Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
March 2, 1870

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PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), BY SPRAGUE, OWEN NASH. TERMS: SEVEN DOLLARS PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPIES, FOUR CENTS. AUGUSTA, ME., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1870. NO. 52. YOL. 1 JUwubft Journal. Published on Water, Foot of Court Street, AUGUSTA, MAINE. BT SPKAttlE, OWES NASH. $ailg lunufiff Journal j Is issued every morning, except Sundays. Contains the latent news by telegraph and mail and gives the proceedings of the Legislature in Aili also reports of proceedings of important commit tees and the Agricultural and Educational depart meuts. Terms, $7 per annum in advance. $8 if paymer is nut made within the year. Single copies 4 cents to be had at the bookstores and at tiiis office. Advertisements one Inch in length, three in sertious or less, $1.00; 46 cts. for every suksequen insertion. Longer advertisements, or those inserts for any considerable length of time, will be inserte* at favorable terms to the advertiser. Special Notice* 23 per cent, additional. Amusement Notices* per square per week iuMtln Jicnncbet Journal, Published every Wednesday morning, Is the largest folio paper in the State, containinj news, political articles, agricultural and scientific matter, tales, poetry, anecdotes, household recipes markets, Ac Ac. Terms $2 per annum in advance, Transient Advertisements, $1.50 per inch fo first week; 25 cents per week lor each subsequen insertion. Special Notices, $2 00 per inch for first week 50 ends per woek for each subsequent week. Business Notice*, in reading columns, 20 cent* per line for first insertion 10 cents per line for eacl subsequent insertion. All transient advertisements to be paid for !r advance. I. C. I. C. I. c. 7, 8, O. SOMES’ Oyster, Fruit and Confectionery SALOONt Opposite Masonic Block, Gardiner, Me* THE BEST OYSTEtt COOK in the Stale. Solid Oyiten, 90 edits per quart. Tf 9, To the people at large. Who thi«t notice may read. And yourselves in Gardiner should find If you want a good stew. You should know where to go lf* to Somes', 7, 9, C. T. SOMES, Gardiner, Jan. 1st, 1870. GJau70-tf C. H. STARBIRD, Photographer and Artist, tiBUlITE BLOCK, Newly opposite Post Offlee, (Up Stairs,) Make, all the bent .tries of Picture, In tbe Art. Fieri ESS cofIedT* ENLARGED, AND Finished In India Ink or Colors. At price* that cannot fail to be satisfactory. j The public are invited to call and examine Specimens mad* and finished at hi* room*. AUGUSTA. ME. tLjsnTO.1, j Brewster’s Hotel, SKOWHECAN, ME. THIS large and commodious Hotel id situated at the head of the Falls on the Kennebec river, in tiie enterprising village of Skowhegan, the terminun of the Portland A Kennebec R K This is one of the beat arranged Hotels for family borders there is iu the State, and a better place foi Summer resort, cannot be found in Maine. The best of water, beautiful drives on the bank.-, of the river, Ashing and sailing ponds in the vicinity, trout brooks, where you cau catch an abundance of the spotted brook trout any day in the year. Prices for permanent or transient boarding are verv low, so our customers can afford to come often and star a good while. We also have a large airy stable to board horses for the guests that wish to bring their teams with I them. Also one of the be*t half-mile trotting parks in the State, is connected with the House, free for the guests to train their horses or drive for pleasure, j tl ijan-tt 8. B. BRKWSTJCR, Proprietor. BATH HOTEL, By O. M. Plummer, BATH, HE. Board, $1 per Ban. tlljan-ly Photographs Melanotvpes, At the lime OLD PLACE, At the »me OLD PRIfKI, vim i 9 1-9 tize Picture! in Cards for HO cent*. 4 1.4 60 4 1-4 in Card envelopes, 50 cts. 1 5x7 in Mat, 50 16 TINTyPES for 25 cents. A good iMiortinent ot FBA1HEM, ALBUMS, Ac., note on hand. MjS~ Pnitioulmr attention given to copying. 8 Doom south or the Post OOce, AIUISTA. VK tljan70-3m It. BAILEY. Cough Cantly 1irEYDK.1BlIR1. Brown, Portland, Colonel, Assistant Inspect*! General. Eugene F. Sanger, M. D., Bangor, Colonel, Assistant Sur* geoa General. Aidi-dt-Campy uith rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Selden Connor, Thomas W. liydc, George Varney, Nathan Cutler. Albert O Morgan, Lewiston, Military’ fcac’y to Governor. Prentiss M. Fogler, Augusta, Messen’r to Gov. and Council Benjamin F. Harris, Machias, Supt. of Public Buildings George L. Oood&le, Brunswick, State Asaayer. Cyrus F. Brackett, Brunswick, State Assayer. Daniel Winslow, Westbrook, Inspector Gen. of B«*ef k Pork David Fern aid, Camden* inspector General of Fish. Geo. F. Dillingham, Old town, Agt. Penobscot Tribe Indians Geo. F. Wadsworth, East port, Agt. Pass&maqu'y Tribe Ii. Albert W Paine. Bangor, Bank and Insurance Examiner. Asa W. Wildes, Skowhegan, Samuel H. Blake, Bangor, Railroad Commissioners. Solomon T. Corser, Portland, y SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. John Appleton, Bangor, Chief Justice. ASSOCIATE Jl'STICES. Edward Kent, Bangor. Jonas Cutting, Bang >r. Jonathan G Dickerson, Belfast Charles W. Walton, Portland. William G- Barrows, B run-wick. (diaries Danforth, Gardiner. Rufus P. Tapley, Saco. ATTOR.MKT OEXKKAL Thomas B Reed, Portland. INSANE ASYLUM. II**nry M. Harlov, M. Superintendent and Physician. Bigelow T. Sauboru, M. D-, Assistant Physician. THIRTEEN. W®iai!i It Lapham, M. D., Wouatock, President. John T. Oilman, >1. I) Portland. Dr. M R. Ludwig, Thomaston. Hon. Geo. A. Front, Springvale. Hon. A. 0. Wakefield, Bangor. STATE PRISON Warren W. Rice, Warden. Elbridge Burton, Deputy Warden. ixsplc i ou3. William W lion. Rufus Priuoe. STATE REFORM SCHOOL. Hou. E. W. Woodbury, Superintendent TRUSTEES. Hon. Noah Woods, Bangor, President. W. E. Gould, Portland, Secretary. Hon. Nathan Dane, Alfred, Treasurer. Hon. Jeremy W. Porter, Strong. Tobias Lord, St uidUh. STATIC COLLEGE OK AGRRTLTCRK AXD TH K MBCHAXIC ARTS Trustees Hon. Abner Cobum, Skuwbegau, President. Hon. Thomas S. Lang, Augusta. 11 >n. William P Wingate, Bangor. Hou. Lyndou Oak, Garland. Rev. Samuel F. Dyke, Bath J. C. Madigan, Houlton. Hou. Uaiah Stetson, Bangor. Treasurer. Samuel Johns m, A. M., Oruoo, Secretary. Executive Committee. Hon. Wm. P. Wingate, Hou. Lyndon Oak, Hon. Thomas Examining Committee. Joshua L. Chamberlain. LL. D.; Rev. Amory Battles; floa. Thomas S. Lang. Faculty. Merritt C. Pt-ruald A. M Actiug President and Professor of Mathenntics and Physics.” Samuel Johnson, A. M., Farm Superintendent and In* structor iu Agriculture. Stephen F Peck ham, A M., Professor of Chemistry. Calvin utter, M. L>., Lecturer ou Anatomy, Physiology and Ilvgene CorydoirB. La kin, Instructor In Book-keeping. Captain Henry E. Sellers, Biiugur, Instructor in Military Tactics. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Samuel Wasson. Ellsworth, President. l>. H. Thing, Mt. Vernon, Vice President S. L. Uoodale, Saco, Secretary. M. C. Fernald, Orouo. S. P. Peck ham, Onno. Charles E. Hamleu, Watcrvllle. Members at Large. Cyrus F. Brackett, Brunswick. J George L. Guodale, Brunswick. J MEMBERS KBOM COCXTIKS. S»‘th Scannmn, f >r Cumberland County, Scarborough. Wildes P. Walker, Sagadahoc County, Topsham. William Swett, Oxford County, S>uth Paris. Levi L. Lucas, Somerset County, St. Albans. Ira Doe, Y ork County, Saco. Elijah B. Stack pole, Penobscot County. Kenduskeag. Samuel Wasson, Hancock County, Ellsworth. J. Varnum Putnam, Aroost-mk County, IlouUon. Jereuiiah K. Norton, Franklin County, Avon. Luther Chamberlain, Piacataquis County, Atkinson. Moses L. Wilder, Washington County, Pembroke. Isaac. 11 ibbfl, ixu i\ County, S -ut.i ll.seph F. Duuuing, Clerk of Superintendent, Portland. "t M T rKH ISl'KS. Androscoggin, C. H. tst-ison, Lewiston. Aroosix, 0 M. Hicks, IWkland. Lincoln, 1>. S (Bidden, Newcastle. Oxford, N T. True, Bethel. Penobse t, S. A. Plummer, Dexter. Piscataquis, W. S. Knowlton, Mor.ion Sagadahoc, D. F. Potter, Topahxm. Somerset, G W. H&theway, Skowhigan Waldo, N. A. Luce, Freed ru, Washington, W. J. Cortbell, Calais. York, M. K. Mabry. MAINE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. President, J II H inson, Wat«*rviUr. Vice-president, C. C. Hounds, Farmington. Secretary and Treasurer, C. B. Stetson, Lewiston. ixrcrrivs commutes. J. II Hanson, Chairman, Watcrville C. B Stetson, Lwislon. A. P. Stone, Portland. J. S Barrell, Lewiston. W. Johnson, Topsham. C. C. Rounds, Farmingtou. J. I*. Ur«»ss, Brunswick. G. T. Fletcher, Castine. J. B. Webb, Yarmouth. COMMITTEE ON STATE VALUATION. John P. Hubbard, IHtam. Seth Scam man, Scarboro*. Alvin Currier, Farmington. Nehemiah Smart, Searsmont. Abel Prescott, Canaan. Reuben S. Prescott, Bangor. Partman Houghton, Eaxtport. Lu-ch Knight, Portland, Clerk of Commissions STATE LIBRARY. Joseph T. Woodward. Librarian. Shooting Tackle. n. W. LONO, SUCCESSOR TO l. M. LEI AND, O-UN SMITH And Dealer In Shooting Tackle of Every Variety. KIFLK AND SHOT GUNS made to ORDER and WARRANTED. Particular attention paid ta Choking Shot Guns to make them shoot thick mud strong Also on hand, the best lot of Skates In the market, for sale cheap. Odd keys of every pattern Key tags and rings for Hotels Powder of the be*»t quality for Blasting or Sporting. Re pairing done neatly and promptly. All work warranted. ljau-ly Committees of the Legislature Joint Standing Committkks. On the Judiciary— Messrs. Lindsey oi' Somerset, Lane of Cumberland. ami Reed of Cumberland, of the Senate; Mes-ra. W hidden of Cnlaia, Barker of Stetson, smith of Saco, Bouncy of Portland, Blib* of Washington, Powers of lioulton, and Yose of Winterport, of the JIoihc 0 on Federal J:dation»— Meaere. Cleaves of Oxford, Lindsey of Somerset, and Reed of Cumberland, of the Senate; .Messrs. Barker of Stetson, Stone of Keiiuebunk. Met.ilvery of Searsnort, Whidden of Calais, Burgess of Portland. smith of Warren, and Jordan of Brunswick, of the House. On Military Affair*—Messrs. Dibba of Cumber land, Nealley of 1 ork, and Hanson of ork. of the Senate; Messrs. White of Bangor. Human of Kit ten, Spaulding of Richmond. Phillips of Weld. Sturgis of Maudish. Dennett of so. Berwick, and Alexander of Belmont, of the House. On (Joust and Frontier Iiefenres—Messrs. Morse of Sagadahoc. Cushing of Waldo, and Talbot of Washington, of the Semite; Messrs. Blake of Au burn Brawn oj Okltou n. M- niton el Porter. Ames of Jefferson, Mayo of Windham, Paige of Yinal haven, and Dates of Bobbin Mon. of the House. On Fail road*. Way* and Hritlfft*— Messrs. Cush ing of Waldo, Morse of Sagadahoc, and Holland of Androscoggin, of the Senate; Messrs. If ink- of Biv ksport Twitchcll of Portland. Foster ol Argyle, Farwell of Augusta. Lane of Hollis, Patten of Bath, and Dickey of Fort Kent.oi the House. On Mercantile AJJnir* anil Insurance—Mes-rs. Buck of Hancock. Carvill of Cumberland, and Metci.ll of Lincoln, of the Senate; Messrs Hol brook of Freeport, Chamberlain of Kll.-worth. lllake of Auburn, Warren of Vcazie, Dannett of Bath, Watts of Thomaston, and Harding of Dorham, of the House. On Leyal liefvrm—'Sle&*\*. Lane of Cumberland, Xealley of ik, Cleaves of Oxford, of the senate; Me-srs. Baker of Augusta, Humphrey of Bangor, Ifarriinau of Belfast. Home of Cherry field, Spauld ing of Richmond. Barton ol Bouton, and Mildram i of Wells, of the House. Or. Education—Messrs. Buffum of Penobscot, French of Franklin, and Minot of Kennebec, of the j senate, Messrs. Farwcll of Augusta. Humphrey of Bangor, Bonncy of Portland, Dott oi Leeds, Hathorn of Fitufleld. Smith of Litchfield, ami Daggett of Strong, of the House. I On Hanks and Banking—Messrs. Metcalf of Lin j coin, Reed of Cumberland, and Dray of Kennebec, of the Senate; Mtssi-. Dunning of Bangor, Reed of Wnldoboro*. Twitehell of Portland, Waterhouse of Portland, Bird of Rockland. Palmer of Gardiner, on Agriculture-—Messrs. Lang ol' Kennebec, Gar* celon of Waldo, and Bartlett of Hancock, of tl:e i Senate; Messrs. Greene of Wilton, Wasson 1 of Surry, Thurlough of Newburgh, Wentworth of North Berwick, Moulton of I'orter, Boothbav of Embden, and Darling of Lincoln, of the House. On Manufacture*— Messrs. Hanson of York, Gibbs of Cumberland, and Mayo ol Piscataquis, of the Senate; Messrs. Ham of Lewiston, Purrinton of Bowdoinhum. Cole of Cape Elizabeth. For-s of Ab bot. Lewis of Pittston, Burnham ol Bi ideford, and Cousins, of Kennebuukport. of the House. On Interior Water*—Messrs. Talbot ot Washing ton, Buffum of Penobscot, and Gibbs of Cumber land, of the bemde .Messrs. Hammond of We-t lo owk. Folsom of Skowhegan, McGilvery of Sears* 1 iu.it, Bearce of Lewistou, Co.\ ot Last Machias. i Hamilton of Orouo, and Skinner of St. Albans, ot the House. on. State Lunds and State Hoads—Messrs Lang ot Keunehec, King-bury ot i’enobscot, and Webb of Somerset of the Senate; Messrs, smith oU Hodgdon. Crockett of K irkland. Davi!* of Lubec, Irish of sherman, Martin of Ktimford, Chase of Wiun, and slierman of Camden, ol the House, j On tiiris. >n of Towns—Messrs. Webb of Soiuer set, Gray of Kennebec. and Bartlett of Hamoek, of .the Senate; Messrs. Wasson of Surry, Whit** of luingof, Weston of Poland, Kimball ol Bethel. Thompson of Hallowell. smith of Pui sonslield, ami j J’eavev of Whiting, ot the House. On fjicirtou of Counties— Messrs. Carvill of Cum I builand, Toney of Km»x, and Kingsbury of Penob I scot, of the Semite r Messrs. Tobey of Athens, Beiry of Buxton, Millikcn of Tremont. Mason of j Hirain. Wilder of Fort FairtleM. Douglass of Na* I pies, and Adams ot Mayfield, of tlie House. On Incorporation of Towns—Meson-. Holland tandbh, Burgess «»i Portland, Burbank of Acton, .Jones of Norway. Pierce of Maf Corinna. Lord of Iianoii. Lewi- of Libert\, Dearborn of Falmouth. MeKown of Boothbav, and >iiermaii "i iii ik.'i«>, made as thin a> a metallic Base; at the name time the plate is flexible, and less liable to break. This mode Insures likewise the certainty of a perfect tit. Having purchased the exclusive Hah* to use this mode in Keuiu ln*c county. 1 shall be nappy to show its peculiar ail vantages to any one who needs arti fleial teeth. 09 Winthrop Street. Augusta, Jan. Jcjth, lt>70. hfttyun-flvr&iwtt gUswUany. A VISIT TO TFANYSOX. I went to the door of l'aringford with a letter Ironi Hubert Browning, and wat re ceived with cordiality. After dinner he took me up to hie study, where he sat smoking and talking in tfis frankest man ner. Among other things, lie told me of the people who waylaid him, the incidents being sometimes very amusing. Two men for example, Inning got into his garden separately, one. climbed a tree at the hjs proacli of the other. The other, seeing him, called out, softly, “I twigl" and immediately climbed another tree. And yet he declared that no man was more accessible than he to any one who had any good reason for wishing to see him, or had any introduction to hint. So I, for one, certainly found it, the hospitalities of Faringlord having been offered to me be yond my willingness to accept them. It had been a stormy evening, and the night was of pitchy darkness when 1 started out, against kind invitations to remain, to go to the “Albion" inn near by. Tennyson insisted on showing me a nearer way, but amidst the darkness got oil Ids bearings. Bidding me walk close behind him, we went forward through the mud, when suddenly 1 found im self precipitated some oiglit or ten feet downw ard. Bitting in the mud, I called on the poet to pause; but it was too late he was speedily seated beside me. This was seeing the Laureate of England in a new light, or, rather, hearing him under a new darkness. Cov ered with mud, groping about in the dark ness, ne improved the odd occasion with such an incessant run of witticisms and anecdotes that I luid to conclude that we had readied a condition which had dis covered treasures of fun and humor in him before unsuspected. His deep bass voice came through the congenial darkness like a mirthful thunder, not without flashes of light; and the shades of all who ever stumbled in the night seemed around him. and to remind him of a whole literature of such emergencies. Vexation was at least not among tlie shadows that encompassed us. though for a time we were wandering in a muddy liehl, with no object, not even the sky visible. “That this should have happened alter dinner!’' lie exclaimed. “Do not nient on this to the temperance folk." Tennyson’s love of fun, his wealth of witty stories, were from the first a sur prise to me. llur, indeed, he is personally very difl'en i t in every way from the man I expected to see. Tall, of dark complex ion, with a di e]) and blunt voice and man ner, almost Quaker-like in its plainness, fired of the homeliest Saxon words, he seemed to he the last person one would June picked out as the delicate and super artistic idylist. in conversation he never rose into any thing like the heroic strain, except when speaking of England. His pride in his country amounts to a passion. He had also a keen interest in all scientific subjects, concerning which he had evi dently read a great deal. He spoke much of the philosophical questions of the day, also, his interest in which has led to the formation of the meetings for discussion between Huxley, Tyndall, l)r. Manning, James Martineau, himself, and others. Next morning it was found that Mrs. Ten nyson had directed the gardener to make some improvements at that point which had not been completed. A walk was in existence there, however, at the close of the next day, to which was given a name commemorative of the catastrophe, which was happily without any unpleasant results. The next morning was brilliant, and the poet took me on a walk around the manor of which he is lord, the advantages of the position bring that he can have his sheep graze on the common, which otherwise belongs as much to the public as to himself. The house is modest and cheerful, sur rounded by beautiful trees, with, on one side, a thicket of wild bushes and pines, very favorable to the pursuers already mentioned. The window of his study opens on a magnificent sea view. The quiet home where Tennyson dwells, sur roundi d by a eh inning household, is well portrayed in his invitation to the Kev. F. D. Maurice: Where, far from ^moke and noise of town, I w.tbh tin* twilight tailing brown All round a c-nclcss ordered garden, iu»r to the ridge of a noble down. “You’ll have no scandal while you dine, But hoot ft talk and wholesome wine, And only hear the magpie gossip Han uloinj under u roof of pine. “For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand; And further on the hoary ehunnel Tumbles a breaker on chalk aud sand.” The poet has sometimes received as well as sent out poetical invitations. Here is one from Walter Savage Lamior: “I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson, i ione and share my haunch of venison. 1 have, too, a bin of lurel, liood, but bt tier when you share it. Though ’tis only a Miiali bin, There' a ctoek’of it within, And. as Mire as I’m a rhymer, Haifa butt of Kucle.'heumi (’mne; among the sons of men ip one \Vel< oilier than Alfred Tennyson Wlion I have seen the Laureate in Lon don he has always seemed, in dress, man ner, and expression, to he cut of place, as a wild wood-bird might be alighting for a moment in llvde bark, but dreaming of tlie forest whose glooms its wing was meant to light up. lie is the natural com panion of the clouds, tile downs, and the breaking waves, with the far-off vistas from which they bear him w ell-umlerstood messages. Anil as I parted from him on the dill*, to wend my way to Loudon agaiu, 1 turned to look upon him as he was gazing out upon the sea, and the cliff seemed his appropriate p dc.-tal. lie stand- in my iin moi v as tlie l’rospero of an enchanted isle.—M. D. Conway in harper s Alay azine fvr March. Almanacs for 1870. JUST HKCKIVKO, -V L.YKOE LOT Of TI’E timin' fanner’s Almanacs, III- Ilaniel Itubai-on. fur 1STO. for .ale lew by gross (iusen, or .Ins'le at the sign i f tlie Big Ledger. 155 Water Street. UI AIT NORTH. 4SU AugUrta, Nov. IS, ISCSI.

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