Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
February 21, 1877

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__PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), BY SPRAGUE, OWEN A NASH. TERMS: SEVEN DOLLARS PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS. VOL. VIII AUGUSTA. MAINE. WEDNESDAY HORNING. FEBRUAR. 21. 1877. NO. 45. JUwubfc Jmirnal. Published at Augusta, Maine, Water Street, u>t oi Court by nckaguk. Owln A Nash. gaily gfunfbef journal, luaued every morning, except Sundays. It con* aius the latest aewa by telegraph and mail, gives reports ol the Markets, and hue curolully prepared political and local articles, and a generous amount oi farming, home aud miscellaneous reading with a lull compilation of btule news. Terms, f 1 per annum in advance, $8 if payment a not made w ithin the year. Single copies 5 cents, to be had at the bookstores and at this office. Advertisements inserted on reasonable terms. Kales may be had on application at this office. WrMy gfnnfbrr journal, Published every Wednesday morning, is the argest lolio paper in the State, containing news, political article*, agricultural aud scientific matter, a es, poetry, anecdotes, household mutter, mark et*. Ac., Ac. Terms, i per annum in advance. Transient Advertisement*,$2.uo per inen lor first week; adeem* per week i’or each subsefiuent in sertion. Special Notices, $2.50 per inch for first week; 50 vents per week for each subsequent week. Uusincsa Notices, in reading columns, 20 cents por line lor first insertion; lu cents per line lor each subsequent insertion. Advertising Agent. —ro» TH«— KENNEBEC JOURNAL, [Dully and Weekly.] The following Advertising Agents are author ised to receive subscriptions and advertisements lor the Kennebec Journal: B'lSTON it: t S. M. I’B'iTENuti.L A Co., 10 State Street. S. It. Niles, No. 0 Tremont Sheet. T. C. Evans, 252 Washington St. Horace Liodd Washington Street. XEW YliHK t Hawcht A (Jo., 191 Fulton St. •iio. 1'. Howell A Co. 40 Sjt'ark How. Oates A I.ocre, 34 Park Raw. W. W. SllARI'E A t o. S. M. Pettenoill A Co., 37 Park How. PHIIj V lELl’HIA Coe, Wetuebell A Co. N. W. AVER A Co., Chestnut St. S. M. Pettenqill A Co. 7ul Chestnut street. £T LOUIS, MO., Biwei.lA Chesman, cor. Third and Chestnut St s. icorm POST OFFICE. Office Hours. For delivery of letters, from 7.30 A. M. to 8.30 f. M. On Sundays, from 9.15 A. M. to 10.15 A. M. Arrival and Iiecarture or Mails. Mails Arrive. Boston, Portland, »,.d West, 3.30 A. M. 3.45 and 8.20 P. M. Bewistun and Auburn, 3.45, 6 and 8.20 P. M. Butb and Rockland, 3.45 and 8.20 I’. M. 4(ockland stage, via Washington, 0 P. M. Waldoboro stage, via Jefferson, ti P. M. Belgrade, West Waterville, N'omdgcwork i nd Madison, 1.30 P. M. Winthrop and Monmouth, 6 P. M. Farmington stage via Bvadtield, 1.30 P. M. Belfast, 11.35 A. M. and 10.58 P. M. Belfast stage. 11.35 A. M Skowliegnn, 11.35 A M. (Iruud Trunk H. It. and Canada, 3.45 at d 8.20 M. Soldiers’ Home 11.35 A. M. and 7.00 P. M. Mails Close. Portland, Boston and West, 5.40 ted 11.20 A. M. 10 P. M. Eewhton and Auburn, 5.40,8.30, 11220 A. M. Bath and Rockland, 5.40, and 11.20 A. M. Rackland stage, via Washington, 7.00 A. M. Waldoboro’ stage, via Jefferson, 7.00 A. M. Belgrade, West Waterville, Xorridgewock, and Mtdison, 1.30 P. M. Winthrop and Monmouth, 8.30 A. M. Farmington stage via Keadfield, 1.30 P. M. Belfast, 3.35 P. M. and 10.00 I’. M. Belfast stage, 32(5 P. M. Skowhegan, 3.85 P. M. (•rend Trunk K. K. and Canada, 5.40,11.20 A.M. Soldiers’ Home, 7 A. M. and 3.35 P. M. Domestic Postage. Drop Betters, per 1-2 oz. 1 cent. Mail Bette re per 1-2 oz. 3 centa. 1 Book transient newspapers, and other transient printed matter .(except unsealed circulars) in pack ages no: exceeding 4 lbs. in weight, per 2 ounces, 1 cent. Unsetled circulars, merchandise, and scruples, in packages not exceeding 4 lbs. in weight, per ounce 1 ceut. All matter not prepaid at letter rates must be so wrapped that it can he examined, and must con tain no writing whatever, except the address. Biquids, glass and explosive chemicals arc ex cluded from the mails. Monet Order Office. JEspcciil attention is called to the Money Oruer ayatciu as a sate and cheap method ef transmitting mall sums ol muuey through the mails. Orders arc issued for amounts not exceeding #50. Larger amounts can he sent to the same person at the same tim: by additional orders. Hates Orders not exceeding #15, 10 cents. over #15 and not exsoodiug #30, 15 #80 #40, 20 #40 #50, 25 Money orders are also drawn by this office on Canada, (treat Britain, Cermany, and Switzerland. Registered Letters. Letters, and other valuable packages, may be registered to any nost-office in tne United blares, on the payment ofletter postage and a fee of ten tents. Horace H. Ua.mlen, p. m. Oct. 9, 1876. ATTENTION Members of tbo Legislature, And Everybody Else. 1 will Mate for the Next 60 Days, 4 Car l Size FERROTYPES Tar 50 CCs. 13 #1.25. 1 5 b) i, for 50 Cls. —AT >1 Photograph l'iooms, Atd V Alt IET 1' Ntohe, No. 08 Water Street, Augusta. HENRY BAILEY. __anllHJm THERMOMETERS! Direct from the Manufacturers—One Profit. For sale cheap by the doz., or single by Is H. TITCOMH, West End Ken Bridge. Maryland Pop Corn ^^^^LL^MSOlMMiRK^tCoOL. II. A. II. ('IIANDLEIt, Dealer in Choice Groceries, -AMlJ’ FrOvl slons, Market Square, Augusta. iulyl-ttl J. U.PU11SSKLL, Carpenter and Builder, Sliop on STATE ST., I»e tween Court and tireun, Augusta, Me. _ o on. i‘KK>J Il’MK. New kubsciibers (applying early) for tlie year lfc77 may have, without charge, the numbers for the last quarter ol ]S76of such periodicals a* they may subscribe lor. Neither premiums to subscribers nor discount to clubs can be allowed unless the money is remitted direct to the publishers. No premium* given to clubs. Circulars w ith furihei particulars may be bad on application. THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO,. 41 BARt LAY ST., YEW YORK. r SLEIGHS! A LARGE LOT OF Sleighs and Harnesses To be Sold LOW FOB CASH, by A. F. GERALD CO., Ju*t Above the Kennebec lltidgc, Au gusta, Me. A Good Stock of the above articles made in the State J'rieon. A1 o a Good A*no.tuieut oi Blankets, Whips, Tranks, fc, ALWAYS ON HAND. All Goods Warranted as repre. ented, or money returned. decU-tU THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE. HOWE h' Arabian Tonic B’ocd Purifier. I! arts immediately upon tho Liver. K:doe\ and Blood. Sold by, L. IT. TITCOMB, Druggist, West End Ken. Bridge. “GOOD NEWS’’ Portable Ivan^o. Every Range warranted; the oven large, and thoroughly ventilated, portable hot closet, to be ap plied easily. Largest amount o| top tun laceot any range in the ni.ukct. Adapted lor cither coal or wood. The mod perfect Cooking Apparatus ever offered to the public* GOULD SEWALL* W'IIIIaiiih' Block, Water Ntreet, August**. ^Vt H educed Prices. Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, Ammunition,) —AND— Sporting) Goods!] Of all kinds and clustes.) Shot niulilPowder. The celebrated Ditmar white powder; t-upcnor to any other in line; does not smut. Blasting powder at retail and wholesale. All kinds of Gunsmith's work and repairing done to order. Call at the Cniumitli shop next door north ol Parrott A Chase’s, No. 101 Water St..Augusta, Me. aug:ll*;tf A W. Ki ll HALL S X E AV Photographic Establishment. Cor. IJridiTC Water Sts. After seven years of unremitting labor and study, I have at last realized my long cherished wish io build a Photographic Gallery for artistic Portrait ure upon a scale hitherto unapprouchcd jn the state. Kxpei icn e having taught me that most of the faPures in Photographic Ateliers are to be attrib uted to improperly arranged sky light*, work rooms and i id perfect lights, caused by the reflec tions from surrounding buildings. 1 determined to place my new sky light in a locality which would b s free from all objections,and 1 whs fortunate in be ing able to secure the upper story in Messrs. Nason A llamlen's Building, corner Bridge A Water Sts., where 1 have luruished the beautiful studio which i- now the admiration of artists and photographers. A more admirable situation for photographic and anUti'* purposes can nowhere beicund. On ir count ot ftic ample light now available, a j erfoct.lv clear day h no longer required to produce a good poitrail. Hoping that I may be honored by a visit irom all the Ladies and Uen'llcmtn oi the city loan e taldishment wiiich it has occn my aim and object to make worthy of the c.toilul e.tv to which I have the honor to 11.\ ;ie you. Clirisfiiias and Yew Years J Mi' Now is the time to have Good Pictures taken for Holiday Presents. Come and look at them. A cordial invitation is extended to all. A. XV. KIMBALL, Over llanilcii A l’hllbrookN, tor. ol Itrldge A Water S: roc's, Augusta. novi2-ft i Having added Plumbing to our business, w e arc now i t-ifix to luwnikiu the plumbing line. WILLIAMSON A GKLKNWfX 1) The Best Furnace In tin1 tlnrkd i« l lie PEERLESS FURNACE! More In use in diia city than any other make. Given the mo«t univt r-al Satisfaction. No liability «f gas esc ipiug; i-i.v adjusted ami simple in till its parts. Manufactured l>y the lliglil uul Furnace Company. The only agent lor this Furnace in this c.'.y GOULD SEW ALL. Allgnotu, Sept. 4.1870, PIANOS K and warranted. Velocnpt’ilp, Dexter, Fleetwood and Centennial Scroll Saw Machine*. F mey Woods, l)e*ign«, Suw llluuca, and All material required for umateur worker*. Samuel Thurston, 3 FREE STREET BLOCK, Portland^ j stop that coreii austrauanTough cube. The Kent known Tletnodv for all Throat anil Lung AiTrclion*. Sohl only liy I/. II. TJTCOMB, West End Ken. Bridge. Old Newspapers. Tt ST right for wrapper* clean and nice, for sale at the •TODUNA1. OFFICK Professional (Faros. W. SCOTT ilXLL, M. 1>. CIIAM. E. >OUTO>, M.l>. No. IVJ STATIC NTBEET, UK. HILL'S Office Hours, 7 to h a, m to :i and 7 too l'. Jl. Hit. NORTON'S B I" It A. '1., and 11.> 6 I'. M. OFFICE HOURS: Dr. Bell, Ten to Twelve A. M. Dr. Dillingham, 8 to 10 A- M. 1 to 2 P. M. Augusta, JVLo. jitlviV t&wtf J. O. WEBSTER, M. D. Office hours—Sto9; 1 to 3; and eto 7. Id n H t at o Street. (.South ol Episcopal Church,) inayHtAwtl w. ii. THOJaesiOJx, i>., Corner r-state and CJroen Mia. Office hoars from I to:iP M. mr34*ttw DAN’L C. ROBINSON Counsellor and Attorney at Law, AND Commissioner for New York. lGJi Water Ht., Augusta, IVfo novJMly* Drs. Brickett Bolan. Copartnormlilp. Office, Cushnoc House, State 8t. Dr. Briokett’a Office Hours iroin h to 12 A. M. Dr. Bolan’a 2 to ft P. M. Brickelt’a residence—Spring 8i. Bol&o’s resi* I dence—State 8t., opposite l>r. 11. If. Hill. Office open from A. M., to P. M. L. J. CROOKER, M. D., Residence and Office WlnthropStreet, one door east or liupllst Church, (the church with the town clock) In rear of Court House, Augusta, Maine. Otlice hours from A. M. to W M. Ium.'22-ttf E. W. WHITEHOUSE, Freemans Rank Uuildlng, Augusta, A'e., IJcnler In ItEAL ESI ALE. Houses and LamU to let or for sale. Several de sirable residences and laigeand eligible lot of land in Auguala and vicinity, t o Mile. *«‘Hiil- collect ed promptly and withoutlos*. Anpiy in pi idou o by fetter. tao4iil SB* II. WINN. M. D. Fliymlolan d? HurRoon* SOUTH CHINA, MAINE. [\t office formerly occupied by Dr. P. A. Crooker J "1 moat cordially recommend Dr. Winn to my frieiu autl former palroec. P. A. L’uo KKit, Pr.iggbt/’ AugUht:i, Maine. “1 hilly concur In the above recommendation.’’ febh Ilw&wim L J. ChookKK, M. D. HJusinwa CartJB. Wm. McDavid, Jr., SliitiEOA AM) 31 ECU AM CAL DENTIST. O/jice a! his house on Green .Sheet, A>it lb) >r 3Vr»t of l)r. Tlioinp«nn*M Augusta, Me. Having resumed practice lie wil mane the iiir-crtioii of Artificial Tecili i i Special Teeth tilled vuih iiold, btiperior Amalgam, etc. Tectn e\ traded without pain by the u^e of Nitrous Oxide, or Laughing has. hr. MePuvid, as the pupil auT5irH3'*r,X553r]p. (Successor to I)r. I. Snell.) OfTlcc first Door North F’est Office. Water Street. aijr.’tttf Al’UI STA, MIC. 1>K. I M. MOHfSE, (Foimerly of Boston) Surgeon Dentist, Corner Bridgo and Water Strode, AUGUSTA, 3VEE. OFFirE HOI KS—From to Di A. M., I to 5 I*. II. DU. MORsK. having had TWELVE EARS EX LERI KNi K. feels confident o» perf orming all Den tal Operations in a JSkilKul an«l Satisfactory Man ner, and hope* by faithful attendance t every ease eon u ted to his care to merit a share of public pat* muage. Sulisf.tclori Reference Ciivcn il Desired. dec22- feodAweow II- I*- WIlEEbEIt, t'lre Insurance Agent, ctiiwroKr, M AirJ .T3. Where Inenranre oau be olitMined on nil fii>t elar« bulbllnir., In obi and UulUblu 8m k Coin pnnii:«: al o In theSOMKHsET M. K. IN**!’ IIANt K CO., r'koHhegun. I.ightning a Specialty. ALSO lard A Job Printing of nil Kinds, Such a« Business and Calling Cards, Wedding and Engagement Cards, Envelopes, Receipt* Notes, Circulars, etc., etc. All orders by mail promptly attended to. M*" I*. O. Address Lock Box 7.'», Fair Held, Maine. oct4-tfttvly READER, Have you risen from your bed after a short sleep to ilml yourself nearly suffocate*! with latarilnl matter in your nose, head, and throat? Have you noticed what a depressing influence it exercises on the mind, blunting it** faculties, beside* enervating the body as well How difficult to rid the head of tins foul matter all can testify who are afflicted w nh Catarrh. How difficult to protect the system against its further orogress towards the lung- and bronchial tubes, all physicians can testify, it is a terrible disease, and cries out for relief. To t:e freed front the danger of suffocation while lying down; to breathe freely, sleep soundly and undis turbed; to know that no poisonous, putrid matter defiles the bieath and undermines the system; to know that the body does not, through its veins ami arteries, carry the pobon that is sure to de*-troy, Is indeed a blessing. To purchase immunity from ueh a late should he the object of all afflict* *1. Km those who have tried many remedies and phyt-i cians despair of their relief or euro. 'J hey become incredulous. With such the long array of testimo nials from our best citizens, physicians, and ding* gists in favor ol SANFORD’S RADICAL Cl RF Must convince them that It possesses great merit, w hile the new and original method of it- prepara tion when studi* d with the «ises-e, satisfies the mind of any reasonable person that its method of cure it the true one. SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE Instantly relieves And permanently cures every form of Catarrh, from a simple head cold to the ul cerative stage, together with all its sympathetic diseases. SANFORD’S RADICAL Cl RE Relieves in a short time the very worst forms of Nervous Headache. Ncuiulgia, Tightness across the Temples, Kinging Nob.es iu the Head, ami Wakefulness. SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE Cleanses the nasal passages in n single application w ith the admirable inhaier, w hich a* companies each package free of charge, and is more service able than any other form ol Inhaler. SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE Removes by a single application the hard, encrust ed matter from t he nose, opens up the nasal passag es allows the sufferer to breathe freelj sod enjoj for the first lime the pleasure of a lull bre&Lh. SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE Allays pain, inflammation, ami soreness of the mu cous meiuhrsuc ol the nasal pannages. It is the ino-t soothiug, healing, ami grutolul preparation ever applied to these inflamed surfaces. SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE Is also taken internally, where, by its action on the blood m eliminating from the syslt m the acid poison alwHV- present In Catarrh, it affects tue w hole ct nstitution. HANFORD’S RADICAL CURE Tim becomes a powerful purify ing agent in over coming the poisonous action ot me mum mailer that has, din ing-*le r. Sanford's Improve Inhaling Tube, and lull directions for use 'n all case*. Prim 1.00. I r sale by all wholesale and m t dl '.rugwi.-t* throughout Hie United J*Uttc*. W Kr Ks A P ITEK, U moral Agents, and Whole sale Drucg'stH, Boston. PH EVERYBODY _ CHEERFULLY RECOMMENDS COLLINS’ VOLTAIC PLASTERS. They contain the grand curative element, F.lcc tricity, combined with the finest compound of me dicinal gum* ever united together. It therefore &eetn« iinpo- ible for them to fail in affording prompt relief for all pain* and neb “THE BESTPLflSTER.’ Mta*r*. Week* A Potter, (ientlomen.—-Plea*e -end me six Collins' Voltaic Planter*. Send by re turn mail I think they are the best Blaster 1 ever used. Please find money inclosed. HASKFLI. LEWIS. Mil lord, Del., July II, 187fl. “AN EXCELLENT PLASTiR,” Messrs. Week* A Potter, flentlemcn,—Please send me another Collins’ Voltaic Plar e*. I llo'l them to he an excellent Planter—the best that I have ever u»e 1. I uni sony that the druggist* here do not keep them. F. M. SNIDKIi. Broadway, O., July, 187fi. SOLD BY ALL DUUUlUaTS. Pi ic l't cents. Sent hy mail, carefully wrapped, on receipt ot cent* for one. llor six, or $Z:zS for twelve, by WEEKS A I'UiTKU. Proprietors, Bo t ni, Matt. febl-2A v<. im Found at last. A perfectly harmless and suro HAIR Kf-bTOREK, without lead, Sul phur, or other poisonous sub stances. Such |is Dr. Costello’s Hair iReviver It not only restores the hair better than auy othcr preparation, but never laiU to cure all diseases of the eradicates all scurff and dandruff, stops Hu* hair from falling off, stops all burning and itch ing ot the head, amt restores the hair to its original color lor a certainly. Remember, this preparation is WARRANTED to do all that is claimed for it. It is a pure vegetable preparation.J Put lip by PROF. J. M. DANIELS, Lewiston, Me. Call on otir Agents and get a circular and see re commendation. Mold by Ifti'tiKgUts Generally. See advertisement in Weekly Journal. _Ivl tltavr llul -Land SIGN PAINTING. GRIIMNG and PAPER HANGING 11 AADALIa Is i reyared to do work as above in Hue style. Shop in Concert Hall, State St. 1 Janls-Jeodtf AVQDHTA. <£alcs and JShctcUc*. THE SHI DOW OF THE DOOB. [Continued from ye sterday.] The singular vigor of Hampton's mind and character now showed itself. What ever the likelihood beforehand of some such occurrence its gravity and the turn it took had to be melon the moment. He saw his advantage, and used it with de cision. but very calmly did not press over eagerly the {points in bis favor, and promptly forestalled future proceedings by proposing an immediate investigation, which, lie said, lie hud a right then and there to claim at their hands. Never did a man, starting under such disadvantages, go so far and so quickly to reinstate himself in public opinion. Not only that; he gaiued what ho never had before—some measure of personal re gard—be seemed so manful, bore himself so well under a trial so suddeu and so se vero. There was not a sign of begging Oft' or of evading any point of the inquiry! He seemed not to notice the favorable dis position which began to show itself, and which might have been readily applied to ease oft' the pressure. His explanations, which we need not closely follow, were minute and full. The letter, which lie put into Atkins’ hands, was wiiat lie had said. A grim smile passed over his face as he acknowledged that there was some cause for Nep’s dis turbance, though it was only a dead dog that lie himself had been compelled to dispose of the next day by the simple process of throwing it into the stream. They all knew how a negro's imagination would magnify such a circumstance. Tender, Joo, was right, lie had been de stroying some old clothes of his own that were made utterly worthless by Lhe work he had lately been engaged in and there was an old moth-eaten hair trunk that had belonged to his wife which he burned at the same time. He touched skillfully the prejudice against him on account of his manners. There might he causes uncon nected with evil, yet implying much sor row and trouble, to render him silent and reserved, not to speak of natural disposi tion. Must a man publish all this on eom iug to a strange place, or be suspected P The master-move oil Denipton's part then followed. “Gentlemen, he said—and the plainer the white people of I hat region, the more punctilious are they on formal occasions as to that title—"had you been invited to meet me iiere for this purpose ’—the shrewd man suspected they had come by quasi agreement—"there could hardly be a better representation of the neighbor hood. I am willing to trust myself to your judgment. Your verdict, as l may call it, w ill be accepted by the whole com munity. I propose then, gentlemen, that we proceed at once and together to my house, and that a lull and thorough search be made of the premises. am ready to abide by the result. If there were any thing ul.se that i could do to hack up the assertions that I have made, i would do it. Hut this is the utmost in my power. I think the law itself would not require more." Dempton had taken them entirely bv surprise when he offered to begin bis ex planation. llis present proposal redoubled the sensation. A battery suddenly cap tured and turned upon its defenders could not have done more execution. He was master of the situation. There was nothing demonstrative, how ever, in his manner or theirs. His sug gestion was instantly and quietly acted on. It was obviously the only test of his ex planation that was within reach; but by bringing it forward himself he had great ly added to his credit. He went out at the head of the little procession that fol lowed him as an escort rather than a guard. There would have been a promiscuous ac companiment of boys and uegroes, and Dempton's cheek flushed as he observed it, but lie said nothing. Some remarks passed in an undertone among the others, and one of them said aloud, •‘Gentlemen, wo are going to visit Mr. Dempton's nremises at Ids invitation, and I’m of opinion that it will be proper for the children and niggers to stay behind.” One or two others besides youngsters and “boys" took the hint, so that the party, as finally composed, was fairly respectable and representative. Dempton’s manner rose almost to dignity as he said: "Gen tlemen, are you ready?” and raised his hat; the response to which, though very unconventional, showed how the innate sense ol propriety is brought out by a se rious purpose or any high-wrought teel ing. The half-hour's drive was made for the most part in silence, and they were soon gathered in one group before the door, Dempton then spoke. "1 ask it both as a favor and a right, gentlemen, that you will conduct this search thoroughly in your own way, so as perfectly to satisfy yourselves. 1 am ready to answer any questions, and to comply with any request you may think proper. Will you go through the house first “Seeing we are at the door, Squire, perhaps we may as well do that lirst,"— whereupon Demptou threw the door open and the whole party entered. It is unnecessary to accompany them in every step of what proved to be a long, and so far as any discovery was concerned a fruitless search. The house and every thing in it were closely scrutinized. There were a bundle of papers and some letters, and a pocket-book with a few banknotes in it, which Dempton offered to put into the hands of one ot their number for closer inspection, if they desired it. With like carefulness the outhouses and all tho surroundings were examined; every part of tho farm was visited any sugges. lion Unit was made by any one of their number, however- improbable, was tol lowed up. And any one ol them might as Well have submilled his own premises to in spection, so far as producing auy evidence against Dempton. Throughout the whole proceeding nothing could be more frank than all his actions, though his words were very few, and the expression of his face i COXTINCKD ON t'OCBTU rZ0« j

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Bailij jMunfbff f rontal I ADUU8TA, Wednesday Morning, February 21, 18TT. The house democrats take the dose very reluctantly. It ought not to be so un pleasant to take their own nostrum*. It is not worth while to take stock in the Cabinets being constructed for Gov. Hayes by officious newspaper correspond ents and gossips. The story will be told soon after the 4th of March. In the democratic dictionary “rising above party" means to vote lor Tilden. That’s why Clifford unJ Field are eulo gized bv the democrats lor their unparli zan votes. It is surprising what unanim ity there is among democrats on this point. The St. Louis Republican counsels its democratic friends to stick to their agree ment to abide by the decision, and for consolation teils them that "there will be no more compromises on political ques tions in this country. A presidential dis pute will never again be submitted to ar bitration.” Is this consolation or sar casm? The Portland Argus is among the mourners. The bright hopes wi'h which it hailed the passage ol the bill establish ing Ihe electoral commission have utterly faded out. it's all on account ol the ob stinate republicans who wouldn't rise above parly! Pity they couldn't have risen above party like the seven democrats who voted straight for T lden every tir.e! The New York Herald advises the dem ocrats that they are beaten and that the result must be accepted by them in good faith. It says: “The South sets its face against filibustering or factious opposition and counsels its democratic brethren to give Hayes a fair trial. That he will be pretty generally accepted in the North is evident from the fact that of the 2111 elec toral votes of all the Northern States Mr. Hayes receives 1GG and Mr. Tilden only 65. Mr. Hayes is the choice of eighteen Northern States aud Mr. Tilden of only four. If the democrats will rise above the heated political atmosphere of Wash ton and cast their eyes abroad over the whole country they will look in vain for any section of our great country that will refuse to recognize Mr. Ilayes as the lawlul President of the United States." In regard to the decisions by the elec toral tribunal the Tribune says: “The le gal cluims set up by the democrats in this contest have been at every point and in every particular disowned and denied by democrats hitherto, aud rejected as a basis of action, ft is nothing more than the naked truth to say that four months ago the entire democratic party would hare accepted as indisputable the identi cal positions which the Commission lias now taken. In view of these facts, it is not a decent thing for democrats to de nounce the Tribunal for its course. Neither is it creditable to the democratic mem bers of the Commission that no one of them was found independent enough to vote for the very same legal principles which four months ago he would have ac cepted without hesitation.11 FOLIUVAL. Tbe seven democrats on the tribunal voted for Tilden, but they were not partisans.—Stic J'orlc Herald, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the lamented Presi dent, has been appointed railroad commissioner by the Governor of Illinois. It Is staled by excellent democratic authority that a messenger is dispatched every night to New York to convey to Gov. Tilden the confidential communications of Mr. Ilewitt, Col. Pelton, and other leading democrats on the progress of the case before tbe Commission and the general situs, tion, and to bring back bis suggestions. The Waiting Candidate, it is said, distrusts the mails and has lost all confidence in cipher dispatches. Tbe confession of F.ph Holland relative to the democratic frauds in Cincinnati accounts directly fur over 500 fraudulent votes, enough to oust Han ning and nearly every democrat in office in the county. He testifies that he was engaged as a matter of business by Banning, Wallace, and other democratic leaders to get votes by whatever means were necessary, and he got them. Thousands of dollars were furnished him, and be disbursed the money among repeaters from New York, Chicago and Pittsburg. OERERAL REWR. If any one asks these days, to borrow your news paper, tell them it's lent. Sir Walter Scott's house in Edinburgh has just been sold for less than $15,000. So much for the power of associations in these prosaic days. Among tbe correspondents of the Peabody Ac ademy of Science, Salem, is a gentleman named Christ, and it is a curious coincidence that be lives in Nazareth, Peon. Tbe Vaket, the official journal of Constantino ple, says Turkey has 500,000 regulars under arms and will soon have 380,000 more, exclusive of volunteers; also 500,000 needle guns aud 300,000 others of recent invention. Martin, the famous French liou tamer, once took a young aitist into the cage of a particularly fierce lion, and tbe two men calmly sat duwn while the painter cut his pencil aud sketched the huge and restless animal. Tbe artist, afterward distinguished as the Belgian animal printer Ver boeckhoven, never would sell that sketch. A Washington correspondent alluding to the late Admiral Alden, says: "He was a young look ing man of Lis age—08 years I am told. For many ycara he labored under a heavy sorrow. His wife was an inmate of an insane asylum, She died a week before her husband, and manr sup pose that the news of her death, wi b all the aad recollections of the past, brought ob the attack from which he died." Gilbert Stuart, the painter, was one of the most absent-minded of meu. lie once psinled a picture for Mr. llarc of Philadelphia. This geullcmaD, on its completion, made the requisite payment to htnart, who at once said "Excuse me, this pict ure has been paid for.” Mr. llare of course per sisted in paving the amount due, the painter all the while pr otesting. He inherited this peculiari ty. Once upon a time bis father, jogging along tx cbuich with h:s wife on a pillion behind him, 1 >st in a revery, dropped her on the road. He a -ob became awtre of her absence, however, and turning suddenly rode back, exclaiming, “God't ■y-life, are you hurt i There the eat, enjoying ber anticipation of hit surprise when be should dia ■over her plight. Mr. Blaine’s Remarks on the Fund ing Bill lor the Pacific Railroad. Mr. President, I have not enjoyed the pleasure or the profit of heating any considerable part of the able discussion that haa been had on this bill. It is quite possible that 1 may not fully understand all its provisions, and 1 use therefore rather in a mood to ask questions than to answer them, to seek information rather than to give it. 1 have tried, however, to carefully study the bill which is reported from the Railroad Committee, and my conclusion haa been that 1 could not see my way clear to give it my support, and for two or three reasons which 1 will briefly recapitulate. First, I think the period assigned for the final payment and liquidation of the debt due to the government is loo remote. 1 do not concur iu the entire line of argument presented by the Senator from ali* i fornia [Mr. Booth] a day or two since. But there was one point of great importance which the Sen- j ator presented with force and aptness, showing that as yoa remove the date of tiual liquidation vou may decrease the annual installment of the sinking fund, and that if iustead of 1912 the date assigned by the pending hill, you iu-ert 1939, or 1940, or 19d0, you diminish in a very rapid ratio the sum to be paid each year, scaling indeed the i tbiee-quaiters of a million now proposed down to a mere nominal sum. Second. 1 am still further opposed to the fifth section of the bill. Taking what the amount re* quired for ultimate liquidation would he and connting backward for an existing present value, you do not exactly realize the rsductio ad absurdum, 1 yet you do reach such a minimum point as shows that it amounts to no adequate payment at all. It is like looking at a man through one end of a telescope which draws him near to you, but forthwith you change it and look at him through the small end, he becomes amazingly re- mote. 1 think that section has the power of inti- nite mischief in it, of disappointment to tbe people and serious disadvantage if not disaster to the whole funding scheme. Third. 1 aui opposed also to the proviso in the third section. 1 am opposed to making any con dition that the Government shall or shall not pat- 1 ronize this road. 1 would leave that with tbe Gov- eminent officials. I would leave it, as (he phrase of the day goes, to "the laws of trade." I think j the departments of tbe government that have hail charge of the transportation are generally conscien tious and upright. 1 think especially so in the (Quartermaster's department, which would have most to do on behalf of the government with these companies in this respect, and that they may be left to select the most advantageous and the cheap est modes of tiansportation without the law bind I ing them to use the Facitic Railroad. ror these reasons ana others that I might name I shall be constrained to vo'c agaiust the billorigi- □ally introduced by the Senator fiora Georgia, i f Mr. Gordon,] and substantially adopted bv the Railroad Committee, whose chairman (Mr. West] has so ably presented it to the Senate. On the other hand, 1 am very sure that I can- not vote for the bill reported from the Judiciary I ■Committee. The judiciary bill limply means a lawsuit. That is all there is of it. 1 do not mean that the honorable and able committee which re ports it means a lawsuit; but in effect it throws this whole case into litigation, where it has been now for vears past, and where legislation of that kind will keep it for years to come. I do not be lieve we can do any greater disservice to the Uni ted States Treasury, whatever its effect might he on the railroad, which we arc not here specially bound to consider, than to pass a bill of that char acter. It would be litigation, the law’s delay, the law’s uncertainty; and the law’s uncertainty thus far'has been a pietty absolute ceitainty against the government in all the controversies and conflicts which we have had with these Pacific Railroad Companies. I want to keep out of the courts. “The burnt child dreads the fire.” We certainly, j to use a common phrase, have not hud luck in the courts in our controversies with these two railroad companies. I do not say that they have not had right on their side; 1 am hound to presume they have had. They have had most important de cisions in their favor fiom the very highest judi cial tribunal known to our laws, and thus far I believe have come off victorious in every contest with the Government. In its great economic and financial feature this ques tion presents itself just about thus Under the decis ion of the Supreme Court of the l ’oitedStates they have the indulgence on their side of such a long postponement of the annual interest aswa ts ustil the matutity of the bonds. That i9 the law. We are bound to respect it. The gro*s sura owed to the government by these two railroad companies when the bonds mature will he somewhere in the uejghboihood of #140.000,000 or #150,000 000, and above that there lies a mortgage of about #.54,000,000, making an aggregate, if nothing is done and nothing is settled when that point is reached at the end of the present century, of something over #“200,000.000 which the govern ment would have invented. If it chose on its own account to raise the first mortgage and become the owner of the road the government would have on its hands some eighteen or nineteen hun dred miles of railway in which it had invested at the rate of #110,000 a mile. I do not think that would he a profitable Investment. I do not think we ought to enact any legislation that would ren der that step possible. Nay, I do not think we ought to take any risks on the subject. There fore I should be in favor of doing something. These railroad companies act in their own inter est, and they will do that of course. There is a great deal said, and has been for a great many years, about the men who control these roads be ing grasping and avaricious, aiming at monopoly. Well, Mr. President, they are men; that is ail. They have got hold of a great property and they maintain their lights and hold on to it, and they intend to keep all the law will give them. Every body else would do the same thing in their place. They are men, I repeat, and that is all there is of it. They have got a property and they propose to protect it, and to appeal to the law, and I suppose to fight it to the bitter end in defense of what they consider their legal rights. They would be more or less than men if they did differently. Now, instead of making a bitter controversy, possibly extending on until the condition of things to which I have spoken comes to pass, when the government confronts itself as the owner of this railroad at the enormous piice of #110,000 per mile invested in it, is it not bettor if we can have some sort of adjustment that will he fair to the government ami fair to the railroads I was very much struck, I confess, in reading over the bill proposed possibly to be submitted as an amendment by the Senator from Iowa, (Mr. Allison.) It does not propose a specific sum an nually.* I am a little suspicious of specific sums. Compound interest and Babbager calculators arc very deceptive, and there are no tabular state ments brought into legislative hall* that are not a little tinctured with interest on the one side or the other. They are made oat against the railroad or they are made out for the railroads, and I distrust both. The Senator from Iowa (Mr. Allison) pro poses, as I read it, to leave it to the Treasury De partment to say just what sum shall he paid by those companies that shall entirely liquidate and discharge their obligation to the government by the year 1905. 1 understood the Senator fiom California to indicate that he would go for a siuk iug fund which would discharge it in 1900. There is only a margin ot five year* difference between the Senator from California and the Senator from Iowa. That is not a very great period in the life of a nation. It would hardly be wise to put this whole queNtion at risk on a wrangle or difference between 1900 and 1905. I do not think the public judgment of theAmeiican people would justify the Senate of the U nited States in coming to a sharp issue with the railroad companies aud throw ing the whole thing to the doubtful hazards and chances of a suit at law. with its prolongations and its doubts and uncertainties, merely on the point of the ultimate liquidation being iu 1900 in stead of 1905. 1 therefore have hoped in reading over the amend ment suggested by the Senator from Iowa tbas his proposition might be brought before the Senate for a square vote. I could not support the one which the honorable Senator from Louisiana (Mr. West) has presented from the railroad committee, and I couht not vote for that of Judiciary committee committee, which, in my judgment, means litiga tion and controversy. But I would like to vote for some middle proposition that would be fair and just to all paities. While I have not exam ined the details with care and do not know but that there may be some to which I would not wholly assent, yt t the general scope and purport of the amendment suggested by the Senator from Iowa is one that commands my approval. There is another consideiaiion, Mr. President, which weighs heavily with me. I want to see an end of Pacific railroad legislation in Congress. I hope to remain in Congress long enough to see a session go by without a Pacific railroad bill com ing before us. That is au ambition which I cher ish aud yet which in fourteen years I have never had gratified, and I shall never hive it realised unless the length of my service should go beyond that of the honorable occupant of the chair (Mr. Anthony) if we go in j such hills as the Judiciary Committee reported here. The amendment of the honorable Senator from Iowa pioposcs to leave this matter to the acceptance of the railroad companies to make a contract. Any hill which will go through here and adjust aud end in any mauney satisfactorily to the people must he in the nature of a contract; for, shielded a9 the railroad companies are ftom the obligation of paying the annual interest, they are in a position more advan tageous than the government itself, and they can continue this controversy and will continue it in definitely at the government's expense. Cuts, bruises and hums, are cleansed aud healed by the “Forest Tar Balve”—sure. ftb2l—‘t&wlvr. For the Journal Gov* Packard and Democratic Threats. Does the Boston Post desire to be understood as endorsing assassination What other conclu sion can be drawn from the item it contained Sat urday morning, Feb. 17th? The leading demo cratic organ of New Log land taking such ground what would you evpect of the people it leads We knew Governor Packard when a gallant ofti cer in a Maine regiment. We hava met him in New Orleans since the war, and have no hesita tion in saying, that he po-sesses more patriotism, more of real merit in everything going to make up good society and good government, in his little ringer, than can he found in all the people con nected in any shape or form with the Post. This paper and many others, will never live long euough to outgrow the venom engendered by the overthrow of their associates and sympath eers in treason. Sixteen years ago, a legally elected President, was obliged to go to Washington in disguise, on account of the democratic plot to kill him. They brought on civil war in the interest of trai tois, slew half a million of people, and then killed Mr. Lincoln; and now after all this, after sixteen years, we are agaiu put to the humiliation of be ing obliged to guard the President elect on his way to the capital, from threatened assassination by a democratic conspiracy! There is not the j slightest question to-day, but that the attack upon Gov. Par kard, which the Post sanctions, was bu|rj a part of a plan whereby Governor Haves was also to be killed. Shame, shame, that any paper, or auy party, or any people can be found mean enough (or such infamy. Gjv. Parkaid, as wc have saiJ, was a brave solJicr of Maine during the war, is a gentleman in every particular, and wc, having also been a sol dier of Maine, call upon every man who was in the army from this State, as well as the numerous friends and relatives of Packard, njw living in Maine, where he was horn and rued, to resent tlM* cowardly, infamous attack. There may be sped mens of humanity, whom it would be a waste of powder to kill, hut they are not of the Packard stamp, but rather his traduceis. a more appropri ated mode of destroy ing whom would be at the cud of a rope. We have had about enough of these democratic threats, and if the legal authority can’t stop them, then the great American light of self protection is left for use. J. A. II. lto» oil Produce Market. Saturday. Feb. 17. FLOUR—The market in dull, and the sale* conllued t« small lot* for immediate use. We quote stipeis at 25&5 75 common extras at#, (mi a6A0; Wisconsin and Minnesota bakers’ brands $675*7 50; Ohio and Indiana $70(>i7 5O; Mich igan at 00*7 75; St. Louis and Illinois at $8 OJa 0); fancy MinnesoUs at #4 75ul0 50; Southern Hour at #5 7AaS» 2* per bid. CORN—The market i* llrmer. and we note sales ot No. 2 mixed in elovat r at W. and high mixed at 02c per bush. r2O 50; mess at #17*17 50, and piime at #125tul4(n |»er bbl. Cant i* dull and easier, with Hales at 11't a 12c for City and wes tern. The demand lor Smoked llama in light, with sales at lltfalic. The demand for Reef is conllued to small lots, and prices remain una tered. We quote clear Pork and backs at #IUa20 .V); me»s at #17 Oba 17 Ah, and xtra prime at #11 ooal I 5o pt r bbl. Lard at H'4al2c per lb. for dlv and w-st ern. Naphev’spail Lard at I3\c lor 3 lb*,13'tc for nibs,and l.P4c lor lOibs. Smoked Hams at 11 Sa lie per lb. lorchy and western. Heel at #1150 a 12 50 lor mess and extra mess, and #1150*1500 per bbl for family plate. RUTTER—The market remain* dull, and quota tions are more or less nominal and a good deal ir regular. Choice New York an Vermont butter Is »e Hug at 26a28c. but there is very little of this de fcrlpllon in the market, and go d lots sell at 22a25c, and fair lots at 20i22c per lb. There is no Western butter here, except now and then a factory or creamery, that will stll above 23c, and mill ami store packed butter sells at 1 la 16. for common and 10*18c for lair to good. Western roll* sell at 15a Idc but at the-e prices there is not much inquiry. Slocks in grocers'hand are light, and it would se» m that wh n pi lues are sett'e I i n a low basis that trade would improv CllFKSE—'The market ia firm, and there is a steady demand lor small lota at prices within the range. We quote at ll'^aiA1, f»r line factory; 11 'a 114c for choice, and 12‘a*i3c per lb for lair cheese. EGGS-The market i* a lit le irregular to-dnv, and sales of Eastern have bejn mu le at 2 Ja25c, arid Souther u at 22c per doz. BEANS—There is no change to note in prices, and the market is steady at #2 I2'at2 25 for good lots of mediums, with considerable quantities oi choice York State mediums held at #2 30a2 35 per bush. Pea beans are in fair request at #2 75a3 00; yellow eyes are plenty and dull at $2 20a2 25 per bush. POULTRY—The market ia quiet, as usual on Sa urday, and prices are without change. The best lot* of Western sell at Halle, and the best chickens at llsli'gc: common lots of chickens or turkeys sell at H alle, and some poor stufl at lower- figure-. VEGETABLES—There is h little better feeling in the market lor point tea, and the sales to d ry comprise Pavi* Seedlings at 80*H5c; Garnets 85a l*>c Prolill *s at 1*5 i#l nj, nnd -Fa -ksons at 05a# l 00; Robb are selling at #1 05*1 15 per bush. APPLES AND Glt.VNBERRIES—The* e D a moderate demand, and prices are without any snecial change. New England apples are sel ing hi #1 75.2 25 per bbl. and we-tern fruit at #1 75a2 5ti I «‘i bbl. Cranberries are dull at #«JOGat»00 per bid for c .untry and Cape. HAY AND STRAW—The maikat is du 1 an 1 there is a good supply of all grades. We quote at .’0 00*21 O0 per ton lor pri me lot* of coarse hay #!7 00*lw oo lor medium #l00»al7 0) per tou tor line. Straw range* from #20 OOail 00 per ton. Sl'G v R —Raw is in lair inquiry, and we note sales ol 150 Idols Porto Rico, to come from New bury port, nt 0'*0 per lb. R dined continues steady and in lair demand. We quote powdered at 12*,c granulated at ir4all7,c and standard A at ll J,c pe In, w bolesale grocers asking ttdvauce on these prices. COTTON—The market is quiet and inactive at a decline. We quote New Orleans, Texas, Ac Middling, 13c;’ow middling, 12',c; good ordinary, I**; ordinary, 11»*c. Upland Middling, 12%c low middling. 12.V; good ordinary, ll7,c, and ordi nary, ll \c per lb. PUMPS! Cucumber Wood. Metal Lined, wild Iron Cistern Pumps. ALSO MUD PIPE PPM PS REPAIRED I—BY GOULD SEWALI. Messrs. Longfellow Ward Would respectfully aunounce to their lrlendn and the public that they have Utted up the DINING AND LODGING UOIISE, In Wuior Sii ei l. nearly opposite VILLI AMSON A GRKKNWOOIfS IIAliDWAKK STOKE, sbU In tend to make It a llrst-clase place. Prosh Oysters Constantly Kept on Hand. K. B. J.ONUFF.LI.OW, J. WARD. Attaints, August M, 18T8. tlf Notice of Assignment. Y')T1(:E i* hereby given that Lena C.Cochrane u, A'lgnau, in llio County of Kennebec, and state ol Ma nc, has ihis day assigned to me all her property except such as u by law exempt from at tachment. lor the ben. lit of her creditors: amt that tire,, months from the execution ol said as igiimenl are allowed turaatd eredito a to become p:ir.iea i t:i i t lo. ei a, v: STAPLES. Augusta, Dec. it, ln7d. dee.5 m WANTED I Every Family to Know How to Hake their own Flavoring Extraota. The only wav lo have them Pure, and at one ball the price paid at stores, llrrrlpta f r Making Kitrart lenna, Vantllj Kssenrr Ptpprrmlai, anS I hrrkrrbrrrj, All sent on Receipt of ‘gs eta. Address, FRANK FLETCHER, Ayer, Mass. bin 4 1 n 'lay at hume. Agents wanted. Outfit dan Frau free. Tltl.'E A CO„ Augusta, Maine marA-tAwly FLOWERS! For the House, For a Party, For a Wedding, For any Occasion. We have made arrangements with Mu. T. House III E. KowueV lew. try stoic. who will take order*, and make pi ires, the tame aa ourselves. I'tXBIIAL FLOWKKM A SPMiALTl. M. E. Hutchinson Co., FXiOZAISTB. Portsmouth, X. H. ___oct28«tlv FURNITURE 40 Mattresses, 2.5 Spring lieds, 1.5 Lounges, .50 Mirrors, 20 Marble Top Tables, 1.5 Wood Top Tables, Camp hairs. 20 Wakefield Rattan Chairs, 1000 feet Walnut Moulding, .500 feet (Jilt Moulding, intension Tables, Children's Chairs, Dining Chairs, Are., Are Al.l. TO HE MOM» WIT HIT TIIK MI'AT TIIIIITV DAYS Ilogardloss of Cost. J. H. DOlLIVER, 111 Hjlcr xi., lueuxta. Oppoxttr P»xt o/llfr jsn.Wflml# PROVISION DEALER. fanned Goods of all Mods. Will Sell CHEAP for CASH. SbTCALL AND IMjlIKK TIIK 1'ltl JES. Prices to Suit the Timer. Wo. 1 MAUKKT egi'AItK. Near Water Street, Augusta, Me, leblO-ttf Niu;. KENNEBEC *9.—Taken on execution, and will be sold by public auction, on Saturday, the 1’enth (loth) day of March, A. I>. 1877. at ten o'clock in the loieuoon, ut ihdoilice of Baker »t Baker in Angus ta, in raid county, all the right in equity which George A. Snow ot Newark, in the State of New Jersey, hin, or had on the seventh day of Febru ary, I>. 1876, at lour o’clock to the afternoon, be ing the time the same was attached on the original writ, to redeem the loll >wing described real e.-t.ite, situated m vasi-a'boro’, in said county, to wit: A certain tract or piece of land situated in V assal boro’ alore-mi being oart ol lot No. 8, in the fourth range of lots in said Vassalboro’, bounded as fol lowsbeginning at the south side of the road le cd mg from the twelve mile pond to the K» nnebec riv er in Yussalboro’, and ai the northwest corner ot laud formerly occupied by widow Mary; thence southerly seven roils and about thirteen leet; thence westerly parallel with the road live and one half rods; thence northerly seven rods and about thirteen feet to the south side of the road; thence easterly live ami one half tods to the fir^ mention ed bo.ind*, containing forty three Mjuare rods, more or Uss, together mi.h tiie building* thereon standing. The al> >ve premises being subject to a rnoi tsrage recorded in lie Kennebec Uegistry of lie da, B >ok 241, page 250, given by alvin B, Snow to Meliita ble G. Bi-hop of Vassalboro*, to secure the pay ment ot three hundred and fifty dollars, payable in the manner following in titty or one hundred pay ments, on or before the 1Mb day of.Sej tember, 1873, being ten years Irom the date ot said mortgage, with interest annually. 'I he amount now due cm said mortgage will be made known at the time and place of said sale. \VM. II. LIBBY, Sheriff. rebruury 5, 1877. TOWN REPORTS Neatly and Cheaply Printed at Short Notice, -VT THE Kennebec Journal Office, -r,Y SPRAGUE, GWEN&NA'H. tcbHMtillmurlA ANNEAL STATEMENT. Railway Passencers Assurance Co., OK HARTFORD, CON?, CAPITAL* $3DOOOC-OJ. .€S3i£T8, Derruibcr 31, 1870. ra~h on hand and in Bank ;3 372 79 Cash m hands of Agents 5,000 00 Loans on Bond and Mortgage 88,000 00 Market J alue. United States Bonds f‘3,883 12 Connecticut State B nds 58,750 00 Municipal Bon Is 20 000 00 Railroad Bonds 41,130 03 Bank and Trust Company Stocks 77,573 00 Railroad Stocks 82,047 50 358,183 62 tiros* Asset*, (480,536 41 Li.iUtLiTaKS. Losses unadjusted $20,000 00 Re insurance reserve 15.0 >0 0 Total Liabilities 35.000 00 Surplus to Polk) Holders $445,536 41 .1. liATTERSON, President. CHARLES E. WILLARD. StrrrLrj. GEO. E. MAOOMBER, Agent, lugusta. Me. febl4*flaw3w Notice of Foreclosure. 117II EKE AS, Harriet Wentworth, by her mort yy ga*e deed, dated April twenty-tliih, eighteen hundred and sixty four and recorded in the Regis try ol Deeds lor Kennebec County, Book 240. Page 450. conveyed t«» Kbeneztr Bran, the farm situate in Vienna, in said county, upon which -aid Kben e zer Bean r ow re ides, and also a wood lot situate in ML. Yeruon, in said county, bounded on the north by land of dames F. Blunt, south by land for merly owned bjr Nathaniel Chapiuun, west by P*r koi’rt Pond, hi d cast by laud formerly owned by Mom‘8 T. Bean. This is to #ive notice that the condition of said imrfgagelms bet n broken, by reason wnereof, I, George L'. »;onkins, the duly ap pointed vuardiau of raid Kbeneztr U»nn,on ac count of his nnsoiindnesR of mind, do, in my ca pacity as guardHn, for and in behalf of said khent zer Bean, claim a fort closure of the same. GEO. C. HOPKINS, Sv9 Guardian for Kben. Bean. HIHH 10. 1*. KOLLINfii, MANTEAU- MAKER, Having taken rooms at the Hartford House invites a lair sliure of the patronage of the Ladies of Au gusta. who, from her pant experience in Botton, will guurautee perfect sut.sluctlon to all her pat rons. Pec. 7, *76. dec8 |*3m Closing Out Sale or DRY GOODS AND CARPETINGS —AT— Less Than W holesale Prices -AT SMITH A I) \V A li I> H O 9 S. We intend to close out our entire stock within the next sixty days and will sell our goods at extremely low prices. Our stock ol Dress Goods we offer for less than cost. We have a line of Lyon’s Poplins and Summer silks which will be sold at a great sacrifice. Our stock of Carpetings we have marked down 10 per cent, less than cost. Give us a call. j»ult£w2n» OEXTS’ UOLV CHAINS, LOCKETS, U BOSSES, ClI VliU.S, NECK CHAINS, GOLD AND PLATED SETS, RINGS, 81 L'D.S SLEEVE BUTTONS, SH AWL, LACE ANIHUFT PINS, GOLD AND SILVER THIMBLES, Solid Silver and Silver Plated Forks, Spjons, Ladles, Sugar Shells, Butter and Fruit knives, olive, PICKLE AM> SARDINE FORKS, NAPKI I RINDS NI T PICKS, SILVER PLATED TEA SETS, ICE PITCHERS DOBLETM, CAKE BANK ET8, FR ITT STANDS, Child's tups, Child's Knire, Fork and Spoan In Case*. FINE SILVER PLATED TABLE KNIVES, CARD STANDS, VASES, &c. 124 Water Street, Augusta, Maine. SURVIVED THE FIRE C. A. WADSWORTH, M erohant Tailor, Whose establishment went down amid flame and smoke, at the recent conflagration, ba« remoYed to the ROOMS OVER DEANE PRAY CO.’S, Where he has just teceived an elegant stock of Major E. H. Reynold* Continues ns Cutter. Ladjea’ Cloaks CJut mid Made and War ranted to Fit. X. XI. REMEMBER THE STYLE AND FIT OF 01 K CLOTHING IS SUPERIOR A2jY_IN_THE_ClTY._ decidttf TRUE ECONOMY is not Buving the Lowest Priced Articles! Tli© Best Is Clioapest So with the Fine Cultivated Spices, Imported by Messrs. Pinckney, Jackson Co., cf London and New York We have lust receive.] another shipment nr th:> Uools, ami especially invite the Hlteiti la cousumera lo tbem. These Spices are uol only PFItl!, but are trillion! a doubt the FINEST Impelled into llii* Country. We confidently Recommend them as being really of Unusual Merit KKPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND 1ST FULLER PERCIVAL, Grocer?, Augusta __ liTT.io tn TO TOE COTTON TIE TRADE. New Yokk CITY, Jan. 2,1877. i Merchants, manufacturers, and others interested in theCottou Tie Trade, are hereby informed that the American Cotton Tie Co., Limited, is the sole owner of the light to make, use or Mil in the Amer ican market metallic bale ties provided with Arrow or other "open-slotted” buckles, whatever the spe cial iorm of such buckles may be, aud recent deci sions of the U. 8. Courts establish the right ol the Company to injunctions against any and all at tempted re-u-^e of such buckles once made and sold by the Company, whether with new or pieced bands. The Company is resolved upon a vigorous pros ecution of all Infringers of its lights in this regard; and to this end suits have already been begun against Northern manufacturers of so-called second hand open-slot lies, and agaiust dealers in the same in Calvestou, St. Louis, New Orleans, Sa vannah, Atlanta, Charleston, and elsewhere. This notice is gnen in the hope that all well-dis posed persons w ill be b d thereby to respect the Company’s rights, ami thus avoid au expensive but not uncertain litigation. Any reasonable information as to the Company’s patents, or lit igaiiou under the same, uiay be had upon application to the undersigned. J. J. MCCOMR, Director of the ▲m*risiin Cotton Tie Co., Limited, atri-teodu* .'-To Hi t 1 Avenue, New Voik. BEAL TURNER" Dkalerb In Choice Family Groceries, Flour, Grain,,t Country Produce. Pure Spices, Teas and Coffees, Aso., Ate. All at Lower Prices. Call and tee them At No. 4, Under Granite Hall. unelt- 1 DRESS MAKING -AND Ladies’ Heady Made Under wear 7 A AUUVSIA The n isses .Susie au.l Aellie dale Would respectfully ln 'orm their friends and the puhlie that they h tve recently opened rooms'ou Water street, Augusta, Over Titcomb’s Drug Store, Where they carry on Dress Making in ail its branches, and aljjo keep coneiuntiy on hand ladies underwear; also Ladies’ Wrappers, Dressing Sacqucs, Aprons, Hosiery, Ciloves, Weeklies, Lacr, Dress Linings, Kibhosis, Corsets, And all small wares. They have also very nice Silk Fringed aud Mur a Trimmings, ami WORSTED AND CANVASS Of all kind* and everything that goes with worsted work. INFANTS’ OUTFITS MADK TO ORI>EIl. Having recently vUited Boston, all their styles are the newest and most elegant and fashionable. PRICE* VERY LOW. Knife, Single and Box Plaiting, done to order. june2*iAw .for Salt or to Irt. Faim Tor Sale. A Pleasantly situated in AUGUSTA Jkfwt 1*3 miles from the city, on the Sidney fcfTff rhff *tile city of Augusta, on ashington tflrevt, will ha sold low fur cash. For further iiilormutiOD, terms, etc., apply to the subscriber at the larm, or add res, by mjii p Mux Ki*. Au«n,la, Me. 7 1 J \MKS A.JdNKS. Augusta, Jan. 29,1877. Ieb2 tliu t'oc Sale or To Lot. Desirable House on Kart side or Klv HILL HOYT, —DEALERS IR— v CarocerloM ProviNiona, And a foil stock or Meats ol nil kinds and fce.t qualities alwaya on band, Hulls ami Vcgtlables in their season. Also selected Teas, Pure Cod es and Spices, Hour, Butter and t hecse, Choice 8y! rup and MohotcH, Canned Fruits iu variety. All of which will he Hold na cheap a* elnew here. Remember (he Blue Store. No, 175 Water St., two Doors south of Kennecec Bridge. Cash paid /or Country Traduce. J.. HILL. P, D. HOYT. Everything New and of the Best Quality IV V N O IV 5 K New Job Printing Office. Up S airs. One Door North of Post Offices AlOESTA, MAINE. Having 111!*-1 up a Job 0(11.-e. mitb SVw an.l Latest Sly I»*h ol Tfpe and other material from the ■WAton roun Jry, I am now prepared to do All Kiads of Printing a neat manner and at reasonable price*, orders by mail will receive the sa me attention a* hough delivered in person. .GEO. E. NASON. ianlS-lu Thousands of Dofais Worth Of All Kinds rnf fur nit urb Fancy (hairs, Brackets, Wall Pockets, Pictures, Picture Frames, Sleds, Mir rors, Ac., Which will be Sold the next 33 Day* Regardless of Cost. gf Please rail and see our Slock before pur chafing. Engraving,Chromo, GIVEN a WAY to PurcbaB.Te) of Good* at No. 7 Orl<l|fc‘M Block. C.R.&H.U. WELLS. deeifrlAwtf GEORGE H. CROSS, m —dealer nr— (•as Chandeliers (•lobes. Burners, And other Fixture s connected iiki the f use of in-*. Plain A Calvan f Ized Iron Pipe* t»a«, Steam»% Wale Piping done to order SHOP MARLY OPPOSITE SEW 1.11 AMITE BLOCK, ii'liter Street, eiMgetutm, ,T/r. jaol9-|6m Maine Wesleyan Seminary, FEMALE COLLEGE, II. P. T0R8BY, D. D. LL.D., President. The Spring Term of thia Institution, will com mence March l.\ 1877, and con inuc thirteen weeks. Send for Catalogue. J. L. MORSE, Scc'y Trustees. Kent** till', Feb. 17,1H77. 3w House, Office and Store WINDOW SHADES l Henry G. Staples, Manufactory Concert Hall. Our Wbik embrace, Kveijthlnjc in the Line of OILT AND PAINTED SHADES, AND LETTERING. Ojiler, left at the Manufactory or senl by uml promptly atteml»l t). ilucW-UlAWu WATCHES. Cheapest In tbo known WOJ-M .SumjJ* %ratch (n„t tmfjU fm- to Aonth, Fur termsaddress COl'LTtflt jfc CO.Chicago

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9Loca( anli £tate Ketos. Thursday is the birthday of the “Father of his 'ountry

J. .8. Winslow 4 Co., of Portland, have bought the new ship of 1653 tuns built by W m. Regers of Hath. ___ We find that enthusiastic republicans here are in favor of a celebration and genctai illumination over the national victory. Secretary Boardman is in attendance at the wiuter meeting of the Board of Agriculture, in Newport. The Howard Benevolent Society will meet as usual with Mrs. Edward Nason, this, Wednesday afternoon. A little son ol' Rev. Mr Nutting, formerly of liardiner, had the misfortune to break his leg in Bath on Monday. A gang of ten boys have been arrested in Port land, for stealing about a hundred barrels for the celebration of Washington's Birthday. The larger pait of the State College students have returned from their vacation. There is one new lady student at the College this term. Five tramps occupied the lockup in (lardiner, on Sunday. They were brought to this city on Monday, and lodged in jail, which is already brim full. Frank A. Warren, the young forger, was bailed last week in the suur of $500. The trial was to come on Monday, at Bangor, but young Warren was not tol>c found, lie has doubtless left town, hut nothing is known of his whereabout. The Portland Advertiser says that the republi can caucuses in that city, to nomiuate a candidate for Mayor will be held Feb. 26th. It is reported that the contest has narrowed down to M. M. But ler, 11. B. Cleaves, James Bailey, and Fred Fox, the other candidates declining to stand. We arc sorry that onr Masonic friend* in (iardi ner, have an idea that they can’t afford to have the Cinnamon Bear at their forthcoming levee. We cau assure them that no attraction would draw equal to that, and the bear aud his keeper will go at a reasonable price. They are about to travel through the eastern part of the state. The Bath Times s^vs “We heard a stranger in a neighboring town, recently, speaking iu high terms of the gentlemanly qualities of our enter prising firm of ship-builders, Messrs. Loss Saw* yer. They have won an enviable reputation among their customers. Prosperity be with them !M The volunteer military company at Cardiner, to be known as the “Richards’ Light Infantry,” is to meet on Friday evening, for organization and election of officers. According to the act passed at the recent sessiou of the legislature, this company is made subject to all the duties aud giauted all the privileges of volunteer compa nies of milttia. Superintendent Furber of the Boston it Maine, don’t seem to care al>out again putting the road into the hands of the strikers, even if they want to be taken back. He says; “Now that the thing has gone so far, I have no desire to have the old meu in my employ again, for I should not feel safe with them. I prefer to keep the new men I have got, and want nothing more of the men who have left me. The old men have not proved themselves loyal servants." The question, “Can a clam walk?'’ which has been receiving serious consideration of late iu em inent scientific circles, will probably receive a new impetus upon receipt of the following A gentle man, who came to Bath by rail from llockland Saturday afternoon, emphatically asserts that just the other side ol Wiscasset, he distinctly saw a string of dams matching along, single file, iu the wake of the traiu. lie says they were not walk ing very last, only at about a snail like pace, say Mr. William Sanford a well known citizen, died suddenly in B rngor, ou Sunday morning. He was born in 1816 in Topsham, and in 1833 went to Bangor. He became a clerk iu the store of John i.auc and alterward book keeper for W. T. H. Pierce, from which he finally became one of the firm, lie has been an active member of the First Congregational church, being for a long time an efficient scribe, and occupying mauy positions of trust in the church and Sabbath School. Mr. San lord has for some time been in poor health, but hi* sudden death was unexpected. The City Marshal, with posse, has of late been calling on the keepers of places where rum is sup posed to be sold. They succeeded in capturing twelve and a half gallons of whiskey at Pulsifer’s J saloon on State street; the other evening, after a long hunt. The stuff was hi 1 in a box which had been built alocgii le of the chimney. The cover to the bj\ was in the second story, and was nicely fitted into the lloor, and carpeted over. On swinging this cover back, the officers discovered i in; s running towards the room below, which had a jug attached to the lower end, containing the liquor. A search was made last evening at ■tiercbelfs, hut nothing found. l).!uo:iat§ now-a-d*ys gazo at Tildcn’s portrait ia the Argus counting room with mournful eyes. Those who wish to view the remains will please hurry up, for the lid is about to he screwed dowu. —(Portland Press. The majority of the democrats here arc too ugly and so u -tempered to attend a funeial. They nev vr kutvs b.fore there were so many partizaus on ihe Supreme Bench. One long-faced democrat remarked yesterday that he had lost all respect l\#r the Supreme Court—“he thought once they were a pretty decent set of fellers.” Another democrat of more sanguine temperament, is dis posed to take the matter philosophically, remark ing that the affair has reached such a pass that he is disposed to treat it with a smile. Au interview with the prominent democrats in town would re mit in obtaining a very readable article, but it would be a dangerous job for the reporter. The State Convention of tlie Sovereigns of In dustry will be held in this city to-day. The meet ing; me called at the headquarters of the organi/.a rion of Sovereigns in this city, at thetirand Army |,nil, over Maj. Myrick's apothecary store. The business transactions will pertain solely to the or dii-, and will therefore be mostly of a private na ture whatever is proper to publish, we shall re port in to-morrow's paper. On this evening, Mr. Edwin S. Morris, of Uiddeford, President of the Slate Council Sovereigns of Industry, will give a free lecture at Mcouian Ilall, in explanation of tho principles of tho order. The public (and ladies 'especially) are cordially invited to attend the lec ture. There was a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Council, last evening, at the (hand Army hall. Mr. Edward Church Williams, whose death in this city, we chronicled yesterday, was the son of the late Charles and Sarah Williams. His father was for many years engaged in trade on Water street in this city, where the Journal oflice now stands. Ilia mother was Sarah Williams, daugh ter of Cspt. Seth Williams, and sister of lion. Ttcuel Williams. They had 6cvcn children, all of whom arc now deceased with the exception of Llewellyn, who resides in California, where he removed in 1852, and took up his home, and Mrs. Lucy Woavt, who resides in this cily. For the past few years a great fatality has prevailed in the family. Edward C. just deceased, went to Charles ton, S. c., when quite a young man. and went into a store with his cousiu. Afterwards he went into the wholesale grocery business lor bimstlf, and 1 was in that business daring the war. He divided his time between Charleston, New York, Boston, California, and this city, in each of which places he had many friends. He had been in failing health for some time, of heart disease, although confined to the bouse but for a brief period. Mr. W illiams came to the city last summer, aud has since remained. He was a geuial-natured, pleasant gentleman, respected and beloved by a large circle cf friend*. He was unmarried. I.lewdlyn, the temaining brother, is on his way home from California, and was expected on the traiu last evening. A Plranant Occasion. The neighbors and relatives of dames I’oitcr, Esq and wife cf Vienna, together with friends from Mt. Vernon, met at his house on the 25th of Januaiy last, to unite with them iu celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. The evening was flue and the worthy couple warmly re ceived their friends, though unaware of any such in tention ou their part until tlie morning of the 25tL* Excellent music and abundant entertainment were furnished by their children, Mr. aud Mrs. H. C. Porter, who afford the charming picture of cheer ful youth to light up infirm age in the same house. The other son died in his countiy's defence in the late war. Interesting letters were read containing tokens of remembrance, from Charlestown and Chicago, Illinois and Oxford, Beverly, Natick and Boston, Massachusetts. Many reminiscences of the past were recalled and it became singularly touching when the twin sis ter of Mr. Porter took her place beside his wife at the reman mge ceremony, it; ailing the time when she stood there fifty years before. The unexpect ed tribute from so many friends received very hearty thanks from Mr. and Mrs. Porter. 1 he Porter farm was one of the first clearings in Vienna. Mr. Benjamin Porter the father, then called Lieut. Porter, came from lloxford, Mass., to Wiothrop, stopping there only a few years be fore coming to Vienna, which then bore the more classic name of (ioshen. Like many of the early settlers he had the patriarchal family of fifteen children. Of seven sons, Mr. James Porter is youngallotorll Horal Xctos. The ladies of the Unlversalist Society of this city arc to give levees at Wilson Hall on Wednes day and Thursday evenings of the present week. “Masonry in full character,” a burlesque that gave so gieat satisfaction at Augusta recently, will be repeated here; and also the antics of the world renowned Cinnamon Hear, and his original keep er. Music, refreshments, Ac., as usual on such occasions, particulars of which are given by mam moth posters and advertisements. A runaway and smash-up occurred in this city on Monday forenoon, resulting iu making kiadling wood of one sleigh, which at the end of the race rivalled the relies of the “one hoise shay" so giaphicallv described by Dr. Holmes, the famous dispenser of pills and poetry. Interesting religious services were held at our various chuiches on Sabbath last, day and even* ing. Another Union prayer mcetiug will be held at the Methodist vestry on Fiiday evening next at the usual hour. Hev. Mr. Newcomb of this city is spending the week in attendance upon the Moody and Sankey meetings iu Hoston. Yesterday, Tuesday the 2NT, which also sweetens the breath and causes the gums to assume a ruddy hue, which foiras a pleasing contrast with ihs teeth. feb21—feod& w l si. From P. N. Robfisb, esq., of Warehara, Mass. “As si remedy lor lung affections, 1 consider Du. Wistak’h Balsam or Wild Cherry the par excellence of all tne numerous pitent medicines, anti never fail to recommend it to my friends who may be afflicted. Mv mother ami sister have both matle use of ttie Balsam, and the effect has far exceeded our most sanguine expectations, completely lettering the former, to the surprise of hei numerous fiiends, oi a haul, dry cough which hail nearly hioken her down. One lias onh to try this excellent remedy to become convinced ol its manitold virtues.” 50 cents and $1 a bottle. Sold by all druggists. I f« b21—feodAv l w. Adamson’s Botanic Balsam. A never failing remedy for Coughs, colds, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, croup, whooping cough, sore throat, Asthma, and all affections of the Lungs, which terminate in Co turnup lion and death. Price 35 cents. feb2ifAwlw. Of all awful night sounds, that of a frightful cough reverberating through the darkness is the mo*t saddening. Would you be spared this in fliction and save the life endangered by the com plaint, administer Hale’s lloney of llorehound ami Tar. Sold by all Druggists. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in 1 minute feb'ilfitwl wrio. Talfcc the sensible view. Tar cleanses, heals and cures Catarrh. The only method of direct application is by inhaling the vapotsofthe “Solu tion of Fotest Tar.” Catarrh is a good thing to get rid of. febl4-lmt*fcw Devine Howard have the endorsement of the following physicians: (i. W. Martin, M. I).; \V. S. Hill, M. D.. ii. E. Brickctt. M. D., W. Bolan, M. n. II. Hill, M. D., J. O. Webster, M. D. L. J. Crooker, M. D. cod ftf Aching Heads and Uneasy Nerves Art often soothed by Hosteller's Stomach Bitters, because that searching corrective completely re* move* the causes 01 brain aud nerve excitement, which are to be found In derungemenl of the stom ach, and of its associate organs, the liver and bow el*. It is a truth which cannot be loo earnestly insisted upon, that the effect ot mere sedutive* and I narcotics, like bromide of p jlussiuin, valerian, chloral hydrate and opium, la lota appreciable the longer they are used, and that they can never per* maoently relieve nervous excitability, because they cannot remedy the weakness and organic de rangeroeot wh ch lies at its root*. 11 osteite i'i* Bit* 1 ter», however,ran ur.d does cure nervous maladies, lor the reuftou alreadv staled. Sick headaehv, re-i lessiieas ut uignt, veitigo, mentrl Deaviuea*, and. depression ol apirits, a* well a- ttie dyspeptic con* I dilion on he slomach.and torpidity 01 the liver and b iweU, which give rise to them, are entirely ob\ i ous by Ihls benign alterative tonic. le /Jl*ieulAw!w Many thousands of dollars are spent annually iu distributing, Iree of charge, Sample Bottle* of Boshcee's Herman Syki i* to all parts of the country to those sutfeiiug from l oughs, Asthma Hemorrhages, Consumption, and other Tbioat and Lung Hissases, that the afflicted might satis fy ihemselvis, that this temedy would save them from those fatal diseases. No person has ever used (his medicine without getting immediate re lief, yet there*ire a great many poor, suffering, skeptical persons going about our streets with a suspicious cough, and ihc voice of consumption coming from their lungs, that will not try it. If you die, it is your own fault, as you can goto your druggist and get a sample bottle for 10 cents try it; three doses will relieve anv can*; reg* gular size only 75 cents. det*9-+TTS& w J«arr(ft. In West Bath, Tib inet., Pt ltiuh M. Gei r, ol Bulb, to Mia* Annie M. Campbell of We*l Ruth. In Bath. 15th in«t.( Aiiioa Starkey ol Uos'cn t Min* Esther A. Lowell, of Bath. In Green. ltth in*t., Elijah 8. Daley ol Green, to Mrs. OoUvi iG. Daley of Turner. In Ferry Village, Cape Elizabeth )5th in*t Wal ter Maxwell to Mias Mary F. Staples, both ol Cape Elizabeth. In L'tclifield, 31st ult., Amos R. Williams of West Bath, to Miss Annie M. Parker of Lewriston; 31st ult., Albert F Jenkins ol hast Wh o*, to Miss Nel lie A. Jackson ol Litchfield. SirH. In Portland, 18th Inst., Henry C. Newball in the 63d year oi his Age. In Gorham, 17th iutt Mrs. Mary Cane', wil3 of Mr. Stephen lliukley, aged 3«» years. TO LET! ONE-IIALF of a Two Story House on Court street. Ir.q lire a'. "43 Court Stkkkt.” febll :u New Box &TATIONEBT. —ALSO— CONVEX GLASS, -FOB Oil Photo. Painting. -AT HORACE NORTH’S. febl. ju EC. PACKARD CO, Druggists Apothecaries, IlKADFIELU. main ic. Prescrlp.lon Dip’t under (hirge tf H. C. Packard, -FOKMF.HLT I THE FIRM OF LAMBERT PACIARD. fvblT-tlw wa.NTur> s Young Bey lo Assisi In Bookdorr. -APPLY TO HORACE NORTH. febl't :if A NEW EXPRESS Has been started under Hie name of LITTLE CJO., Express ILnning Between Augusta A Boston UA.IJL.Y. Connecting with all Expresses running sinth and wed. The Proprietors wish to inlonu the pub.ii that they have established a sew express line hav ing had seven years experience in the business, K Hardware, Iron, Steel Gins, Of the late tirm of C. W. SAFFJRII SON Will bs Sold CHEAP FOH CASH, il applied for b fore Saturday, Feb. 24. E. W. WHITEHOISF, Adm. Augusta. Feb. 12, 1877. feblRtllt CENTRAL Fish Orstcr Market The Best Place to Euy Your FISH AND OYSTERS. -CONSTANTLY ON HAND I'VokIi. Suit. lM00 for obstructing the United States mail ou the Boston Maine railioad, by induciug engineers to leave woik. lie will he examined next Tuesday. NEWPORT. Hoard of Agriculture. New pout, February 20. The Maine Board of Agriculture organized the ensuing yeai by choice of the following officers President—Ira E. Getchell, North Vassal boro'. Vice President—VV. \V. Harris, Portland. Secretary—S. I.. Boarduian, Augusta. An appropriate address of welcome by A. 11. Powers of Newport, was fittingly responded to in behalf of the Board, by Gen. Brown of Portland. Papers were read by Thomas Beynolds, mem ber from Oxford, on hop culture, giving the sta tistics of the culture iu his section, and stating that the Maine hop has special value for its keep ing qualities; and by Peter W. Ayer of Waldo, on what constitutes a thoroughbred. This ques tion was discussed in a very profitable manner by Mr. Wasson, Mr. Ayer, Mr. Gilbert, Gen. Brown and Mr. Nelson, until the noou adjournment. The attendance was unusually large for the opening day. The afternoon session was opened with an ex cellent paper on poultry raising by W. W. Harris of Portland, which was followed by au admirable one by the president, Mr. Getchell, ou what pro ducts shall Maine export. A reference in the lat ter paper to the importance of utilizing in the State the refuse of its fish oil manufactories, for manurial purposes, called out a veiy interesting discussion on the subject, iu which Messrs. Was son, Harris, Wiuslow of Nobleboro’, Ireland of Coirina, aud the secretary participated. The eveuing session was devoted to the subject of lloricultHie, presented by J. N. Varney of North Vussalboro’, and a lecture on social life of the farm, by Z. A. Gilbert FARMINGTON. Accident. Farmington, February 20. A young lady named Eva I. Whittier of Vicuna, a student of the normal school here, was seriously injured this afternoon, by being run over by A. I). Horn, a livery »*aMe keeper, who was diiviug carelessly. KNK-IITSVILEF. Fire. Portland, February 20. The dwelling house of Win. M. Williams at Knightsville, was binned tonight. Loss $1000; insurance $3000. A Maine Ycsst‘1 Ashore. Boston, February 20. A dispatch from r leans, Mass., says the schr. Tbos. P. PdUburv of Thomaston, Maine, went a-hore at Nauset Tues day morning. she was boiiLd from New Orle&ns for Boston with cotton. .m:h VUKJi. To lie Contested. New York. February 20. It is reported that Cornelius aid between witness and Murphy, about a mouev rewatd to be given to Littlefield for exposing what he knew. There is no doubt in witness'mind that Littlefield expected some kind of reward in case his exposures resulted in breaking down the returning hoaid and electing Tilden. Don Piatt. Col. Piatt stated to-day to a reporter that the article in the Capital which has occasioned legal proceedings against him was entirely his own production, and no one else had anything to do with the writing thereof. The Government's case against Don Pia‘.t was before the Grand Jury to day. ILLINOIS. Suspended. Bloomington, February 20. The Pluenix i savings loan and trust hank, of this place, owned by Coiydon Weed, suspends business to to mor row, on account of financial difficulties. Mr. Weed is one of the largest money lenders in the West, operating with capital owued in Hartford and other eastern cities, lie has paid Ids cora mer« *al and savings deposits, ami says all his bank liabilities are seemed hut a few thousand*. His loans foot up $.‘1,000,000, all indorsed by him, ami pi incipally secured by liens on available lands Hi* embarrassment is caused by the shrinkage in land values. —w r ARAD A. Financial. Mojtrea?., February 20. There is a panic on the stock exchange here, and a meeting of stock holder* of .the Merchants’ Bank was held yester day, at which a statement was read showing very heavy los-c*, but that there were £400,000 above liabilities in the capital cf the bank. Manager Kea tendeied hi* resignation. i:t itoi’i;. Tal on the English Cead. I.omnin, February 20. A gale prevailed anish bark Toba&cj, which put hack .January 29th, from the voyage to Hampton R .ad* aie ashore. The American hark (teneral Fair child, at Liveipool from Charleston, wa* dam aged by collision in the Mersey. COXDERSFD TELEGRAMS. Timothy Lynch was run over yesterday and killed on the Old Colony lailroad. The residence of Walter Aiken of Franklin Falls, N. IF, one of the finest in the state was burned yesterday. Loss fifty thousand; no iosur ance. The box factory of Spoffori A Son, of Marble head, Mass., was binned yesterday also *5,000 feet of lumber. Loss about $?000; insuiauee light. The main eastern approaches to the iron rail road bridge across the Mississippi river at ist. Louis, were destroyed by lire early yesterday ferenoon. It probably will be several days before tiains will b» able to pass. The schooner Catrie Melvin, of Thomss‘on, which was dismasted and stranded on the beach ticar Cape Itomaiu Dst fall, and aftciward towed into Charleston, was sold on the 14th lust., for $1000. The president has nominated Chief Engineer •Shock to lie chief of the bureau of steam engi neering in the navy department. Itussell S. Hooper of Jlroekton, Ma-s., was killed by the 9.15 A. M. train from Plymouth be tween llenran and Halifax yesterday. He was crossing the track in a wagon. The examination of the St. Louis blidge yes terday, shows the damage to the structure not nearly so great as acpubended. The actual damage will uot exceed $.50,000. No delay of trains will result. Mrs. Peter Day of Mousiu, Mass., took oxslic acid this morning, by mistake for salts, and died in a lew minutes. In the Philadelphia municipal election the chief point of interest was the contest for mayoralty. The republican nominee was Win. S. Stoklry.tbe present encumbent. The democrats made no nomination, but endorsed Joseph L. Catew, the reform candidate. Complete returns from twenty eight wards give Stokley a majority of 3,289. 'Fhe wauls to he heard fiom will probably increase his majority to 4.000. Weather Indications lor To-day. For the Middle and New England States, falling barometer, warmer southwest winds, cloudy weather, except possibly in Maiue and the Canadian provinces, winds shift to cooler, easter ly with lising barometer. FtJitTY -FOU RTH CON OK ESS. Second Session. House. Washington, February 20. House met at 10 o’clock. Half an hour was consumed in calliug the roll. Hibson offered an order that the Ha>es electoral vote of Louisiana be cot counted. beelye said that in the case of the Louisiana election it seemed to Inin perfectly clear (that the charges made by each party against the other were in the main true. No facts wore ever proved more conclusively than the fraud and cor ruption charged on the one side, and the intimi dation and emelty c harged on the other. Which of the two sides went furthest in their wrong do ing, it would be very bard to say. The corrup tion on one side seem* as licnious as the cruelt} of the other was horrible, and on both sides thete did uot seem to be anv limit to the extent they went to, sava where the requirements of the case did not call lor any more. liramol tliat the con;mission had cleanv inter preted and accurately applied the laws, yet what it the very principles on which the law* must rest become thereby subverted “No nation," said Neibuhr, “ever died except by suicide, aud the suicidal vice is engendered not so much in unjust statutes of a government as in the immoral piac tices of a people which government is unable to punish and uuable to restrain.” •Jovce supported the deci ion of the electoral commission, aud asked whether anybody sup posed that if the decisiou had been the other way the wailing sounds about corruption would have been heard from the democratic party Mr Levy (La.) made an appeal to the great generous American heart in behalf of Louisiana, in this hour of domestic and national peril, and he went on to denounce frauds, committed by the returning board, and to which the Co in in ise ion now gave force and effect. Townsend of IV, expressed bis astonishment at the opposition made to the decision of the elec toral committee by the democratic party, particu larly as the commission was a tribunal of demo cratic cieation. He defended the action. McMahon of Ohio sai l that in his opinion the decision in the case of Louisiana w as worse in the consequence to the American people that the de cision in Florida shows in that case the Com mission had simply disagiecd with the constitu tion. Now it attempted to overrule it. He had been to Louisiana and he could say that Samuel J. Tilden had carried Louisiana as fairly and hon estly as Hayes had carried Ohio. Mr. Rice of Ohio, protested against wrong and violence embodied in the decision, and argued that the whole subject should be referiei back to the commission. CTapo of Mass., said he would defend the ac tion of the returning hoard, hut he asked what must have been the condition of a state that made such a board necessary; that required such a sys tem in order to guard against violence aud to pro tect in their political right the timid, the ignorant and the inoffensive, against the strong, the des pciatc, and the lawless. Mr. NVattorson said the cases are open to the majority on this floor. On the one hand passion- i ate outcry, at once impotent aud childish; on the other hand, without offering needless obstruction to the progress of events an earnest, manly, but temperate protest against what we believe a great and gnevous wrong. In my judgment the latter is oui clear ami bounden duty. Mr. Hanford defended the decision as one which, outside of party feeling, would meet the approval of the whole American people. Cox opposed the adoption of the report of the commission. Keily favored it ami Pratt defended it. The debate closed at one o’clock and the House then proceeded to vote on Hibson's resolution that the decision of the commission he not agreed to. Adopted, yeas 172, nays Vi), a party vote, except that Seclye and Pierce of Mass., voted with the democrats. A message was then sent to the Senate that the House was ready to meet that body in joint eon venuon. At 1.33 o’clock the presence of the Senate at the door of ttic Hall was announced, and the members rose and remained standing while the Senators entered the hall and took seats on the democratic aide of the House. The presiding cflieer having taken ths Speak er’s shair called the meeting to order, and stated that the two Houses acting separately had con sidered and decided the objections to the certifi cates from the state of Louisiana, and that the ac tion of each house would now be read. This having been done the presiding officer an nounced that the two Houses, not having decided other wise, the decision of the C >mmi**ion would stand in force, and he directed the tellers to de clare the vote of Louisiana. Senator Adison, one of the tellers, thereupon announced that Louisiana had given 8 votes for Hayes for President, ani 8 votes for Wheeler for Vice President. There was no manift station of any kind utthcan noum ment ot'the opening and counting of certifi cates, and they proceeded in alphabetical order. The State of Maine gave 7 votes for Hayes anil Wheeler, Maryland 8 for Tiiden and Hendricks, Massachusetts 13 for llayes and Wheeler. When the certificates from the state of Michi gan were read, giving its 11 votes for Hayes aud W heeler Mr. Tucker cf V*.t rose and presented an objection to the counting of the vote of Daniel L. Ciossraan, one of the electors, declaring that one H nton Haochett having hecn elected one of the electors for the State of Michigan, aud having held and still hoi ling the office of United States i mmissicaer, had absented himself I iron tbe meeting of the electors on the 6th of December, a nd that hij place bad been filled by the otbc elector. I The objection claims that the fact that Ilanchet absented himself from the meeting did not cieatc a vacancy, and therefore that said Croesman had not been duly appointed as elector. 'I he objection also submits the testimony oi Denton iianchett before the committee ou privi leges, in which he states that he has never resign ed his office of 1 mted States commissioner, and i ,h#t he absented himself for that jeason from the meeting of the electors. The objection ia signed by senators Norwood, W allace, Barnum and lleraford. and hv represen tstives A. S. Williams, Tucker, Vance (Ohm) Mc Mahon, Dice, Spaiks, Maish, Savage and llurd. 1 he presiding officer then asked if there any farther objections, and none being made, the sen ate withdrew, to let the objection be considered by each house separately and acted on. Mr. Southard of Ohio moved the house take a recess until ten o’clock to-morrow, t Mr. Hale of Maine raised a point of order, that the general scope of the electoral commission bdl intended to prevent delay, and that a motion for a recess was not in order. Ihe speaker said as he understood the intent and scope of the hill a motion for recess was io older, and he thciefoie overruled the point of order. 1 I u the course of the discussion over the ques tion of a recess, Mr. Wood of New Yoik oppos ed the proposition, and submitted that as it was •till eaily in the day, the objection to the count lumi Michigan should he presented at once, dis cussed. and acted upon, so that the electoral count should proceed. Mr. 1 ucte he counted with the other votes of the electors of said state, notwith standing the objection made thereto. The discussion was coutiuucd by Messrs. Mor ton, Stevenson, Bogy, Kcrnanf Sargiut, Morrill, McDonald and Saulsbury, and then Mr. Whyte submitted the following as a substitute— Ordered, That while it is the sense of the Sen ate that uo Senator or Representative or person bolding an office of tiust or profit shall be appoint ed an elector, and this provision of the Constitu tion shall be canied in its whole spirit iuto rigid execution, yet that the proof is not such as to jus tify the exclusion of the vote of Daniel ('rosstnau as one of the electors of the Mate of Michigan, and that his vote should be couutcd. The substitute of Whyte's was rejected by a s‘.i ict party vote, yeas 27, nays 39. The question then being ou the resolution of Mr. Allison, Mr. McDonald moved to amend the first resolution so it would read Resolved, That the objection made to the vote of Daniel L.Cross mau, one of the electors of Michigan, is uot sus tained by any lawful evidence.” Rejected by a strict parly vote. Mr. C ooper demanded a separate vote on the resolutions and, and the first oues as submitted by Mr. Allison, was agreed to, yeas 40, nays 17. The second resolution was then unanimously agreed to, yeas GH, nays 0. Mr. nrisliaiicy moved that the House he noti fied of the action of the Senate, and also that the Senate was ready to meet the House and resume the count. Agreed to. Mr. Harvey presented the credentials of P. B. Plumb, elected U. S. Senator from Kansas for six years from March 4, 1N77. Filed. At 5.13 a message was received from the House announcing the action of that body iu regard to the vote of Crossman, the Michigan elector. Mr. Allison moved that the Senate proceed to the Hall of the House of Representatives to re sume the count. It was agreed to aud the Senate left its cham ber. Upon returning at 5.50 the President pro tem stated the Senate bad withdrawn flora the joint meeting on the objection submitted to the vote of the State of Nevada. The objection to the vote of R. M. Daggett, an elector from that state, submitted iu joint meeting was then icad, and also the testimony of Daggett tnken by the committee on powers and privileges of the House, in regard to bis boi ling the office of clerk ot the U. S Courts, but which he stated he resigned on the Glh of Nov. last. Mr. Jones of.N'cv., submitted the resolution that the vote of K. M Daggett he counted with the other rotes ot Nevada notwithstanding the objec tion made thereto. This was agreed to unanimously, and the Sec retary was directed to notify the House of the ac tion of the Senate. At 6.15 o’clock the Secretary returned and re ported ihat the House had taken a recess before he reached the Hall. The Senate then took a re cess until 10 o'clock to-morrow. Thomas A. Young, of the firm of Grant tl Young, lumberman, while at wmk iu the woods swamping at Greenville, on Saturday last, struck by a tree felled by one of the choppers, and severe’*, and it is feared fatally injured. He wa5— at*l lor demand. Hold opened at SOS', and closed at i0»’. Loan* 21, a a— per cent. Custom* receipts, 4>i7,IOO. Tr.usurr dl.buri.il 17,01*1 imereti, on lor bond#,an I «u itw fer filter. rnifp»l Sixes (coupons). 18*1, JT— V20>, 1H ft, Kjfi, 18U5, (ntw; 1S«7. U2\ I»Wf lift* New-Vs, lift— 10-40'i (coupons), 114 S Currency tt’a, W\ Mew Vork Stock .Market. Delaware A Hud. 53 Canton Co, 24— Consol’d Coal Co. :tn— Cumberland Co. 35— West. U. Tel. Co. 651* Ouicksilv’r Min. Co. 13 Preferred, it PaciUc Mail, 25, Vdani9 Ex., j>„ Wells, largo A Co. m Am. Merch. Cnion, 5s— U. S. Express Co., '0‘4 Men York Central A Hudson Itiver, !8 gr|e.l [Preferred, ]w Harlem, l.V »4 Prelerred, l.H— Michigan Central, ti‘, Panama, 122— Union Pacific, Cake Shore* A Mich* I igan Southern, 51 '4 Illinois Central, ftl\ ClevePd A Pitts., s7l, Chicago AN. W., 32 New York, Feb. SO, ir,;. 1’rererred, V Cleveland Col., 251% Now Jersey, 1214 Chicago ft Hock I is v MU ft st. Paul, if— Preferred. 4.V Toledo, Wabash ft Weatern, Preferred, 0— Pittsburg and Port Wayne, Buy, Terre Haute, 334 Preferred, It— Alton, 05 Preferred, 105— Ohio ft Mississippi, 54 Delaware ft Lacka wans, r5«4 A. ft P. Tel. Co., 10), Boston, liarlfordft Krie, 15— Indiana Central, 2'4 C.B.ftl., 11434 St. Joseph, 10)4 t'en. Pacific bonds, 100)4 Union 10.3 New York Produce Market* Nf.w York, Feb. 20 1877 COTTON— Sales, Wales, 10 o Mid. I’phitnl*, tx;(0 FLOl ll Sales, bbl».. 15 305 No.*2, 4 3—a5 10 West’n A state, ft (*5a5 90 Extra, A 7A-iA 85— Choice* a 10 »m>— Southern, A 75—fl* 50— Rye tbmr firm. 4 50i5 15 WHEAT— Sales,'>ush.. :u*,-oo Ungr’d’dHpr’g 1 ;to Mixed Spring, 1 40— No. 3 Chicago, I 40— Vo. *2 Chicago, I 4-J— Vo. 1 Chicago, 1 .13— No. 3 Mil., mixed, l iff— Winter red wVn, 1 51— New, 1 21 No. 1 Minn., 1 45a 145 No. 2 Mil I Is -al i 0— No. 2 Sheboygan, 1 :-w— New Amber, 1 lift— No. 1 Iowa, 0 0)— White Michigan, 1 15 Winter Western, l«l RYE— Sales, bush 27,0 K) Western, 82—u *5— Inferior, 70 State, 92- a 95 Canada, 95— BAKLKV Sales. bush 10.003 CORN Receipts, butdi Sales, hush.. Iff,(03 Western mixed 50—a'tfc— steam 58— a59 Graded 55V»5d No. 1, .'ft ‘a aid Uugrade 1, 5:—a5«>, While Southern, 5o OA rs Sales, bush., 22,(00 Mixed Weti'o, 41— u55 Stale, 4 5laa.V— While, 451 a a.Vi No. 3 N.Y.,-841 No. 2 39-839* So. 1 32't CUFF KE I.agutrya, 18'« Kio, 17*4 820‘4 Maracaibo. 00—aoo— Java, 28*4 831l* St. I>omingo, 10*4 St UAK Fair and good, i"4a 9J, Ke lining. ft* standard, 11 tiianulated, 11 Sal 1^, Powdered, 12—a0— C'ruahed, 11\' MOLASSES— New Orleans, 4.3—a-V— Porto Rico, 4V—aft', PETKOLKCM Crude. 10* Uellned, ttl7'. TALLOW— 8 VI 8* ROSIN— •2 00-ai 10— PORK Mess, 16 oo a 15 25— Hid, 18 5u Asked, 17 oo— REEF— Extra Mess, 10 50al2 50 Plain Mess, li Shut 75 LARU Ste.ain, 10 2 alO 55 Kettle, 1 47* ClucHgo Produce market. Chicago, Feb. 20, 1877. rLOI It—K\tra spring, go I0a7 7ft. V.r~Nu- 2 sl*«og. 12 *«al4*>« cash I2»\a I .10,; March I 30\ Apltl No. 3, Ida‘.at 20— a-; rejected, l ift.il Oft',. MCORN -No. 2 mixed, 4P* caihi March, 417a i ’ash, 8,-c Apiil MX RYK—No. 2, on ,t. HARLEY —No. j spring, .VaftOXc. PORK —Caah, It 7> nlft 0J-. all year, 00 00: March, 15 75; April Hi 1ft-. L VRO—Cash, l.nu caah; 10 87',alO.DO March 10 Ui Hal 1.00 April. BULK MEATS—Shoulder*, ft ,a—c.; shi rt rib sides,*', i -r,; short clear rib, ►J, a c. Will- KEY—Western, 1 01 1 UKH.it I S—Corn to Buffalo, ftXc., wheat do.. laftc. RKCEIPTS— *0 0 flour; lO.uflO wheat; ii5,OOU corn; 2S,ooo oats; tt.OOi, rye, 24,ooo barley. SHIPMENTS— 4,Too flour. 00, oHI wheat; 28 000 corn; looouoat*; to,oco barley; 3;s rye. CtncinuMti Produce Market. Cincinnati. Feb. 20, 1877 PoltK— gift 50al7 0, Clear Aide*, p—a 9 LARI’— BACON— Steam, 10 ft n 10 17 Shoulders. THa i‘*a7’» Clear rib iidea,9 KaH BI LK ME kTS— Hear aide*, b’.alo Shoulders, ft '.afl- WHISKEY-• 1 Ofta_ Clear rib •idee, a? lloston Mock l,ist. Boston, Fob. 20, 1877. (Salca at the Broilers' Board.l Eastern Railroad, 4'le ami first JAMo. 1‘ari Wnlar* «**nt five. Ah<ir«*»S J \N »1: 1 i i x M. Iv'ilB.Mo*

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