The Portland daily press., 1874-05-27
Current Notes.

A correspondent of the Machias RepubE-
can expresses the opinion that Ex-Governor
Perham is the choice of a large portion of the
people in the vicinity of the State capital
The New York Commercial Advertiser
thinks the rebellious Bowdoin students had
better suspend or expel the faculty, and be
done with it.
The following definitions framed by Sir W.
Lawson, M. P, are in order: English COM
merce with the natives of Africa means rum
and gunpowder: English civilization means
extirpation.
The President has acquitted himself like a
man of sense, and his daughter like girl of
sense, and any man or woman in Washington
society who can discover any snobbery in
this, is by nature the most essential and AZ
rant of snobs.-Chicago Tribune.
There is no crime in the calendar that is
more swiftly punished in this blessed old city
than praying. This offence is of so dark and
fragrant a character that the whole majesty
of the law is promptly put forth for its sup
preston. Cincinnati Gazette.
ESecretary Richardson, in the very face Of
report and resolutions, and the unanimous
condemnation of the press, talks about hold
ing on until the bounding business is over
A queer idea he has of the prophecies -
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rep.)
Whether the International Exhibition is
''to be" or 'not to be- depends upon Con-
gress, and with grandiloquence worthy of
Pratt, the managers state that "the response
bity now rests with Congress-" We hope
Congress will let it rest there till doomsday.
We have had enough shows in this country.
Boston Journal (Rep.)
1t is one of the curiosities of French poll
tics, says the Nation, that it contains a party
which maintains the right of a man to be
elected to the throne because another man
was his father; that is, they hold that he is
entitled by the grace of God to majority at
the polls.
Mr.. James T. Fields asks; els it not amaz-
ing that since 1854 there has not graduated
from any American college man who has
yet made any great mark either as lawyer,
an orator, a statesman, poet, a preacher, an
essayist or an hstorian?" Some very good
rowers and base ball players have been turn
ed out.
The Bullocks, the Moseses, the Claytons
and Dorseys are sure to hang them
selves if they are only allowed rope
enough. Even the negroes will find
them out in due season. and drive them from
the seats they have defiled and the commu-
mites they have ruined.-Rochester Chr0ni-
Gle (Rep.)
College rebellons are apt to be founded
on frivolous reasons; but the one reported at
Bowdoin College is more absurd than usual.
People in this vicinity who remember the
splendid Maine regiments in the war are sur
prised at the pother made on account of the
few hours weekly drill under an officer of
the United States Army. 1t is also ANNOUNCE
ed by telegraph that the Bowdoin boys are
not to take part in the regatta at Saratoga.
Physical training appears to be at a discount
in Maine.-Boston Transcript.
The Advertiser has a moderate editorial on
the Senatorial succession, in which it is stat
ed that Mr.. Drummond is not decoy candi-
date, that Ex-Governor Washburn's friends
will present his name for the position in spite
of the rumors of Boston papers. 1t expects
that when our Legislature assemblies we shall
see the Massachusetts action repeated, at
which Mr.. Hamlin will have the highest bal
lot but will not come any nearer an election
than Mr.. Dawes.
The imitation fever seems to be subsiding
very rapidly in the West. The Indianapolis
Sentinel, published 1T the capital of the State,
which was at one time almost wild on the
subject, gives this assurance of the wonderful
change in public sentiment: "Of all who
formerly talked imitation, there are not doz-
en- prominent men who now confess to it.
The journals which advocated it most loudly
have ceased, and many of them are taking
ground for resumption