The Portland daily press., 1873-10-02

laughed at over London as man who al
ways seemed to be smelling something bad;
while Motley, our great historian, was regard
ed as one much given 20 English lords. and
rather naughty to his unhappy countrymen
because of their humble origih. Old Reverdy
Johnson, Oh the contrary, was regarded with
admiration, and he is a gentIeman.-D0n
PiGtt.
Senator Conkling has not drawn his back
pay, nor has he done that which in some cas-
es seemed only like yielding to the compul-
sion of public clamor-that is, after waiting a
long time, adopting the rather doubtful pro-
cess OF Covering it into the treasury But,
having from the first shown his purpose, he
follows the dignified course indicated in the
resolution, which is as manly in 3 hit as it is
happy in thought.-Albany Journal.
Mr.. Conway writes from London to the
Cincinnati Commercial that the next Parlia-
ment will certainly grant women the elective
franchise.
The more Bradlaugh reads the American
papers upon him, the more he wants to go
home. 1t is the saddest case of nostalgia on
record,
There are still further developments of
panic in New York. A young lady and
gentleman of rich . but respectable parents
have just fed the city together.
The popular conundrum is, if Commodore
Vanderbilt was able to furnish ten millions of
dollars to ease the money market, as he pro.
posed to the President on Sunday, why did
he let his Union Trust Company break be-
cause his Lake Shore Railroad Company Dwell
it one million and three quarters and could
not pay that sum?
The Providence Journal says the present
condition of things pretty foccibly reminds
all of us that the nearer we keep to an eco
nomical and legitimate business, the safer we
shall be If the lesson is learned in time.
and by all, we shall escape the renewal OF the
scenes OF 1887 and 1857; it not, within a
few years we shall have a.revulsion to which
the present will appear trife.
For the benefit of the Senate transporta-
ton committee, the Cincinnati Commercial
republishes this advertisement from paper
of fifty years ago: ga wagon will start for
New York city in about two weeks. Five
passengers will be accommodated at S25 each.
Apply at the store of Ashworth & Smith,
corner of Walnut and Fifth streets. August
ID, 1928.
The Commercial Advertiser says the Presi-
dents high stand in regard to the business
community and the banks is everywhere COM
mended. He is closely watching the bear
ings of the financial storm upon the manu-
facturers, and will do all that is legally posi-
BILE to avert disaster from them and to sus-
tain the interests OF labor
Muley Abbas succeeds his brother as EN-
p.ror CT Morocco. His front name has
most singular derivation. Once, when mere
by, he went seven days and nights without
anything TO eat. rather than haul water for
the Empress, VINO then did her own family
washing. Ever after that he was called Mu
ey.-Brookiyn argus
The Cleveland Leader has an article on
''Prima Donnas as Women" We should be
glad TO know what the Leader has to say on
''Prima Donnas as Boys" now.
Over one hundred papers have observed,
within the last few days, that ''too many
Cookies spoil the BROTH This must inev-
tably introduce a new era in jokes, and here
after all those that are of any special i'm
portance, will be patented.
There is a time in the history Of every
parry WuCu q SO'iGCob dliSCo
for the ascendency between its better and
worse elements. When that time arrives in
the republican ranks, let US who believe it to
be the party of the industry, intelligence and
conscience of the country refuse without a
resolute struggle at every point to surrender
it to control which would drive from it
those who sincerely hold the principles upon
which it was founded. -Harper's Weekly.
A Brooklyn official has been induced by
thesyren-like solicitations of a New York
reporter to confess that zone good investi-
eating committee in charge of some disinter-
ested accountant would do more good than
all the others put together"
The Boston Advertiser thinks that the rea
sons for having confidence in the future of
buciness and Of the money market are mnl-
tiplying, and unless something unforeseen &C.
ours to reverse the favorable movement
now in progress, the condition of the banks
will steadily improve, with the best OF results
to commerce.
The New Orleans Herald is rapidly gain
ing in its endeavor to bring its record of
events up to the present time. 1t has caught
up already, as far as the execution of Num-
ford by General Butler, and there are hopes
that, ere long, it will be able to give its read
ers accounts af events as they trauspre from
day to day.
The N. Y. Times says the dealings in COM
mercial paper begin again to assume their le-
Ultimate proportions, and there is reason to
hope with energy and mutual good will in
business circles the country may now get
through its troubles without further serious
embarrassment