The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-17
Current Notes.

The Boston Aduertiser endorses the Otta-
wa and Georgian Bay Railroad scheme and
tells its readers that they have invested mill
lions in railroads to build up other cities, but
intimates that they have done little for them
selves. 1t also informs them that if business
is to be built up something more must be
done than to make speeches.
1t is Jones-Jones of Nevada is the person
who is mediating between President Grant
and Senator Schurz
The Tribune, describing Saturdays scene
at the pound, says: ''The dogs, each and all,
felt the shadow of impending DOOM" Might
not the scene be properly termed the "Yelp-
ers' Impending Crisis ?"-Commercial Adoer-
iser.
The chances for new currency bill at this
session are not very good, and on the whole
it is better to let things run along as they
are than to have any such bill passed as the
present Congress would be likely to agree
upon. Business men may make their calcu-
lations accordingly-BOston Herald
General Armstrong; Hampton normal and
agricultural school for negroes near Fortress
Monroe, Va, celebrated its commencement,
last week, with quite number of prominent
educational gentlemen from Virginia and
Washington and various New England cler-
gymen present, including Rev. John w.
Harding of Longmeadow and Rev. Henry l..
Griffin of Connecticut. The school has 200
pupils and 20 teachers, and continues to be
the most noted and successful of the educa-
tiOnal enterprises for the colored race in the
South 74I .e
The New York Times is making distant
war upon that thieving Governor Moses of
South Carolina. The Times can't say any
thing bad enough to injure Moses or those
who would re-nominate him. We should
like to see him defeated in convention, and if
not there, at the polls by any decently honest
man. We think the strongest lunged organ
would lose voice when called upon to help
Moses out of the wilderness.
This is good week for the honester con-
gressmen to keep Their eyes and ears open,
their wits well about them, their lons grded
about, and their lamps trimmed and burning.
For it is the last week of the session.. They
know what that means. So does the lobby.
So do the people, Springfield Republican.
Senator Logan has been endorsed by the
Republican convention of Hamilton county,
ILL.,, for the Presidency in 1876. With the adj
ditional imitation which this announcement
will produce, Mr.. Logan's situation may be
regarded as critical.
They kill dogs in New York with gas
which suggests to some one that this work
of death might be carried on much less ex-
pensively in the capitol of the nation.
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks, of St. Johns
bury, is prominent candidate for the lieu
tenant-governorship of Vermont.
The portfolio of Minister of Justice of the
Dominion has been rendered to the Hon. A.
j. Smith, Minister of Marine and Fisheries,
at present acting temporarily as Minister of
Justice.
The Philadelphia Press is very certain that
the people will speak so loud on this currency
question that even the executive will hear.
Don't he confident M. Forney; dreadful
stubborn man is Mr.. Grant.
The AdUertiser's report of the caucus at
Kittery Indicates that trap was sprung by
the Hamlin men, who persisted, notwith-
standing numerous protests, in eecting dele
gates to the county convention, which has
not yet even been called.