The Portland daily press., 1873-09-26

Rates of interest in New York last Friday
and Saturday: From 1856 rer cent per an
mum, OF per cent. per day, to 1,S25 per cent
per annum. or 5 per cent. per day.
As for the SPECTATORS, the sooner they fail /
the better, and there are many who would |
like to see the law Of Imprisonment for debt !
revived for their benefit Worcester Gazette. |
George Alfred Townsend credits the dstin-
gushed editor fthe Springfield Republican
with possessing IA sobriety short but effe ctive
and almost impatient" This revelation
reads like the production of a writer whose
inebriety possesses all the peculiarities of Mr..
Bowless sobriety except its brevity.
OF course the PottsuiUe Miners Journal
says this, we quote: The little girls are keep
ing house now, aud inviting other little girls
TO take tea with them. The tea consists
mostly of warm water served in miniature
wooden dishes, and slice of green apple with
worm i'll it The little girls drink the tea
and chew the apple with proper so.emnity.
Then they say Il shan'tp' You're just as
mean as you can bev' 81 shall 60 right
home, nowp' and kick each other on the legs,
and disperse.
The Stats Zeitung finds in the financial
panic some occasion for rejoicing. 1t hopes
the warning will be taken to heart for some
time to come. ANY lesson that will arrest
our luxurious mode of living and stop the APP
pang and .hameiul corruption so prevalent
through )ut all classes of society cannot be
purchased too dearly.
The World takes up the cudgels for the
great weed and says. ''Not being so CONVEX
,,,+A 80 =.
Mr.. Trask, we can neither deny nor confirm
the latter's dogmaiic statements that the use
of tobacco is a defiance of God and its
growth dissertation of soil which God de-
signed for the good and happiness of his chill
dren; albeit our earlier religious training led
to faith that whatsoever grew did so in COM
pliance with the Almighty's designs
The World says the effect of the stoppage
of transactions in foreign exchange is already
falt in tha nvnnrf t~ades and tho saarl<ats of
the West and South begin to respond with
indications OF distress.
The ". Y. Herald thinks this is grand
opportunity for General Grant to cap the
climax of career already as splendid as
Washington's by an open declaration that he
cannot become party to the crimes and
Vaccinations of mere politicians or of politi-
cal and financial adventures in their efforts
to destroy. He cannot better do this than
by an absolute refusal to accept a renomina-
tion for the Presidency.
The wild man of the Lexingtons (Ky.)
Caucasian thus announces the defeat of But
Ter in the Massachusetts State Convention:-
The roaring, rearing, rampagerous Beast
the foaming, froihing, fiendish Beast-the
blathering, brawng, clustering, backguard
Beast-the believing, bear-eyed, birthstone
belching Behemoth of Lowell, was defeated
las Wednesday, in the Nasty Nasty Nasty
chusetts State Thieves'-Own Convention for
Governor!
The storm from which we are now suffer-
ing has been long gathering in the financial
sky, and long threatening 20 burst. The
great wealth and prosperity of the country
have postponed it from time to time. We
shall get through it now safely enough if the
public will only show the spirit and good
sense which enabled us to pass safely through
the tremendous trials OF the war.-N. Y.
Times.
If the railroads want to preciptate such a
war land that would seem to be the desite),
let them come right up and show their hands.
Those people who are obliged to use railroads
as means for transporting their grain and
wares are not going to remain quiet Willie
the monopUlists are cutting their threats.
Mark atlLFond du Lac Wis., Common
acedtth.
Augusta is to have a granite receiving |
tomb of a capacity to receive sixty bodies. |
As yet there has not been much of a demand |
for berths, but the Superintendent of public |
burials is hopeful.
The financial storm has now lasted week,
and the facts of its wild career and the |
events OF the seven days, demonstrate that |
this panic was unnecessary. 1t began in a
delirun OF excitement, aud was set in active |
motion by artful men who played upon the |
public pulse reeAessly but ski.uliy. |
Outside of little vortex under the shadow
of Trinity, the whole land was sound and |
prosperous and in no peril Commercial |
Advertiser.
Caldwell Brothers of Sherman Mills have |
recently received from, New Sweden fifty
three orders, counting to 447 trees. for |
Woodstock apple trees. The orders were for
small lots, as The Swedes have but little room |
for orchards, and less money to pay for them. |
Yet these orders for apple trees are signif- |
cam. They prove that this new colony pro-
pose to make permanent and comfortable
homes, and they know how much comfort
and profit there is in an orchard, even
ouOuSu ID Dc SHdit one. lUlDk OF IL, IN /
1874 there will be fifty-three new orchards |
started in New Sweden, where but three |
years ago the native forest was growing
North Star
The danger of the practice of banks allow
ing we'll kno Hn depositors to overdraw their |
accounts to a large extent, has been pretty |
clearly exhibited in the last few days. That |
was the immediate cause, and greatly embar-
raised banks that were Lot actually forced to ]
suspend. 1t is custom which should here |
after be "honored in the breach."-N. Y. |
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