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Year: 1879

Remember that the only reason why your
State taxes were not reduced this year was
the Republican deficiency of three hundred
and ten thousand dollars last year.-M0ine
STANDARD.


REMEMBER that the deficiency" not
caused by increase of expenditures but by the
mistake of theLegislature in 1877 in levying
tax of only three mills on dollar, will be
paid out of the tax levied by the Republican
Legislature of 1873, and turned into the
Treasury this year. Remember that it does
not come out of the tax levied this year.
Remember that tie deficiency" has nothing
to do with the non-reduction of the State
tax by the fusionists this year. Remember
that the fusionists imposed a tax this year
as great as was imposed las year, though
they had no deficiency to care for. Remem-
ber that the Standard has misstated the
deficiency" multiplying it by the mystic
number three
Year: 1879

Republicans. you are to-day going to the
polls. For what? To administer scathing
and lasting rebukc to the fusion party; to
deal the finishing blow of the year to Green
back error. Let us give the coalition
Waterloo defeat Our advices show that
the only thing necessary is to poll every Re
publican vote and the work is accomplished.
But, Republicans, mere success is not suf-
ficient. You owe it to yourself to elect Gov
ernor Davis by handsome majority, one
worthily representative of Maine. This can
readily be realized by effective, energetic
work. An exhaustive canvass, accurately
made has just been completed. 1t shows
that we hold the votes; it now rests with
you to bring them out. Republicans! We
call upon every one of you, individually, to
do his best, and the thing will be done.
From the time the polls are opened until the
vote of your ward or village is declared,
your motto should be, Work' See to it that
every doubtful or Indifferent voter is brought
to the ward-room, and his b llot counted
upon your side. If he promises to come
make it your duty to see that he does so,
even if you have to call round for him once
twice, thrice, to. effect this. The advices
from all parts of the State are such as to give
emph 1tic reason for confidence and satisfac-
tion. From York to Aroostook come reports
of the most encouraging progress in favor of
sound finance, and of patriotic work faith
fully done. Our friends, fifty realizing the
Importance of the emergency, are rallied in
solid column, and will make splendid fight.
Do not leave somebody else to do the work,
but let every man take bold i'll earnest and
do his part to make victory not only sure,
but overwhelming. Let Republican zeal
and perseverance only end with the closing
of the polls, and the result will be sure to
well repay us for our eXertiOnS.
Year: 1879

The Greenbdck Labor Chronicle, which
has done almost as much lying since its
foundation as the Argus has during the last
weeks of this campaign, is finding out itself
how pleasant it is to be lied about, and thus
comes to its own defense:


1t is reported that E. Y. Turner said on the
platform in Auburn Hall last Saturday after
the roughs had forced the convention there as
sembled to adjourn to another place to transact
its business that Col. Blood bought into the
Chronicle with money furnished him by a
prominent Republican, for the purpose of split
ting the Greenback party in the State; that he
even went so far as to name the gentleman
from whom the money came. This story is
currently reported by other prominent fusion
lists.


Col. Blood takes this opportunity to say that
he does not know; that he never saw the gem
tleman referred to- that he never received a
dollar from or through him or any other Re-
publican, either to buy into or to run the Chron-
icle. Any one who makes or repeats this
charge utters a villainous libel and the truth
is not in him. The editors of the Chronicle
conformity challenge these INSCRIPTIONS libel
ers to produce scintilla of proof to sustain the
charge that dollar of Republican money was
ever furnished them. In case they fail they
shall stand forever with the brand of falsehood
on their backs. The columns of the Chronicle
are open to you for the proof. Furnish it or
eat your words! We say, It's false! 1t remains
for you to prove yonr infamous charges or for
felt the right to be called gentlemen.
Year: 1879

REMEMBER that the Greenback party is
the anti-prosperty party. 1t would not
have the people prosperous if it could help
it, 1t mourns over the revival of business
and the evidences of better times, and de-
sires to substitute fiat dollar for the honest
dollar the laboring man now receives.
Year: 1879

REMEMBER that seven months have
elapsed since resumption took place. Dur
ing all that time the Grecnback has been as
good as gold. Business has improved and
the country is once more on the road 10
prosperity. A vote for the Grecnback tick
ct is vote to undo all this, and to set us
afoat again on sea of irredeemable paper
currency.
Year: 1879

A VOTE for Garcelon is vote wasted.
He himself hath said it. He is only stalk
ing horse. The race is between Davis and
Smith. Vote for Davis and honest money
and stamp out this Greenback nonsense in
Maine
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mun1cat,ons that are not used.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley T. Pullen,
Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

CITIZENS, who believe in hard money doc
trine, irrespective of partisan bias, and
who desire to record your votes to-day in
vigorous protest against Greenback quack-
cry, remember that the vote you throw will
only aid in accomplishing that desirable end
by being polled for the Republican ticket.
See thst it is registered there.
Year: 1879

REPUBLICANS, be sure that every fraction
of your voting strength is polled. See to it,
neighbor, that not single Republican
name is left unchecked or unaccounted for
upon the checklists of your ward.
Year: 1879

REPUBLICAN GREENBACKERS, where will
you stand? With the men by whose side
you have fought so many years, or with the
men who in Mississippi swear they will
shoot Greenbackers at sigh? There are
but two sides to this question of human
rights. Which will you take?
Year: 1879

A VOTE for Davis is vote to keep the
dollar worth a hundred cents; vote that
get it in honest money that will not shrink
in bis hands while he is putting on his coat
to go out and buy his supply of groceries.
1t is vote every laborer should cast.
Year: 1879

THE Cincinnati Commercial confesses the
error it has made in advocating and unlim-
tied free coinage of silver; and asks: why
not unlimited coinage of silver right away?
Because we should not proceed alone In
matter that is to greater extent than any
thing else in the affairs of mankind, inter-
national; and, if we throw open our mints to
silver while those Of other nations are closed,
we would disturb our own business without
correcting the worldwide alteration. In
other words, we would abandon the double
standard with all its advantages, and fall
upon the single silver standard, which, in
our commercial position would be an i'm
mense and costly mistake"
Year: 1879

year ago:


A 'sWorkingman's' candidate for, say the
office of Governor, is more than likely to be
a man who has never had any experience in
public duties, or some demagogue who uses
the Workingmen's party simply as stepping
stone to his own advancement and its subse-
quent betrayal Because man has become
skilled in some particular branch OF labor or
has, by any MEANS become popular among his
fellow laborers, it no more follows that he
would make good Governor than that sue.
cessful tinancier would make good general OF
an army, or an eminent college professor
practical bank president, and if by any turn OF
the political wheel OF fortune, such an un-
trained man should be selected to an impor-
tant OF responsible position, it requires no very
far-seeing intelligence to see in the light OF
past experience, the bad results which are
pretty sure to follow.-Argus, Jan. s, 1878.
Year: 1879

Boston Journal. For man who has
been put forward as the representative
of laboring men, Mr.. Duplex Smith, the
Greenback candidate for Governor in Maine,
has a rather callous way of dealing with
people in trouble. Mr.. c. f. Jordan of Old
town publishes letter accusing Mr. Smith
of exacting from a man to whom he had
lent money, twenty per cent interest; CT
endeavoring to compel men in his service to
take fifty cents on the dollar for their labor;
of taking the last dollar from crippled lum-
herman in his employ; of harassing his debt
ors and taking even their furniture to meet
his demands, and of using his power as a
mortgage to compel men to vote for him.
Mr. Smith has not yet found it convenient
to answer these accusations, and it would
appear that he is more than commonly
thrifty in his money-lending operations.
Year: 1879

The Republicans of Cumberland county
have put into the field one of the best tickets
they ever nominated. All the men whose
names appear on it are eminently fit for the
positions for which they are named. The
ticket should be voted as a whole by Repub-
licans, and they should not permit them-
selves to be led to cut it by solicitations OF
Democratic candidates, no matter how
strong the personal liking they entertain for
those candidates. A vo'e for any man,
Democrat or Greenbacker, on the fusion
ticket, is vote in approval of the most cor
rupt and shameless coalition that ever dis
graced the politics of this State.
Year: 1879

rrOnl inc Jhspct NfhsJ Ilnleh.


John Ellis relates the following advent
ure, which happened on the night Of
August 25th: Last night about eleven
o'clock, as l was riding mule from
White Springs to Jasper, and when pass
ing through a pond where the water is
about two feet deep, | encountered huge
alligator. He was lying lengthwise the
road and little on one side Of the mid
die; of course | could not see him, nor
did the mule appear to see him until get
ting close upon one side, when he raised
himself and with one sweep Of his tail the
mule was thrown on his broadside; fortu-
nately for me, fell on the of side from
the gator, completely enveloped in mud
and water; before the mule could rise,
pnother sweep Of the monsters tail passed
over him, striking the water near me,
throwing up high in the air at least q
barrel Of water; before he made the third
strike, the mule recovered, and his surg
ing and jumping having hold Of the bride
fortunately for me again, my foot being in
the stirrup, ! was ierked beyond the reach
Of that terrible tail, which was once more
aimed at us. He must have been not less
than eight feet long and large in proper
ton. In the melee, | lost my overcoat
and umbrella, and having no weapons,
politely informed Mr.. Gator that ] would
not contend for the articles and left them
in his possession.
Year: 1879

A small boy with big cent in his hand
stood before a Michigan-avenue grocery
for long time yesterday before making
up his mind to enter. When asked what
he desired, he inquired;


"lf q boy should come here and get
trusted for a stick of gum, how much
would it bep"


Zone cent" was the reply.


"And if a boy should come here with
the cash, how much would it bep'


"Just the same"


Then guess I'll get trusted" quietly
replied the fnancier as he slipped tho cent
down into his pocket.
Year: 1879

FARMERS! would you have the farms
now under mortgage confscated by your
Shylocks! Then vote for resumption and
scarcity of money. If not, then vote for
legal tender money and plenty of it.
Year: 1879

WE have had too much class legislation.
The six million farmers in this country
have only one representative in the United
States Senate and only four in the House.
The bankers and merchants and lawyers
have had their own way.
Year: 1879

SPECIE payments mean that the coin is
there when it is not wanted and that 1t is
somewhere else when it is wanted. Every
SIX years of the present century up to 1861
stands in proof.
Year: 1879

The GreenbaCk party is to-day the only
national party. In the South we support
this great Union as nation, and not
confederacy liable to be blown away by
the chance breath of popular clamor from
any section.
Year: 1879

The prosperity of 1866 was caused by
the universal employment of labor. When
all the laborers are at work they can buy
all their families need and anything they
want. This makes a market for the. pro-
ducts OF the farm and the factory, and
gives employment to laborers and me-
ehanics. The trouble now is that the
people can't purchase half they need. If
every man, woman and child in the coun-
try had the means to buy all they really
need to make them only comfortable,
there would not be a dollars worth Of
goods left on the merchants shelves in the
whole country in one week. 1t is under
consumption not over-produCtion that is
the matter with the mechanics.
Year: 1879

"Such is the reciprocity of feeling be.
tween capitalist and laborer, that manu-
factories or workshops are scarcely ever
closed; the employers, in the dullest of
times, preferring to run them even at a
loss, rather than throw their employees
out of work; and the latter, under such
circumstances, cheerfully comply with
reduction in hours and wages, cutting
down their already bare necessities of life
to tide over the dark hour, confident that
when better times return their full time
and wages will be at once returned.n
Year: 1879

CORA HEzLEr's DREAM-IDA DUNN TAKEN

 HOME.

 Wheatland, June 23.-Thls morning Miss TIeziep was informed for the first time of the cause of her supposed sickness by Dr. Melton. She told the doctor that she did not believe that she had the brain fever. as she was formerly told, but something else was the case. After some time Dr. Melton asked her if she knew anything about the outrage. She replied that she did not hut fur the past three nights she has had & dream, which IS to the following effect; She thought that she saw two persons--s man with broad brimmed hat, and another person, whom she couId not describe. That trey came into her bed room during the night and struck her over the head with stme weapon. She also says that she thought that one of the persons pushed her down in the bed. There are three finger marks on her breast, which woald go tq in- dicate that her supposed dream was in fact reality.

 Miss Dunn was brought into town this evening to her fathers house. It Is hoped that both the girls will get along all right and he sblo to be nut soen,
Year: 1879

New YORK, Oct. 16.-Bonds to
the value of $28,100 were stolen
yesterday from a safe in the Office
Of Merritt Trexnal, q well known
iron merchant in the Coal and Iron
Exchange, by three strangers who
called apparently on business. The
loss was not discovered for several
hours after their departure.
Year: 1879

Since the death of Mai. Thornburgh,
on his way to protect the White River
Agency in COLORADO, nobody has dared
to hope that the Agent himself, the
venerable Nathan Cook Meeker-
Father Meeker," as he was commonly
called-had escaped the vengeance of
the redskins; but it was not ill Gen.
Merritt reached the deserted spot where
the agency building had stood, that the
exact truth became known. Meeker's s
body was found about 100 yards from
his house, stark naked, shot through
the head, and disfgured, with a piece
of carrel-stave driven into his mouth.
1t is easy to understand how the daugh-
ter Rose should, in her grief and indig-
nation, write TO the Denver Tribune :.
"The life of one common white man is
worth more than the lives of all the
Indians, from the beginning of their
creation until the present time. And
yet, such man as my father, with
brains, intellect, and power to move the
thoughts of men-his life is now igno-
miniously put out by the hand of a
savage foe whose life or soul is not
worthy of dog"


Mr.. Meeker's days were full of enter
prise and of energetic, useful work. He
at one time lived at Dongola, near the
southern extremity of this State, and
while there wrote a series of letters on
farming topics to the New York Trib-
1tNe, of which paper he afterward be-
came the agricultural editor. In this
latter capacity he first became interest
ed in the region where he met his death.
After carefully travelling over the Colo
RADIO country and observing its soil and
climate, he came to have great faith in
its productive capacity, and returned to
New York full of the idea of starting
colony to develop the agricultural
wealth of that far-of spot in the wilder
ness. He told Horace Greeley what
was in his mind, and that they might
talk the scheme over Greeley invited
him home to dinner. The result of the
conference was that Meeker was to pub
lish in the Tribune the next day his
proposals, inviting farmers who wished
to emigrate to Join his intended colony,
and Greeley was to back it with an
editorial article. The advertisement
and the editorial Endorsement duly ap-
peared, 600 or 700 colonists were in a
short time found who were willing to
enter into the plan proposed, and thus
was founded the town of Greeley, in
Wild county, Col, where Meeker's
home has been ever since, and where
the surviving members of his family
still hye.-Chica0O Inter Ocean.
Year: 1879

O'clock the body was taken out of the


coffin and placed upon the crib. Al


1880 the door Of the retort was opened


The body, covered with sheet which


had been saturated with alum


water, was thrust In and the


door closed. In few seconds dense


volume of black smoke rose from the


chimney, and the odor of burning flesh
greeted the olfactories of the few per-
sons who remained outside. The fur
mace was not sufficiently incandescent,
and the progress of the incineration
was rather slow. At o'clock the man
in charge of the furnace pronounced
the cremation accomplished. There
was no excitement, very little interest
being taken in the affair by the public.
The ultimate remains will not be re-
moved from the retort before Saturday
evening. What disposition will be
made of them is known only to the fam
lily. About ! o'clock story obtained
currency in Pittsburgh that, owing to
the furnace not being hot enough, the
remains were frying, or baking, instead
of burning. This occasioned some ex-
citement, which was allayed by tele-
gram from Washington, stating that
everything was going on satisfactorily.
The time was little longer than in the
cases of Baron Won Palm and Mrs.
Pitman, but no serious difficulty was
encountered, and the managers of the
affair pronounce it Pitts
)urgh Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1879

The wonderful cave recently discov-
cred, near Burnet is certainly one of
the greatest curiosities of the age.
While passing through this cave gen.
tleman discovered a small aperture
about six inches in width. Having q
pick he broke into this opening, and to
his astonishment he soon discovered a
large and airy apartment. Entering
this; he found what appeared to be a
stone table beautifully carved. Several
stone chairs stood in one corner of the
room. He continued his search, and at
last in dark corner he found the
skeleton of man. He attempted to
raise it from the floor, but though he
exerted his utmost strength he could
not move it. He says that it appeared
to be solid stone. 1t is impossible to
conjecture who was the hermit or how
long the skeleton has remained hidden
away in that silent cave.-BatTnet
(TeGds) Bulletin.
Year: 1879

Here is a frst-rate receipt for making
calcimine for walls Ten pounds whit
ing dissolved in hot or boiling water,
quarter of pound of glue, should be put to
soak over night in one pint of water, it may
then be melted on stove-stirring it frequent
ly; two ounces OF ultramarine blue, one ounce
water, and strain through stocking or thin
cloth, each in separate vessels; the whiting
may now be stirred well; if too thick, add
more hot water and strain through sieve into
good-sized pot add some of the blue and red
alternately until you get the shade required
When your color is determined, rour in the
glue, and, after mixing well, apply the wash
hot to the wall. Should the second coat not
be put on until the next day, heat the mixture,
as the glue will not mix well with the other in
gredients unless pretty warm.


ROUGH AND READY.
EDGFRTON Kan
Year: 1879

Perhaps my method of transferring en-
broidery or braiding patterns may be of use to
some one.


Procure sheet of printers paper and satur-
ate thoroughly with sweet oil, rubbing the oil
in we'll, so that some remains on the surface
Then take common blueing or chrome yellow,
and dust on thickly, rubbing in with pad
of several thicknesses of muslin. Repeat this
operation until the paper is highly, colored
Now place your transfer paper-colored side
down--over the goods and under the pattern.
Take a stilletto or blunt pointed pencil, and
trace the pattern. If properly done, you will
find correct copy plainly marked on the
material to be embroidered. OLA.


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Year: 1879

Here is receipt for canning green
corn: Fill the cans full of corn cut
from the cob, then put on the lids
and place the cans in kettle sufficiently filled
with water to cover them, except the tops.
Place the kettle over fire and boil three
hours; seal them while hot. The juice of the
corn is sufficient moisture. l have never known
this receipt to fail of giving entire satisfaction.


Mrs. b. o. WEAVER.
NORTH GROVE, Miami Co., Ind.