs Winslow's Soothing syrup, anu 1870 snnS !"
1ther kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle. a~~HS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

TERMS: $500 PER YEAR.

No notice whatever WIN b TAKEN Of un-
signed communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BD HELD
RESPONSIBLE for the preservation or
return Of rejected communications.
Address all commune atoms relating to
subscriptions and Advertisements to
BURLEIGH Z FLYNT. Publisher. Au-
SaGta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Two Missouri victims of a lynchins
are now believed to have been innocent
of the crime of murder. There is no
doubt, though. about the lynchers being
guilty of murder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

SPANS eagerness to grant reforms"
to Cuba at this time is another illus
tration of the truth of the old saw:
"When the Devil was sick. the Devil Il
saint would be;
When the Devil was well the Devil Il
saint was he"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

1t may be well for Congress. in the
ted States and Spain, to make certain
that it isn't the United States who is
scared,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Washington appears to have hon
ored the advent Of the New Year with
customary enthusiasm. 1t is city of
hOpes-crushed and otherwise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

, Their combined ages amounted TO 49s
years. There was nothing so very re-
markable about that but the fact that
the combined ages Of three of the sig
amounted to 260 years was thought
worthy Of note.
One OF the wandering Willie
preachers who has been hoodwinking
the good people Of the st. Croix valley
Is spending 80 days In Maehas jal.
The fi5cataquis Observer has been
receiving visits from old subscribers
and best of all they paid up. I'll
noticed that George w. Washburn
paid his "in advance" from a eaIf-skr
he had carried 40 years and wou!dn
part with for a good deal. Sheriff Pool
dropped in to settle and incidentally re-
marked how he happened to become a!
subscriber. 1t was back in the dark
days of the rebellion and Mr.. Edes had
published something in the Observer
that offended the late J. s. Wiley who!
was peace Democrat" Mr. Wiley
at once ordered his copy of the paper
stopped whereupon Mr.. Pool hearing of
it, went into the Office and subscribed
for it thus showing his loyalty to the
government and 10 his local paper.
Since that time he has remained a sub
scriber. Then the editor went home
and dropped big stick of wood on his
ankle and has been hobbling about ever
since. !.
OF the thirty teachers In Elsworth's
city schools, twenty-seven are from
Ellsworth. How many cities in the
State can show a like record? This !
question is asked by one of our ex-
changes as if to confound with en-
every town that doesn't
show IN equal ratio of homegrown
schoolma ans employed. Nothing Is
said about the fitness of those teachers
and we are no, prepared to accept the
conclusion that because they happened
to be born in Ellsworth therefore are
they qualified TO teach there. This
spirit of encouragement for the young
people of the town, is, however. excel
lent if not carried too far.
The last hours of the open season on
big game were utilized to the utmost
in getting the spoils of the chase-or
Of the guide as the case may be-out
OF the woods The wardens received
letters also, from several parties in
the woods asking permission to take
their game home on the plea that they
couldn't get out of the woods before
the end of the week. Up to within
few days before the first of the year
more than 1000 deer had been shipped
over the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
alone There were only about three
fourths as many sent over that great
artery of the most prolific game region
in the State, last year. How many
deer caribou and moose have been
killed in this State the past season 1t
is impossible to determine with any
great degree of accuracy. One fact is
apparent, however, and that is if we
are to continue to provide this legion
of hunters with inducements to come
again there must be consecutive and =
well directed effort.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04
|E sSS
III We Weren't So Pesky Slow

III We weren't SO PeShy SioW.
What a wonderful spot West Newiield
would be.
If we weren't so pesky slow.
Such public spirit wed everywhere See
Only we're so peSky SLOW
Now there's that road the swamp runs
That's been the pride of Farmer Drew
Till back with rains. the mud came TOO
Cause the work moved so pesky SLOW.
If we weren't so pesky slow.
If we weren't SO pesky SLOW,
We'd have fixed that road long. long ago
If we weren't SO pesky SLOW
Ramshackle Park would dividends pay,
If we weren't so peSky SLOW,
Doctors wouldn't move in, and then away.
If we weren't so pesky SLOW.
And the sheriff-e elect. our townsman uetr'
Would no doubt give us lookup here,
(E,ast Wakefield lying unpleasantlJ near
If we weren't so pesky slow,
If we weren't so pesky slow.
If we weren't so pesky slow.
Ramshackle Park would dividends pay,
If we weren't so pesky SLOW
Patron saint of the village. oh, hear my
prayer.
If we are so pesky SLOW
For the pump in the square, put toun-
tain there,
Cause we're so pesky slow:
Please give our church all that 1t lacks
Fill all the pews and stop the CRACKS
Paint 'em. for long we've stuck to their
backs.
Cause we're so pesky slow.
If We weren't so pesky slow.
If we weren't so peSky SLOW.
We'd have painted these pews, yes
If we weren't so pesky slow.
BY one of West Newtields leading
citizens" and sung at Il local social.
Are you hunting for that pipe?
Don't abandon that diary. The
year is young yet
| How many times have you written
it 1896 this month?
The railroads could afford to exercise
their snow -plows for the extra freight
that would come to them with good
shedding.
The roads were never better for BIZ
cycling; tits said than during the past
two weeks when every rut was smoothed
by ice and hard trodden snow and
gravel and the weather was cold enough
to prevent melting.
Here's what. Milo's absent minded
man did recently. He hung the Ian
tern on the pump and began filling it
while he held the pail closely in order
to see what he was doing.
Bath Times: "Unctuous rectitude'
is an able phrase and is quite appro-
pirate to certain worthless in our town
who are so anxious about the morality
of others that they are hypocrites
themselves.
A Portland stenographer says the
express is frequently seen flying
along the road from Woodfords." Has
that Portland flying machine been per-
fected so soon?
The North Arson cat farmer is one
of the busiest ''agriculturalists' in the
State.
"Evolutions on the CONCEALED aqua
This is the way Maine exchange
distinguishes the eXhilarating pastime
of genus homo from that INDUCED in
by those hemipterous insects belong
ing to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostem-
ura, and allied genera, that run over
the surface of liquified aqua as il skat-
ing.
A Portland mother won't ask her
nrecocious son leading Questio IS again
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

An oatmeal trust has been formed to
regulate output and prices. Hog and
hominy is better suited to the public
palate than hog and oatmeal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The Cubans are more concerned just
now in preserving their anatomy than
they are in securing autonomy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Senator Blackburn is said to be fair
people free. Well. we can spare him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The payment of just bills is always
a good starter for New Years resolu-
tions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The idea of being bullied oy effete
old Spain, is decidedly revolving to
American manhood
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

If Spain could convert her pride into
cash she would be the CrOesus Of
nations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04


Winterport credits the following cap
lures TO leap year: A lawyer, doctor,
minister, barber. two druggists, mer-
chant clerk, stone cutters and farmers.
1t may be Squire Wheeler in the
other world. is glad of the way his
'nearness" in this was circumvented
once upon q time. He had been invited
TO take his four oxen and join the
neiShbors in getting up wood for poor
widow, declined saying that it, cost a
good Zeal to feed his team and he could
not afford to work for nothing. But his
son. Sanger who was also character.
was equal to the occasion, so going to
his fathers pocketbook he took out a
two-dollar bill and sent 1t to the widow
telling her TO engage his father to work
day with his team. She did SO and
the old gentleman went early and
worked late receiving the two-dollar
bill in payment. All was satisfactory
until he went to put his bill in the poe
textbook when he detected the fraud
and at once accused Sanger of being a
lil ~ ~ II. lie SdIu, IL W DIS
too bad for me to work so hard for
nothing" All the satisfaction he got,
however. was the implied willingness
on the part of Sanger to be forgiven if
he had done anything wrong.
Eastport will ask the State to amend
her charter to conform to her ordi-
nances. The assumption is those ordi-
nanceS represent later and more eX-
perienced ideas than the charter.
Lewiston Journal: A Maine man now
in Washington says that in spite of the
State there will be more drunkenness
in Augusta on New Years day than at
the national capital. All the whiskey
has to be struggled in. and the number
of Original packages" imported is
phenomenal. Most men returning from
a visit outside the State bring with
them from quart to gallon to dis
tribute among their friends.-New
York World.
We believe that metropolitan news
paper reporters are more easily guyed
than the old fellows who buy gold
bricks. How gratifying it would be to
the many friends of prohibition in our
Maine cities, if it We're necessary to
smuggle liquor into town in valises.
We hear that Augusta has her full
quota of illicit bar-rooms; but as far as
a general debauch on New Years day
is concerned, we never heard of such
thing in Augusta or any other Maine
city. In Lewiston and Auburn, where
social life is so active on New Years
day and so many calls are made, no
wine or liquor is ever offered to callers
by those receiving. In spite of rumors
to the contrary, this unwrtten law has
always been absolutely observed and
it will be the rule of '97.
The Oxford County Advertiser
changes to eight-page form with the new
year but it's features are otherwise un-
changed and it will continue to get and
print all the news of interest to it's SUBJ
scribers, something this weekly pub
iication is noted for doing so times a
year.
Six men CHANGED to meet in a Dexter
store the other day. There was moth
ing particularly remarkable about that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The Eastern Argus says there is
wealth behind the Bangor steamer
line enterprise and that it is sure to
succeed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The gentlemen who have undertaken
to down Quay in Pennsylvania have
a biz contract on their hands.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04
"A Fab FACE MAY PROVE a FOUL BAR
kissAaARRY A PLAIN GIRL If SHE USES
$APOI 10

unless she has her slipper in readiness.
He took q cold and his mother was
wondering how he got it. Cant say
about that" said the boy, guess it is
q ;sDod deal like the wind we read
about in the Bible. we can't tell
whence it comes or whittier it goes
nor you can't tell the sound of ii until
il sets up devil of a wheeling"
There Ned" said the astonshed
mother you have said enough and
had better talk about something else"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The American view of Weyler APP
pears to be gaining ground in Spain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Six men CHANGED to meet in a Dexter
store the other day. There was moth
ing particularly remarkable about that.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Now for a busy winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The Oxford County Advertiser
changes to eight-page form with the new
year but it's features are otherwise I'M
changed and it will continue to get and
print all the news of interest to it's sub
scribers, something this weekly pub
iication is noted for doing so times a
year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

The railroads could afford to exercise
their snow -plows for the extra freight
that would come to them with good
shedding.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Winterport credits the following cap
lures TO leap year: A lawyer, doctor,
minister. barber. two druggists, mer-
chant, clerk. stone cutters and farmers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

A Portland mother won't ask her
precocious son leading questions again
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

+ The roads were never better for BIZ
cycling; tits said than during the past
two weeks when every rut was smoothed
by ice and hard trodden snow and
gravel and the weather was cold enough
to nrevent melting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

How many times have you written
it 1896 this month?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-04

Eastport will ask the State to amend
nances. The assumption is those ordi-
nances represent later and more ex-
perenced ideas than the charter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-31

Hartt block, and the contest between him
and his old-time assooistesCol, Henderson.
will nowhere be watched with more inter-
est than here,
There is some talk here of reorganiza-
ton Of the projected Tallahassee South
eastern railroad through the alleged pur-
chase of the franchise by the Florida
Western railroad. The former line was a
comprehensive scheme projected number
of years ago, but is not likely ever to be
carried into effect.
The original scheme was to construct
line from cambridge, Ga, to Gainesville,
Fla, via Tallahassee; but the prevailing
conditions in the state are not now such
as to warrant any further expenditure In
this direction.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-31
LOCAL Personal.

Mr.. C. C. Thomas is up from waycross.
Mr. w. X. Halle of Jacksonville is in
the city
Mr.. w. A. Barker Of Rome is at the
Pulaski
Mr.. John z. Harris was down from Ma
con yesterday.
Mr.. r. II. Goldberg OF Atlanta is a guest
OF the Pulaski.
Mr.. l.. Meyer Of Columbus Is stopping
at the Screven.
MFR. w. l.. Rosenfeld Of Atlanta Is stop
ping at the De Soto.
Mr.. e. A. Netting of Florence, Ala, is
a guest OF the Screven.
Mr.. f. II. McCulIock Is down from At
lanta for a short stay
Mr.. William Faircloth OF Wrightsville
spent yesterday in the city.
Mr.. Stewart f. Woodson Of Atlanta
spent yesterday la the city.
Mr.. w. o.. Patrick, a leading merchant
OF Triton, was In the city yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. william Hawn left last
night for Knoxville. Tenn. their former
home. Mr.. Hawn was formerly auditor
Of the East Tennessee and Virginia rail-
road and Of the western division Of the
Southern railway. For the last year and
a half, up TO March /, when his resigna-
ton went into effect, he was auditor Of
the Central OF Georgia railway. Mr. Hawn
Is a railway man OF ability and wide ox-
perience. Both he and Mrs. Hawn made
many warm friends during their residence
Ia Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-31
The WiIson-Davant Matter.

Editor Morning News: / notice in your
issue of March % an interview with MIR.
r. J. Davant. Jr., in which he offers an
explanation of his conduct in refusing to
turn over to me the trust funds of the Ma
con Fire Insurance Company, which he, as
successor to the firm Of Davant & Archer,
agents, held in his possession. 1 think it
but just that the public should be placed
in possession of the facts regarding the
matter, which are as follows: On March
/ the Macon Fire Insurance Company de-
cided to retire from business. In order to
do this they reinsured their entire out
standing and uneXpired policies in the
Firemans Fund Insurance Company of
San Francisco, Cal, which protects the
policy holders of the Macon Fire lnsur-
ance Company against loss. Upon the ex-
piration of these policies some alert in
surance agent will solicit the renewals
The Macon Fire Insurance Company GER
tainly will not, for 1t has retired from
business. On March l. Messrs. DaVant d
Archer, agents held in their possession
premiums paid to them on policies just
issued in the Macon Fire Insurance Com
pany during the months of December 1896,
and January and February 1897. have
made repeated efforts, as secretary or the
Macon Fire Insurance Company, to collect
these premiums from his firm, but have
been put off from time to time on last
Thursday l visited them and urged that
these premiums be turned over to me.
found that the firm of Davant & Archer
had dissolved the day before my reaching
Savannah, and when l made demands upon
them for the payment of these premiums
on my arrival, Mr.. Archer was not only
willing, but anxious that Mr.. Davant
(who was then in possession of the assets
of the firm should pay them over.
This Mr.. Davant positively refused to do
unless / would obligate myself to him that
the renewals Of the Macon Fire Insurance
Company's policies would not be solicited
by another company. This / had no right
or authority, as secretary of the Macon
Fire Insurance Company to do, and told
him so plainly. 1 asked him to relinquish
no right or claim whatever, as to the re-
newals of the business. l simply demand
ed that he turn over to me the trust funds
of the company then in his possession. 1
could see no justice in his basing his re
fusal to pay over this fund upon so I'M
reasonable a condition as this Here was an
agent of a fire insurance company with
holding from his company premiums paid
his firm by policy holders for insurance
and protection against loss, for which they
would expect prompt payment in case of
fire, and he stubbornly Withholding their
premiums from the company upon the
silly pretext that an obligation would not
be given him that their business and pat
ronage would not be solicited by another
company--trust funds that should have
been promptly paid his company.
Edgar S. Wilson,
Secretary Macon Fire Ins. Co.
Macon, Ga, March 90 1897.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-31
PASSENGERS.

Per steamship Gate City FOR Phlladel-
phia-M. c. Hammond and wife, two
children and nurse, Rev. X. Jackson and
wife, s. X. Perot and wife, w. Beacham,
Hans REESE, James O'Neill. Charles
Starks.
Per steamship City of Birmingham from
New York-N. Jacobus, b. Jacobus, Mrs.
Buckley, Mrs Sawyers, Mrs. Marcellus,
Mr.. Newcombe George Baldwin, D. G..
Allen, G. Birdsey w. Il. Sebree, j. A..
Mauer and wife, f. II. Haym, d. e. Web
ster. Mrs. Ruste w. II. Haine Mrs.
Maurice, Lula Frazier w. NJ. King, A.
Hlllpa.
Per steamship Kansas city for New
York-Amos Sawyer, Col. J. Knox PHIL
Ups, Capt. d. +. Larkin, J. A. Moore and
wife, John A. Taylor, Miss Lizzie q.
Davis and boy, Mrs. w. S. Richardson,
Miss Sophie Mccall, Mrs. A. j. Mccall,
Miss Jones, Mrs. Rankin. Mrs. Newkirk,
Leve Lumb, George Ready, Miss Payne,
Mrs. Levi Lumb. Mrs. l.. Klcady, NJ. l..
HARDWOOD I. c. Willard and wife, w. G.
Hughson, +. @. Hughson. Mr.. Patterson,
Mr.. McMannis. A. L. Voorhees,, II. J. Eli
wonty, Paul Konert Mrs. V. c. Elder,
Charles II. Miliken, j. l.. Webster, Miss
Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy, II. d. Williams
and wife, r. w. Doty, Tim Oconnor, Mr..
Hull, James Bennett and child, Miss Arlle,
nurse and child, Mrs. James Bennett, Miss
Bessie Bennett, G. l.. Roberts and wife,
G. c. Southland, George Q. Southland, ".
Barron, George Shorkley, Mr. Hall. J. b.
Kinney, Miss Roberts, Miss Mary Ander-
son, Mrs. A. Howard, Miss Hanley,
George w. Anderson and wife. j. 3. Beall
and wife, Mrs. Jean c. Allison. r. b. VIII
liams and wife, James Van Nyce and wife,
Miss Cawlow. Mrs. o. +. Cawlor, +. A. Al
len, Mrs. NJ. Tabor J. NJ. Fahementock,
O. i. Caylor Mr. Chambers and wife s.
w. Kellum and wife. Mrs. NJ. M. Bell,
Isaac Galloway, Miss M. Mcbride, Miss j.
Mcbride, A. j. Root, John Kenrick and
wife, r. p. Wilson and wife.-J.f.N. Helms.
James Anderson, V. II. Henderson, j. IL.
Smith, George T. Steetor and wife.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-31
WHAT APRIL MAY BRING.
The Kind of Weather That Can lie
Looked For Next Month.

Observer Sherier has compiled from the
records of the weather bureau for the last
twenty-six years a report of the weather
conditions during April from which some
idea may be had of the kind of weather
that may be expected next month.
The mean temperature for April is GO
degrees, which is about the average for
the entire year. Th&-warmest April since
1871 was that of 1888, with an average Of
20 degrees. The coolest was that of 1875,
with an average of 62 degrees. The high
est temperature recorded in April was 80
degrees on the 21st and 22d in 1896. The
lowest was 33 degrees on the I'd in 1881 The
average date on which lastE'killing" frost
occurred in spring was March T.
The average rainfall for the month is
S39 inches, and the average number of
days with 81 of an inch or more, is 8. rhe
greatest rainfall was $50 inches I'm 1877
The least was 016 inches in 1892 The
greatest amount recorded in any twenty
four consecutive hours was 612 inches on
April 16 and II, 1879.
The average number OF clear days in
April is 12; partly cloudy days, II, and
cloudy days, 7.
The prevailing winds are from the
south. The highest velocity was 80 miles
from the northwest and west, on the
9th and End, In 1888 and 1894.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-31
FLORIDA's CAPITOL.
II Is Being Put i'm Shape For the
LegIsInture.

Legislature.
Tallahassee, March 30.-The old capital
city is again arousing itself from Its torpor
and assuming the usual air of restrained
vivacity with which every two years Il
welcomes the legislative session. The
brush OF the kalsominer and painter is
break their rule" for this occasion only
by taking in and doing for a few boarders,
are now busily engaged in setting their
houses in apple pie order.
The capitol itself, In spite of all that has
been said against 1t by certain parties,
who are anxious to see the seat of govern
ment moved further south, was never in
better condition. II was thoroughly rem
ovated by the public-spirited citizens Of
Tallahassee before the session of 1895, and
is to-day amply sufficient to all demands
likely to be made upon It,.
The last two sessions have beeen rather
dull. and people here, who recall with
gusto the exciting scenes Of the session Of
1891, are looking for a similar breeze to
sweep this year through the legislative
halls. They are likely to be disappointed
Florida will probably never again be edi-
fed by just such another legislative per-
formance
There can. however, be little doubt that
the coming session will be far above the
average In interest. The senatorial con-
test dwarfs all other issues here The
fight against Call has apparently rosolV-
ed itself into "A three-cornered one Judge
Raney. Col Henderson and Col Chlpley
are all anti-Call candidates, and the two
former are residents Of Tallahassee, where
they each have hosts OF friends. Judge
Raney Will have his headquarters in the