The Portland daily press., 1874-04-30
Current Notes.


1t is now suggested by the Rochester Dem
ocr0t that "B. F. B." means ''bill, for
bullion.' ~ Hoe
The Rev. DIR. Thomas, Methodist of Chica-
go, is accused of having been "for the last
ten or fifteen years, oscillating between con-
ferences, with the chip of heresy on his shout
der daring somebody to call him to account"
The Tden Enterprise, paper published
by the young ladies of Tilden Seminary,
West Lebanon, N. H., highly commends Mrs.
Woolson's lecture ON dress reform in one edi-
torial paragraph, ard warmly praises trashy
fashion monthly in the next.
The Boston Journal says a good word for
artificial butter known by the jaw-trying
name of ''oleomargatine." 1t says it is as
palatable, fine looking and every way as nice
as much of the genuine article in the market
which is very faint praise. m
The Argus x is now growing because the
Portland e. Ogdensburg Railroad Company
does not draw so much money OF the city as
in the past, and onders if the Eastern Rail-
road is not paying something. We fear not.
He is an honest man, for no man can be term
ed honest who is false to himself-to; his
pledged word.-BOston Journal Of Com
merce. s ..tf.- . s, -.
Vice President Wilson has written to the
Philadelphia Press that the statement that he
took part in the Massachusetts, senatorial
contest is incorrect. He took no part for or
against any one and would have been pleased
to have seen Charles Francis Adams in the
Senate.
The New York Times says that ''of all the
degraded types of civilized man, the farm la
borer of the midland and southern parts of
England probably ranks lowest in the SCALE
For generations he has been underpaid, un-
derfed, reared in cottages where filth and
neglect helped to stint the physical man, and
where overcrowding deadened all sense of re-
finement in the moral nature"
The Times is very severe upon Mr.. MUIR
tagh, the Washington organ grinder because
he got a contract for firm and by so doing
cancelled a debt of $4,000. Government
advertising must be light.
The Boston Advertiser says: SIT is no dis
paragement to any one to say that Mr.. La
mars speech is the most significant and
hopeful utterance that has been heard from
the South since the war. Were the North
assured that such temper prevailed through
out that section, our reconciliation would
lack no element of Completeness
''Perley'' is glad that he learned the bust
ness of Washington correspondence before
the era of detraction and SANDER.
The Hartford Courant pronounces Senator
WINDOWS transportation schemes "Uto-
pian." Few if any journals in the East IA
vor them.
Gen. Logan is said to be talking wildly
again about the President and third term
since the veto. He (Logan) is candidate
himself, and is over sensitive. He says that
forty million people are mere trife in the
hands of the national banks.
The Springfield Republican says that Carl
Schurz is going to stump Missouri for re-
election next fall, on his record as Senator.
We fear the Bogy democracy will be too many
for him.
The Springfield Republican has its banking
plan which to gradually withdraw the entire
greenback currency so as to leave a fair field
for new bank notes, provide for constant re-
demption Of bank notes by clearing houses,
after which remove all limitations upon the
number and circulation of banks and the
management Of reserves; sinstead of the
present taxes, make them surrender the
United States bonds on which they now draw
six per cent. interest, and accept in its place
four and one half or five per cent. bond.
The bonds thus owned by the banks and on
deposit with the Treasury amount to about
1890, 100000, of which $23O,0O0,0O0 are five
per cent. and the rest six. The substitution
of four and one-half per cert bond for
these would save in interest just about the
about the amount now collected from the
banks in taxation-and do away with the cir
cumlocution."