Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
January 11, 1870

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M AIXE LEGISLATURE. Senate* Mosdati Jan. 10. Met according to adjournment. l’rayor by Rev. l)r. RiCkv.r of Augusta. Records read and approved. A communication win received from B. K. Murray, Jr.. Adjutant General elect, signify ing his acceptance of the office. Read and sent down. On motion of Mr. Las a, Ordered, That a joint select committee, consisting of three on the part of tile Senate, with such as the House may join, he appoint ed to contract with some suitable person or persons to do the State Printing and Binding for the current year, subject to the approval of the Legislature; and Messrs. Lang of Ken nebec. Gareclon of Waldo, and Cleaves of Oxford were appointed on the part of the Senate. Sent down for concurrence. A communication was received from Hon. Wm. Caldwell, Treasurer of State, transmit ting an annual statement and accounts of the receipts and disbursements of the Treasury Department for the year ending December 31st, 1869. On motion of Mr. Tai.bot, Ordered. That the Report of the Treasurer this day laid before the Legislature, he refer red to a joint select committee of three' on the part of the Senate, with such ns tile House rnav join and Messrs. Talbot of Washington. Buffum of Penobscot, and Collins of Aroos took, were appointed on the pawt ot the Sen ate. Sent down for concurrence. On motion of Mr. Cesutso, Ordered, That a joint select committee, consisting of three on the part of the Senate, with such as the House may join, he appoint ed on the Governor’s Address, who shall re port a reference of its several subjects to ap propriate committees; and Messrs.,Cushing of Waldo, Minot of Kennebec, and Kingsbury of Penobscot, were appointed on the part of the Senate. Sent down for concurrence. On motion of Mr. Mikot, the Senate ad journed. House. i Monday, Jan. 10. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Rickf.k of Augusta. Papers from the Senate disposed of in con currence. The Speaker announced the Monitors of the House, as follows: First Division—Chamberlain of Ellsworth. Sf.cond Division—Hammond of Paris. Third Division—llinks of Bucksport. Fourth Division—Humphrey of Bangor. Fifth Division—Wasson of Surry. Sixth Division—Smith of Hodgdon. Seventh Division—Confortli of Fairfield. Kioiith Division—May of Winthrop. On motion of Mr. Vose of Wintcrport, Ordered, That the Clerk of this House sup ple each Monitor for the use of his Division, a "copy of tiie Revised Statutes and a copy of the Acts and Resolves of each year since the revision. A communication was received from B. B. Murray, Jr., Adjutant General, signifying his acceptance of the office. On motion of Mr. Whidden of Calais, the Senate order relating to the Joint Rules and Orders was taken from the table, and the Senate amendment adopted and passed. Mr. Barker of Stetson, laid on the table the remonstrance of Peter Charles Keegan against the right of William Dickey to hold a seat in this House. On motion of Mr. Whidden, the House adjourned. pail]) Juniubfr fonntaL AUGUSTA, Tuesday Morning, January 11, 1870. FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. The Legislature of New York has re scinded the former vote of that bod}' rati fying the Fifteenth Amendment, leaving that important measure to run the risk of defeat. Whether a Legislature may re peal its ratification of a constitutional amendment is a question not absolutely settled, and about which there are con flicting opinions. It seems not unreason able, however, that the power to adopt or ratify, may also annul such adoption or ratification. If this be the ease New York is against the Fifteenth Amendment. We hope and believe that her vote is not need ed to secure its adoption by a sufficient number of States to ensure its becoming a part of the Constitution. Thus we have another prominent exam ple of the hostility of the democratic party to the principles of equality and justice maintained by the republican party. This amendment if adopted would seeure to evi ry citizen of the United States the right of suffrage and of holding office let his color or race be what it might, and would end forever the contest over the negro. Mason an d Toombs contended no more per sistently for negro slavery than the demo crats strive to prevent negro voting. The negroes as a mass are poor and ignorant, degraded by years of unjust servitude, but they are men and citizens and ought to have the rights of men and citizens. They need the ballot for their own protection. With the ballot they can take care of them selves, without 11 me government must guard their rights with bayonets or they would soon be slaves again. It is n meas ure of justice to them and economy to the government. If poverty and ignorance exclude them from the ballot the same principle carried a step farther would ex clude poor and ignorant white men. If poverty is to be a test let white men look out for themselves. Encroachments upon human rights are not bounded by color. Whites have been slaves in the galleys and mines, chained to the oar and confined in the bowels of the earth, and may he again if democracy such as wc have in this coun try is to rule and turn backward the march of enlightened opinion. What Napoleon is endeavoring to do in France by cunning and menace, by conciliation and a stand ing army as a last resort, the democratic party Is doing in America by its opposition to enlarging the liberties and rights of an oppressed people. This is partly oil ac count of prejudice, but it is none the less dangerous for that reason. If the plea of human lights is unavailing to reach the understanding of the opposers oi the Fif teenth Amendment, it would appear that the argument of economy, about which they have so much to say, might have some effect upon them. Better on the score of economy to clothe the blacks w ith the full rights and privileges of citizenship and let them depend upon themselves than to keep them in a state of dependence upon the government. (live them the sanio chance that other men have anti then we can charge them with the full responsibil ity of their own support. If they have au equal chance for a living they will have no claims to sympathy should they fail to se cure one if. however, they are to have one hand tied they will probably not succeed and must return to bondage or be support ed by the government. We would give, them the ballot and let them take rare of themselves, having nobody to blame but themselves if they were unsuccessful. This is what the democrats are opposed to doing. If they suppose the negroes are capable of sustaining themselves under the disabilities which their party would im pose upon them, they must admit that they believe the black is more competent than the white, for the white would probably fail in similar circumstances. While some of the States have conferred suffrage upon the negroes they havo no security for re taining it unless it is put into the constitu tion of the United States. Once fixed in the constitution it will be beyond repeal; until it is there it is liable to be cut off in any State which has adopted it. We do not believe the amendment which will do this can be defeated, but if it is not no thanks to the democracy. It is humiliating to know that the result in New York, the repeal of the adoption of the amendment, is due to the republi cans of that State. The responsibility lies at their door. Through their own apathy, bad management, personal quarrels, and disregard of organization they allowed themselves to be defeated by a minority. They fought their own party more fiercely than they did the opposition, paying but little attention to nominations, and splitting upon side issues that should have been settled in caucuses and conventions. Some of the leading papers sowed the seeds of disorganization before election, and boiled over with virtuous indignation after elec tion at the crop of disasters which they had been instrumental in producing. They stand now a spectacle for other States to behold, responsible for their State giving its voice and influence against the most important measure with which the repub lican party is charged, the consummation of all its struggles and the crowning glory of the victory over rebellion. May the lesson not only do them good, but have a salutary effect upon the republican party everywhere. The amendment we believe is safe, but the influence of New York will be felt against it in every State where it is still an open question. STATE TREASURERS REPORT. The report of the State Treasurer is a business-like document, all figures and facts, not figures of rhetoric and imagina tive facts, but the dry, hard, substantial figures and facts of arithmetic and reality, with nothing superfluous in any of its pages. The receipts for the year 1869 were Amount received In ltdiO, $939,814.50 Curfti in Treasury, Jau. 1,18*19, 215,723.93 •1,155,540.4* The expenditures were Amount of payment* for 18**9. $919,609.80 C’a*h balance in Treaaury liec. 31,1809, 235,930.(53 $1,155,540.43 Then follows the Treasurer’s account with tlic State, showing in detail the re ceipts and expenditures of the year. The estimated receipts for the year 1870 are $1 ,386,698,86; estimated expenditures, j 1,229,910.47. The resources of the State amount to $1,330,708.08; the liabilities are $9,882,082.86. The Treasurer says the commissioners on municipal war debts have completed their labors and issued to him certificates of the sum awarded each city, town or plantation in the State, amounting to 105,188,33, and bonds for the payment of this award, dated October 1st, 1869, pay able in twenty years, with coupons at tached for the semi-annual interest have been prepared and arc ready for delivery. Tables are given showing the amount re imbursed to each town and city, arranged by counties. The total to counties is as follows: Androscoggin, $150,675.00 Aroostook, 64,025.00 Cumberland, 429,675.00 Franklin, 92,391.66 Hancock, 191,891.67 Kennebec, 276,191.66 Knox 159,708.33 Lincoln, 124.633.33 Oxford, 171,783.32 IVnobscot, 379,091.67 Piscataquis, 76,658.38 Sagadahoc, 108,625.00 Somerset, 175,783.33 Waldo, 189,916.68 Washington, 186,291.67 Vork, 328,441.68 $3,105,183.33 In relation to the State debt we copy from the report ns follows: At the commencement of the late war, or on the first day of January 1861, the funded debt of this State was $609,500 and of this debt there has been paid since that date, 315,500 Leaving outstanding of the old debt, $.'iS4,msi Added to this is the war loan of lstil, M00,000 War loan of 1863, 825,000 Hountv loan of 1*3, 47.’.,000 War Ilian of 1801, 2,*12,500 Municipal war debt, loan of it,084,400 Present fttndeil debt, $8,100,000 Although at the time of writing this report tile municipal war debt bonds have not been delivered to the cities and towns, the trea surer treats the loan ns an indebtedness out standing, as the bonds are all dated October 1, 1869. Thus it appears that as the result of the w ar, the funded debt has been increased $7,716,900, but the sinking fund established for the payment of this debt will be ample to meet it as it matures. This debt will become due as follows In 1870, $33,000 1871, 40,000 1871, war loan, 800,000 1872, 40,000 1 1873 50,000 1874, 50,000 1875, 30,000 1876, 60,(MX) i 1877 51.000 1878, 30,000 1880, bounty loan. 475,000 1883, war loan, 525,000 1889, 2,832,500 1889, municipal war debt loan, 3,084,400 $8,100,900 The fluids held in trust by the State amount to the sum of $1,691,283.81. They are The Sinking Fund, $972,530.00 l’ermament School Fund, $284,058.58 Public Lands, $124,750.4) Agricultural College, $104,694.70 Hates College, $10,000 School District No. 2, Town of Madison $1000 Madawaska Territory $5000; Penobscot Indian, $59,074.82 Passamaquoddy Indian, $25,613.71 San ford Legacy, $1300 Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, $100,000 Soldiers' Allotments, $3,261.59. The Treasurer recommends that he be authorised to exchange, when desired by holders, coupon for registered bonds. He has lmd no occasion to avail himself of any temporary loan to meet the wants o00, and instal ments due on notes to Massachusetts, $25,000. The receipts from the land office the past year, are $29,724.48. For the year 1870 a State tax of $1,200,000 will have to be assessed. For the Journal. Oldrn Time.—A Scrap of History, Jio. S. On the east side of the river, within what is c died ih North Parish, there lived some sixty years ago an old man hy the name of James Gilley. We are not positive as to his Christ ian nnme, but think we are light. He was said to be 124 years old when he died The writer well recollects seeing him helped out of a wagon on one occasion to cast his vote at the State election (Massachusetts then), which was his constant practice. He having no genealogical history of Ills family nor even the record of his birth, was unable to decide upon his precise age, hut said he recollected the great frost in Ireland which took place when he was a hoy ten years old. This cir cumstance gave a just cine to his right age, as it is now known that the frost alluded to happened about two hundred years ago. The writer was well acquainted with one of his sons, and used to transact business with him. We omitted to mention in its proper connec tion some things in relation to the Edmund Fortis affair in Vassalboro'. As soon as it was known that the young lady was missing whom he murdered, there was great excite ment and consternation in the neighborhood, and many persons turned out to make dili gent search, among whom and foremost was Edmund Fortis. After an unsuccessful search for a number of days they thought they would try one day more. Edmund still leading the van. It so happened that towards night most of the party came together near a large log which lay across a small cavity in the earth. Fortis immediately jumped upon it and said “I will hunt here and you all can proceed further". This circumstance raised instantaneous sus picion, when one of the party discovered a small mound of leaves in the cavity under the log. which he dispersed with his hands anil there found the body of the murdered girl. This event w as the main feature in his con viction, although he afterwards made a full confession. It may not be out of place in this connection to relate another event rather more novel than tragical. There lived a lawyer in Augusta about that time more noted for his knowledge of the science of law than that of agriculture. It so happened on one occasion that he saw his neighbor standing in his own little patch of cabbages which he had previously, cleared of the weeds, when the lawyer interrogated and suid, ‘‘Mr. H how happens it that your cabbages are so free from weeds when mine are entirely overrun; what shall I do to clean them out" As they were on terms of great intimacy, Mr. H- ironically answered, ‘‘turn your cow in,” without the least suspicion that he would. He did however order his servant man to turn her in, which he did, when she soon devoured cabbages, weeds and all. The lawyer instead of playing off some like trick upon Mr. H-, sued him at the law and bought up every hit of puper lie could find against him for this purpose. Mr. II being resolute would not pay except upon the tail end of an execution. The result was it cost Mr. H-about two thousand dollars to get out of the scrape. When the lawyer had clone his best in his persecution and abuse, Mr. II-. holding behind him a horse-whip, soon after met W-, the lawyer, in the street, and gave him a severe whipping. A trial before a Justice of the Peace resulted in Mr. II-'k paying fifty dollars and costs. On leaving the Court Mr. H-was heard to say,J“cheap enough, too.” Another incident in relation to the lawyer will go to show that he was better versed :n Bigelow and Black stone than in Agriculture. Among the stuff’ he raised upon the small farm he then im proved were beans which he had harvested .and put upon his barn floor, but instead of threshing them out, which would occupy only an hour or so, lie paid a man good wag, s per diem to shell them out by hand, which occu pied him a number of weeks. c micmicu to say something anout two or three more items of local history in this con nection, sueli as the salmon fishery, which was a great interest at that time, as also of the patricians of Augusta, and one or more others still remembered, but as we have not the time and as your columns will be mainly occupied during the winter with Legislative matter, we will decline for the present witli the hope that our forthcoming history of Augusta will be so full and complete in all these nnd every other particular that it will not he necessary for us to continue or resume these local scraps of history. We therefore close with the hope that what we have said will beget a strong desire in the mind of many persons to subseribo for this popular work, soon to he issued from the press. An Old Citizen. Last Saturday morning Annie Dougher, employed as a press girl in the printing estab lishment of Drown Thurston in Portland, while feeding an Adams press, fainted and fell forward, so that her left hand was drawn into the press and terribly jammed by the rising of the form. No bones were broken, but the bones nnd integuments were terribly crushed. Sheriff Teague of Androscoggin County has appointed the following deputies:— Thomas Littlefield (Jailor) Auburn; Win. Keene, Mechanic Palls; George W. Coombs, Lisbon Pails; E. W. Dolly, Livermore Kails; P. K. Ktrout. Durham, and O. G. Douglass, Lewiston. GENERAL NEWS. Daniel W. Sawyer has been appointen Dep uty Collector at Boothbay, Maine. A four story brick building in Concord, N. II.. owned by Charles Austin was burned Sun dny morning. Loss 87000. Insured for 1 815000. Several occupants of the buildings lost considerable property. Hon. William P. Weeks, a prominent and widely known public man of New Hampshire, committed suicide by hanging at his house in Canaan, Saturday morning. A partially de- j ranged mind and fear of pecuniary losses are f supposed to have been the cause of the rash deed. John Nixon, a highly respected citizen of New Orleans, was shot and killed at the Bos ton Club House in that city Saturday night. 1 The ease is shrouded in mystery. No arrests have been made. A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says that in less than one week news w ill be received here from England that will have a decided bearing upon the question whether the United States or England will be tbe first to recognize Cuba. A special mes senger is now on his v ay to this crUitry a Cuban, bearing news from Lord Clarendon that will toll tbe tale. A Mississippi Democratic paper says Gov ernor elect Alcorn said in a recent interview that, though Southern in his feelings, he should never go hack on the negro or the carpet-bag ger. He meant to have a full, fair, impartial administration of the laws, to tiie end that all the citizens of the State may have certain se curity in all their rights. Inrrndlar) it Framingham, Miss.—A Hillowrll Min Arrested. On the evening of Tuesday, January 4, a house not far from Framingham Centre, Mass., wits burned. It was occupied by an unmarried woman, named Mary Ann Brod erick. whose remains were found in the ruins, in such condition that it was impossible to tell whether she had died by violence or not. f>he bad about $1100 in a savings bank, whieli was left by a deceased sister. Two days after wards a man calling himself Lcander Pink ham. and claiming to have relations in Hal lowed, Maine, was arrested, and on examina tion held before a Trial Justice which resulted in the committal of the prisoner to wait the action of the Grand Jury at the next term of Court. The evidence only went to prove that l’inkham visited the Broderick house on the night of tlie fire, but no motive is disclosed but the larceny of some hens. There are some who think Finkham purposed a higher crime than hen-tliieving in going to the house, and base their conjectures partly upon the fact that the woman became alarmed for the I safety of her money at the Savings bank, in consequence of the recent attempt to rob the Framingham bank, and affirmed a purpose to withdraw her deposit. As she was at the i bank on Tuesday for the purpose, as it now appears, of getting her interest money, tile inference is drawn that Pinkliam expected to get tlie $i»00 by. going to the house. The firing of a house in order to cover up a hen robbery is not thought to be a sufficient ex planation. Finkham’s account of himself during the evening is that he rode around the town, in directions other than that of tlie Broderick house; that he picked Up a woman whom he did not know, and she accompanied him on the ride; that at one place they stopped and took a walk in the woods, and at this time the horse ran away. He says he put a blanket on the horse, but there is evidence that the blanket remained in the wagon unrolled. He also states that they visited the Wilkins house during the evening. This Mr. Wilkins contradicts. In regard to other inculpating circumstances developed in the evidence no explanation is offered by Finkham, except that he says he bought the hens of a Mr. Fierce, who denies all knowledge of the trans action. Finkham testified before the Coro nor’s jury, but his evidence is not disclosed. The Portland papers say that last Thursday night. Mr. Daniel C. Shaw of the main office in Portland, returned from the westward, whither he had gone to inquire for the frater nity in this State into the merits of the strike. He met a number at the Falmouth and the mat ter was talked over, the feeling seeming to be in support of the strikers. They adjourned to the office and there met Supt. Bedlow who had just returned to Portland from New York, lie presented the position of the company in its true light, and finally the operators, through Mr. Livermore, declared their inten tion to stick”. Mr. Eckert, President of the company, at New York, in reply to the report of the meeting sent him, said that the opera tors of this division of the line alone stood in support of the company, and that their faith fulness was appreciated, and their interests should be properly considered as they acted justly. We learn from the Gardiner Reporter thnt at the annual election the Gardiner Mechan ic’s Association held last week the following officers were elected: Hon. Joshua Gray, President; D. C. Palmer, Vice President; Geo. L. Rogers, Secretary; H. K. Morrell, Librarian, Treasurer and Collector. Hon. Robert Thompson, R. H. Gardiner, Hon. Jhon Berry, F. G. Richards, and Geo. L. Rogers, were chosen Directors. The Uxfored Democrat chronicles the fol lowing accidents at Upton; Mr. Clark, of Byron, workingfor H. H. McKecn, near Rapid river, chopped his foot nearly off. Gilbert Tyler, of Grafton, got his leg badly jammed while at work for George Demerctt, of Errol. E. J. Brown, son of Jas. Brown, Esq., of Grafton, was knocked down by a tree falling on him. A runaway State Prison convict named Cyrus Brackett, a horse-stealer, and sentenced by Judge Goddard in Portland last September, for three years, was caught last Saturday in Vermont, near the Canada line, making tracks northward. He is probably ere this under Mr. Warden Rice’s care. The Gardiner Reporter says the people of Litchfield Corner are to have a steam-mill for lumber purposes. Parties offered to build und und carry on the same, if the residents would raise one thousand dollurs for them, which sum was promptly subscribed. Orlando W. Marrett, Esq., a prominent citizen of Portland, died on Kumlav. I Official List of Members OF THE ■49th Legislature of Maine. SENATORS. Androscoggin, Daniel Holland.* Aroostook. Samuel \V\ Collins. Cumberland, M. D. L. Lane,* Charles l'. '_iibb»,* lleiirv Carvill, Thomas 11, Heed.* Franklin, Edwin R. French. Hancock, John A. Buck,* Hiram S. Bartlett. Kennebec, Thomas S. Lang.* Joshua t*rar, tieorge E. Minot. Knox, Haggles S. Torrey, Philander J. Carfeton.* Lincoln, Beniamin D. Metcalf Oxford, William W. Bolster,* Thomas P. Cleaves Penobscot, Thomas R. Kingsbury,* Charles BnfThm,* Timothy Fuller. Piscataquis, John Mayo.* Sagadahoc, J. P. Morse’.* Somerset, Stephen 1>. Lindsey,* Luther H. Webb.*’ Waldo, T. II. Cushing,* Lorenzo (Jnrcelon.* Washington, F. Loring Talbot,* Putnam Kolfe. York, Samuel Ilanson,* John Nealluy, J oseph C. Roberts. All Republicans with '.ne exception of Aroostook and Knox. REPRESENTATIVES. ANDROSCOGGIN—ENTITLE TO 8. Republicans. Auburn, Granville Blake,* Lewiston, Samuel K. Ik an p,* John S. 1*. Ham.* Leeds, Joseph G. Gott. Lisbon, Edward Plummer. Poland, Andrew J. Weston. Turner, Zebulon 11. Bearce.—7. Democrat. Minot, Marshal Jortlan.—1. Aroostook—entitlet to 6. Republicans Fort Fairfield, Isaac Wilder. Hodgdon, Joseph O Smith.* Honlton, Cyrus M. Powers.* Presque Isle, Daniel Stickiicr. Sherman, William Irish.*—5. Democrat. Fort Kent, William Dickey.—1. Cumberland—entitled to 18. Republicans. Baldwin, James G. Sturgis. Cape Elizabeth, yrue Cole.* Freeport, S. A. Holbrook.* Harrison, Orrin Bartlett. Naples, Orrin Douglas*. Portland, Thomas K. Twitched,* Pen ival Bonney, Henry H Burgess. Joshua W. Waterhouse. Westbrook, George W. Hammond.* Yarmouth, Andrew Leighton.*—11. Democrats. Brunswick. Conn Jordan. Cumberland, Samuel M. Brackett. Falmouth, Adoniram J. Dearborn. Gorham, Koscoe G. Harding. Harpswed, Lemuel If. Stover.* New Gloucester, Albert Sawyer. Windham, Ebenezer H. Mayo —7. Franklin—entitled to5. Republicans. Chesterville, John C. Wheeler. New Vineyard, John McLain. Strong, Washington L. Daggett. Wilton, Leonard F. Green. Weld, Major A. Phillips.—5. HANCOCK—ENTITLED TO D. Republicans. Bii 'ksport, Sylvanus T Hints.* Brooksviile, George V. Mills. Ellsworth. James H. Chamberlaiu.* Gouldsboro*, William L. Guptill. Hancock, Rowland M. Young. Sedgewiek, Daniel M. Mean*. Surry, Samuel Wasson.* Tremont, Abraham C. Milliken.—8. Democrat. Deer Isle, Samuel W. Campbed.—1. KENNEBEC— ENTITLED TO 13. Republicans. Albion, Kara Pray.* Augusta, A. B. Farwell,* Joseph Baker.* Benton. Asher H. Barton.* Gardiuer, D. C. Palmer, llallowell, Isaac F. Thompson.* Litchfield, Oramendel Smith. Pittston. Warren R. Lewis. Re ad field, Gustavus Clark. Sidney, John S. Cushing,* A’as sal boro* Orrick Hawes.* Waterville, Reuben Foster.* Wintkrop, John May.*—13. Knox—ENTITLED to 8. Republicans. Rockland, Robert Crockett,* Sidney M Bird. Washington, Hiram Bliss, Jr.*—3. Democr,Us. Camden, Isaac W. Sherman. St. George, Josiah Waterhouse. Thomas ton, Alfred Watts.* Vinulhaveu, William II. Paige. Warren, Edwin Smith, Jr.*—5. Lincoln—entitled to 7. Republicans. Bristol, John Mears Edgecomb, Austin Greenliel Jefferson, J. 8. Ames. Newcastle, David Boyd.—I. Democrats. Boothlmy, C yrus MeKown. Damuriscottu, (.eorge -S. Berry. Waldoboro’ Doae lfc'ed.*—3. Oxford—entitled to 9. Republicans. Albany, Saiti’l L. Gould, Bethel* Israel G. Kimball.* Hiram, John C. Mason. Norway, George P. Jones. Porter, Moses S. Moulton. Paris, Henry E. Hammond. Romford, Jonathan K. Maitin. Woodstock, Aldcn Chase.*—8. Detnocrat. Dixfield, George S. Holman.—1. rKJ field, John Q. Adams.—1. Waldo—entitled to p. Republicans. Belfast, Willard P. Harriman.* Belmont, George Alexander. Liberty. James Lewis. Swanville, A. K. Nickerson. Searsport, William McGliver}-.* Trov, James Cotton. Unity, John T. Main. Wiuterport, T. W. Voac.*—8. Democrat. Isleboro’, Calvin W. Sherman.—1. Washington—entitled to 10. Republicans. Calais, Charles R. Whidden.* Cherry field, Harrison Hume. Kastp'ort, Aldan Bradford.* East Machias, Charles Cox. Lubee, E. Adams Davis.* Machias, John Pierce. Robbinston, Ruths Gutes.—7. Democrats, Harrington. A.JndaonRay. Meddyoomps, Alexander McDongal. Whiting, Win. S. Peavey.—3. I York—ENTITLED TO 15. /{^publicans. Acton, Caleb Burbank.* liollis, John W. Lane. Kittten*, Edwin A. Duncan.* Kennebunk, James M. Stone.* Limerick, Albert O. Libby. Lebanon, Benjamin II Lord. North Berwick, Ceo T. Wentworth. Parson Held, Har t». O. Smith. Saco, Edwin B. Smith.—ib Democrats. Buxton, Thomas II. Berry. Biddeford, John II. Burnhain. John Adams. Kennebunknort, Enoch Cousins.* South Berwick, John Dennett.* Wells, Frank B. Mildram.—ti. •Member of a former Legislature. THE KENNEBEC JOURNAL. (Established in 1826.) Enlarged and Improved. A POLITICAL FAMILY NEW8PAPER. Hot Excelled by any in the State. Just Enlarged and Printed on Mew, Plain, and Handsome Typo! Having Full Reports of Legislative proceeding*; carefully prepared Political Article*. Facts and Sta tistics; Local, Domestic and Foreieu News; Corres pondence; Tales, Poetry, Agricultural and other Miscellaneous Matter. Xo Increase of Mubscrlptlon Price—A Good Time to Subscribe. The Weekly Kennebec Journal. The Kennebec Journal is In the Forty-fourth year of Us age. It has just been enlarged, "and is now a THIRTY-SIX COLUMN PAPER, Its size not being exceeded l»y that of anV other paper in the State, and surpassed by but few in other States. 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Tunis: $2 00 per annum in aileance. *2 23 at the end of six months, and #2.90 at the end of the year. Published every Wednesday. Daily Kennebec Journal, Will be lentil every morning, (Sundays excepted,) on and after the first of January. Will give Full and Accurate Report* of the Proceedings of the Legislature from day to day; Report* of Im portant Hearings before Committees; Abstracts of Discussions in the Boards of Education and Agriculture; will have the Latest News by Tele graph the same as other dailies, and will also have Editorials. Correspondence, Locals and the usual Summaries of News, also the most Import ant Speeches of the Session. The Discussion* in the Board of Education will give New mid Additional Importance to the Daily Journal, as it will contain reports of them. Terms, $7.00 per year; $$.00 for the Session. *3- Member* of the Legislature will do their con stituent* and themselves a favor to iuterest them selves in getting subscribers to the above publica tion*. 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FULLER SON, DRUGGISTS OF AUGUSTA, have Wilton's Catarrh Cure, For the Cure of CATARRH Any person buying a bottle of them and using it without being helped, they will refund the money. It will also cure I Herrons Headache, Toothache, Neuralgia, and Earache. It will remove all pain from a burn or scald in a few iumutes. Call at their store and try it with (lie PATENT INHALING TUBE, Free of Charge, and sati»fy yourselt of its superior merit before purchasing. ly€ FOB Cabinet Organs and lelodeons! There it no Book equal to it! Clark’s New Method FOR

Already established as the leading text book for instruments of the Organ class, in Colleges. Semi naries, Conservatories Ac., and is used by the best J teachers. For Self-instruction it is unexcelled. Full of the finest Pieces, Voluntaries, Ac. [Copy righted 18GP.J Price ii.ou. sent postage paid on j receipt of price. OLIVER DITSON A CO., 877 W ashington Street, Boston. C. H. DITSON CO., 711 Broadway, New York. GEO. E. BR1CK8TT, M. I).. PHYSICIAN SURGEON, AUGUSTA, MK. i Office orer Hunt*. Cap Store. West End of the Kennebec Bridge. Residence on Spring Street. my80NJ8 PIANO TUNING! wk. riillK Subscriber would inform the gaTinMitfzarM 1 citizen* of Augusta and vicinity. II A ^^1 that he will give prrtoiwt attention to 1 1 tuning I'ianos. Orders left at hi* res idenee, »7 Wintht op .Street, will receive promp t attention. M. C. MILIJKKN. febo-tf Teacher of Piano and Organ. House Lots for Sale SOM K of the most desirable House Lots to be had in the city, adjoining Western Avenue, are now offered for sale. For particulars enquire of RICH ARPS A HALL, No, 3. Granite Hall Block. PRICES FROM #300 TO #600. I Augusta, Nov. 9, 1899. _ 49tf J. W. TOWARD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Ai«rm, mb. Residence on Green Street, opposite the Melho dial Church. ____SQtf HENRYO. A. A. NICH0L8, MASONS AND SLATERS. VLL work in their line done promptly and in a good, workmanlike manner, ny the day or job. Particular attention paid to repairs of slate roofs, computing cisterns, cellars, »tc. Orders left at A P. Gould’s Stove Store, first door above Railroad Bridge, promptly attended to. HENRY' O NICHOLS, ALBERT A. NICHOLS. Augusta, Jan. 1, I8G9. Furnaces 2 COAL OR woon, The Best in the Market, AT.T. SIZES, For Large or Small Dwellings! AT E. D. NORCROSS’, No. ^Smith’s Block, Water Street, Augusta. “muSTsuiTraisaES ABE MADE OVEB AS GOOD AS NEW, AT Wheeler’s Upholstery Rooms, ON STATE STREET, A.xi|pu.tn, Mo. Augusta, Sept. 41,1809. 3#tf

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