The Portland daily press., 1873-11-01

A passenger on an Ohio railroad, aroused
from serene sumber by the footing OF whistle
exclaimed petulantly, 1.-THE train has caught
up with those cattle again.
The number of messages sent by postal tele-
graph in Great Britain for the week ending
October IL, 1872, was 319,995; for the week
ending October II, 1873 372, 1884; increase, 81
$780,
The new constitution for Pennsylvania will
be voted on at special election in December
and it adopted will take effect on the first of
January, unless where otherwise provided in
the instrument itself.
The Sacramento Union declares that Gov.
Booth will certainly be elected United States
Senator from California, if there is such a
thing as good faith among representatives, or
strength in the popular will. The San Diego
World, Democratic paper, takes the same
view.
The letter of the Pope to the Emperor Will
liam continues to attract attention, and is fur
ther commented upon by the British press.
The Times says that the more carefully it is
examined, the more it will he found to repay
examination, and the more will be the points
of curious interest it will disclose
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
pronounced the act passed by the last legisla-
ture, entitled Gan act to prevent fraud in
elections in Cities" unconstitutional, so far as
it has reference to the appointment of super
visors of elections by the judges, in requiring
of them power which is not judicial but ex-
ecutive.
The Republican State Committee of Mary
land, after investigating the last municipal
election in Baltimore, say that repeating was
done in the midst of the police, and that well
known citizens, whose names had been voted
upon, were unable to procur the arrest of the
offenders, By these means the Democrats
manufactured large majority in Baltimore,
for fleet epon the November elections. But
their frauds were too clumsy to escape detec-
tion, and their rascality will not bring them
the expected reward.
General Jubal Early, the Rev. Dr. j. L. Nc
Curry, General Wade Hampton, the Rev.
Moses D. Hoge and Major Robert Stiles were
the principal speakers at the meeting of the
Southern Historical Society at Richmond We'd
nesday. The speakers generally rep1diated the
the idea of of apologizing for their connection
with the Confederacy. General Early stated
that it was the purpose of General Lee to write
a history of the late war, and that he was
gathering the material for it at the time of his
death.
The Christian Union" thus alludes to the
Rev. Mr. Murray's officiating at his fathers
funeral:
"The Rev. w, III. Fl. Murray, of Boston, in
officiating at the funeral of his father, certain
ly violated a conventional rule; but who shall
say that he violated any law of Inherent proprI-
ETY., or that he did not set an example that in
many circumstances might be wisely initiated?
When "A man comes to his grave in full age,
like as shock of corn cometh in his season.
who is likely to be better qualified than a low
ing, reverentia) son to utter the words'of affec-
ton, comfort, hope, and exultation? I'VE can
imagine case in which a son might well
shrink from officiating at his fathers funeral;
but in many instances we should think such
service on the part of a son would be peculiarly
appropriate and beautiful