The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-11
Current Notes.

The receipts Of the Dominion confedera-
ton, during the first six years of existence,
were $1O4. 443, 1859, and the regular expendi-
lures 1914, 256,SS7. The surplus has been ex-
pended ON public works. e
The New Brunswick leg islature, which has
just closed its last session, will be remember
ed as the progressive one which gave that
Province an admirable system of free schools,
and it is a matter for congratulatlon that the
measure had more supporters at its close than
when it was enacted. In the election of
members for the new assembly, the question
of free non-sectarian schools will be the lead
ing issue, the thickheaded conservatives and
the church bigots being hostile to the present
system. s.g -
Tom Scott is biding his time in Washing
ton hoping to push through his Southern Pa
CHIC scheme of robbng tho pooplo of ESQ,
100000. He favor. all similar schemes aud
the thieves will doubtless form strong ring.
The Boston prohibition journal is pleased
with the result in Connecticut. and says that
s'the logic of votes is irresistible" That was
certainly the case in New Hampshire where
these misguided men secured the ascendency
of party pledged to repeal the prohibition
laws over a party pledged to their support,
but it is the logic OF tools.
Ruskin proposes that the students of Ok
ford and Cambridge, instead of wasting their
time in athletic sports, shall take spade, pick
and shovel and "clean the roads and beautify
the landscape about Hinksey, so as to make
- lou -, 4
to have converted 80 or go students to- his way
of thinking and perhaps of acting. . %
The Hartford COurGnt concludes that Hon.
w. W Eaton will be elected by the Demo
Gratis to succeed Mr.. Buckingham, having ac-
cording to its figures So members to Sc for all
others He is the bluest kind of Hunker
and during the war was an extreme Southern
sympathiser. ai .lt5sf9 ., 81 ns
There is lesson and moral here for our
republican leaders and journalists. Their
party is strong; but it is not strong enough to
live upon its past, to indulge in corruption, to
break its solemn pledges to the people, to tri-
file with public opinion, to mismanage the
public business, to abandon the principles and
ALLEVIATE the elements from which its strength
was originally derived. 1t is not strong
enough to affront the morality and common
sense of the country. 1t is not strong enough
to get along without votes. Springfield Re-
publican. " e.
= In reply to the Butler journals of Connec-
ticut which are charging the Courant of be-
ing the cause Of the Republican defeat in
that State, that paper replies that if it had
not denounced the errors Of party leaders and
condemned the rascalities of Butler, and the
conspicuous cases of disregard of the civil SER
vice reform, what is merely a defeat would
have been stampede. The Courant is doubt
less correct. Organ grinding is of the past.
An Iowa professor says that frogs can see
sideways. But this is hardly sufficient to
establish the truth of the assertion that Ben
Butleris OF batrachian origin.-Brooklyn dr.
gus. Is alr..-..f .s. s4I.r.s ...f f.
The New York Mail says: There has been
a good deal of croaklng about the diminution
of railway earnings, which the facts do not
seem 10 sustain. 1t appears that the earnings
of seventeen leading lines of railway from the
LIST of January to the 1st of April, were S24,-
691, 729--or $SOO,6O7 more than the same
lines earned in the same period of 1873. It
is true that the decrease in the month of
March was $3.50, 263. but the enormous win
ter business has more than overcome that.
The Providence Journal, speaking of the
publication of Mr.. Summers suppressed
speech by those who have charge of his pa
q pers, says: ''The proceeding strikes us as ex-
ceedingly il-advised, and as very poor be-
ginning in the execution of the trust with
which they are charged by the dead Sena-
tori --'i '' -'
The Boston ADJ ertiser says: "We are re-
quested to state that the so-called Suppressed
speech" of Senator Sumner was not publish
ed by the authority of his literary executors.
and that they have no knowledge of the
means by which it became public. As to the
wisdom of publishing it, we think there has
been some undue sensitiveness. Copies of
the speech, privately printed, were already in
the hands of many of Mr.. Summers friends,
and the explanatory note which accompanied
it showed it was his intention that the speech
should sometime be made public'