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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-03

PuGNlxIANA.-The love for Office is
the root of much evil.
If Miss is as good as a mile, how
good is a Mrs? Probably, she will
be good for League under any circum.
stances.
The difference between mans be.
ing out of money is, that when he's
out Of money he shows the least of it,
but when he's out of temper he shove
the most Of it.
The longest word in the English
language is smiles. because there is q
mile between the first and last letters.
Pious hirts are said to succeed best.
A heavenly smile will tell on man.
be he ever go irreligious.
"Satan may vent his sharpest spite
and all his legions roar" was what
they sung at Beecher's oh urch on Sun.
day. Leave them alone for "gettinp
even" with fellow like Satan.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-03

We. ''the PnGNlx in particular, "out-
rageousIy abuses" him. IT that were
so. it would not help Mr.. Chamber
lain's Inconsistency and short coming.
But the Union- Herald, il it knows any.
thing, knows this not to be the fact.
Why don't it, if it can. instead OF this
paitry stuff, help it's man from the pre-
dicament we have placed him in, in
reference to the question Of proper
tional representation, in reference to
the spurious and shallow reform he
hints It IN the Times correspondence,
and In reference to his course while
Attorney General, member Of the Ad-
visory Board Of the Land Com
mission and member of the Sink.
ing Fund Com mission? Let it show
if it can, that his skirts are
clear. his record good, his fitness suoh
as cannot be challenged. That would
be more creditable than picking up
ecrsps Of slang and throwing thom
reoklessly about.
EaWe should be pleased ourselves to
and that Mr.. O. had always been
vigiIant to oppose wrong. had worked
in his party for the good Of the oouu.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
News and Other Items

Prince Edward Island, with a population of
less than 100000, sent $50 emigrants to the
United States in 1873
Among the immigrants arriving in this
country in 1873 were 4O3 clergymen, 3O7 teach
ers and 595 musicians.
One of Speaker Blaine's boys, when asked
what is it to swear? replied, ''Why, it is to say
God out of your prayers
The trotting stock belonging to Col. Amasa
Sprague is to be sold at auction in Prov
idence, commencing May 25
But few national banks were established west
OF the Alleghanies last year. Most of the new
ones were started at the East.
Andy johnson in his recent Nashville speech
discussed plan of eecting President and
Vice President of the United States directly by
the people.
A Western Justice of the Peace has had 100
of his 1876 decisions overruled by the higI er
court, and the reason the other five were miss
ed was because the parties died before they
could appeal.
The Illinois farmers, who met at Blooming
ton few days ago and called an independent
State Convention, represented 1916 farmers
clubs and claimed the control of 100000 votes
or one-half of the voting population of the
State.
Col. Dom Piatt has entered suit against
Mortimer D. Leggett, Commissioner of Patents
for an alleged libel recently published by him
in The GAINESVILLE Courier, charging Piatt as
editor of The Capital. with blackmailny.
Piatt claims damages in the sum OF $4,000.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
A Home Exhibition,

At the start, the projectors Of the Indus
trial Exhibition in June distinctly stated
that the show was to be ope of goods man
ufactured in the city or by parties living
in the city would and controlled manu-
factories outside its limits. We were conse-
seqdently, not little surprised and disap-
pointed when we noticed in the lists of en-
tries, many articles which could not be pro-
duced in this city or In the State The
stores of Portland are able to pour into City
Hall wealth of goods which would make a
most attractive fair and yet no industry of
the city need not be represented. We need
not say that such an exhibition would bring
little credit to the city, and none at all to the
hundreds of skilled workmen and workwom-
en- living and laborng within It's limits.
What the citizens of Portland desire in this
matter, is to exhibit for once, all that their
capital, enterprise and skill are doing. They
desire to collect in one building, a represen-
taton OF all the industries of thriving city
tnaI they may for once be able to appreciate
the extent and Importance of the surest sour
ces OF general prosperity. We are, therefore.
pieased 10 zee that the gentlemen having this
matter In Charge have determined to make
the exhibition exclusively one of Portland
manufactures as was first contemplated.
AS to the Exhibition itself there can be no
question of its success if those who asked for
space to show their handiwcrk will but re-
spond as they have indicated. There is every
indication that they will do so, and that the
Industrial Exhibition will be so great sue
cess as to astonish our own people. The
matter is in the hands of gentlemen who
know no such word as fail. We bespeak for
them the most prompt and earnest coopera-
ton.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Reported for the PREss.l

1.-THE following criticism upon John K.
the Boston Handel & Haydn Society at the
musical festival Saturday, comes to us from
source which entities it to attentive considera-
ton.
Comparing the performance OF Saturday
night With ours of last June, the following
points were noticed by Portland listeners:
First,-the orchestral parts were much better
given the second time than with u.s. The per-
formers had learned their music and evidently
expended less energy in scolding over the score
than they did when in Portla i'd Then the
chorus was large enough for the orchestra, and
was never overpowered by it as ours sometimes
was. Again, the forte passages were always
given with magnificent effect, with great vol
ume and steadiness of tone.
On the other hand, some defects were very
prominent No one of the four parts seemed
capable of taking up phrase surely, but each
would creep to its first note in timd sort Of
way. Again, the chorus made no attempt to
observe the directions of rallentdndo, diDaiau-
endo or marks of accent. In passage marked
piano the orchestra would soften down, but
anything like oar Portland Haydn Society
whispers was not heard from the chorus once
for the evening. Accents like the sforzando in
''He was crucitied," in No. 20, were made moth
ing of; indeed, to ooker-on it seemed as if
Mr. Zerrahn neither attempted nor expected
anything of the sort.
The semi-chorus of ''discples'' numbered
eighteen instead of twelve. They invariably
bair in cla
and in their singing did not show that calm
and lofty assurance that every note would be
right which our disciples attained after their
months of practice. The semi-chorus of women.
| who gave the angelic warning Remember
| from whence thou art fallen,' numbered TWEEN
| ty-eight instead of sixteen, as with us. They
| sang it with great expression, but fewer voices
| in the intervals of the chorus would have made
| a still finer effect.
| The chorus seemed the least successful in
No. 11,-"Sanctify them through thy truth, =
| where it was feeble and unsteady, in No. 33-
| "Men and Brethren"-where it was extremely
| tame, and III No s. where some OF the altos
started once with a wrong note and no part
seemed to be quite sure that everything was
| going right.
The chorus excelled in the loud, majestic
numbers like No. 1.-THE time is fulfilled,
No. 35-"This is the witness of God" No
2S-'The voice of the Lord and most of all
in No. 19-''Awake thou that sleepest." Here,
| with orchestra, organ and chorus uniting in the
long sustained harmony, the effect Was grand
and thrilling beyond all criticism.
| Of the two performances of this oratorio
| doubtless the second one, taken as a whole,
will be considered the more successful, but oul
| Haydn Society need have no fear of losing its
| laurels won last summer. They certainly sing
with more expression than the Boston society.
They are more in sympathy with their leader
more able to interpret and express his concep-
ton of the music they sing-and to Mr..
Kotzsehmar let the honor be.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

Gushing were called. He cannot be removed
to his home,
Fifteen persons united with the Congrega-
tional church on Sunday, Rev. MI. Woodbury.
officiating.
Fred Hall, formerly engaged in the dry goods
business in Skowhegan with w. H. Wlldes,
and late with Little & Co., of your city, is fit
ting. up store and will soon put in complete
stock.
George ii. Lori, highly respected grocer, is
said TO be soon to remove to Portland and en-
gage in business
w. Ill. Bigelow, U. S. General Mail Agent
is arranging for change of several mail routes
in order to have certain mails transmitted over
the Somerset Railroad.
Several changes in business firms are soon to
be announced in Skowhegan.
YORK COUNTY.
The Cor mon Council of the city of Bidde-
ford have decided against the claims of the
three Democrats to seats in that body from the
4th Ward. The case of the Sd " ard members
has not been reported upon.
A warrant has been issued for an election in
Ward A, Bddeford, to fill the vacancy in the
Board of Aldermen.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

How IT WAS REcEIvED.-The papers are
quite enthusiastic over John X. Paines ora
torio of St Peter, given in Boston Saturday,
The Saturday Gazette says:
1t is work which reflects credit upon its
composer. An American oratorio is novelty
indeed, and, il we ere not mistaken, Mr..
Paines work is only the second of its class that
has come from the pen of native musician
the Daniel of Mr. Geo. f. Brstow of New
York, being the other. Mr.. Paine has every
reason to be gratified at the hearty recognition
the merits of his work received at the hands of
the audience last night. At the conclusion of
several of the numbers the applause was quite
enthusiastic, and plaudits were frequent and
keeny appreciative. Mr.. Paine has, in his s'St
Peter" produced work of unusual power. 1t
is solidly written from beginning to end, and
in thoroughly musicianly spirit. He has never
resorted to meretricious means to produce his
effects, but has studied and followed the exam
pies OF the best and purest models musical art
can snow. That he has been an earnest and
enthusiastic student of Bach is made evident
on oihlost every page of his work, which is
flch IN Enc coutrapuntal effects 1t displays
IN tnr an eminent degree, Mr.. Panes perfect mas
orchestra 1t is imbued with a fine dramatic
feeilng, and we were unable to discover anv
place where he had sacrificed the spirit of the
words Tor the mere sake of effect. The work
all, manly In tone aud treatment
The Springfield Republican saws: To nass
without further comment from the Passion
music-the great distinction given to the Amer.
lean composer, John K Paine of Portland. bv
the production of his oratoro of s'St. Peter
Saturday night. was well deserved 1t is a
work OF true merit, and the only valuable one
of SO much dignity produced in this country.
Solidly written from first to last, with sin
eularly even and sustained style, and quite
pure and strict in form, it resembles Bach in a
very marked degree, and would tell US, if we
did not otherwise know it, that Mr.. Paine is an
earnest Bach scholar. There can hardly be
question but that Mr.. Paine's work will take
its place among the comparatively short list of
live oratorios, and be given by societies genera
tons hence, with increasing pleasure. His
choruses all manifest strong power of combi-
nation. and he uses the orchestra with a bold
ness and vigor which seem sometimes too pro-
nounced. But that impression may result
from the unchastened ardor of the performers
at critical points; and generally the instrument
fine relief.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY

ANDhooCOGGlN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says the Androscosein
river has risen several feet since Saturday The
Little Androscoggin is also on rise
The Journal learns that Dr. R. Bradford of
Auburn, is seriously i'll, and fears are entertain
ed thai he may MOREOVER.
There was quite a row in Auburn last Satnr-
day evening among soma drunken persons. and
police officer IN his attempt to quel it was Sc
verely injured.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
1t is reported that the Watervie Steamboat
Company have purchased the steamer Angus
ia to run between Wateryille and Auonsta in
cohhection with the Boston steamers The
company are arranging to clear the channel of
Ine river SO that steamboats, may run the entire
season without interruption.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Inc body of Mr.. Dickinson, one of the man
drowned in Wiscasset harbor last weeJ was
founa on sunday. Search is still being made
OXFORD COUNTY
A letter mailed in Boston April 9th d;rootod
France, returned ard was received hu H., al LIB
son 10 whom it was directed in Paris M.ina
last Monday. ''' uaine'
The Lewiston Journal says the front ,na O.,
mon Matching house at Dixtield under tha 80,
sonal supenntendence of Mr. CommiSs;ppuar
Stanley, is doing finely. He will have one H., n
dred Thousand young salmon ready to tnrn ;'tr
the river this spring, also about two tbnns ,iS1
!and-locked salmon, which he intends to nIaoo
in Rangely Lake. " pi'ce
PENoBsCoT COUNTY
One of the finest lots of salmon ever h-o,,e.,,.
to Bangor was caught at VeazIe Sundan n'ls,,
Jug. There were sixteen of the shining Eel feI-
lows, weighing in all something over three bnn-
dred pounds Two OF the largest had in their
fins silver tag placed there by the Buct sne
Breeding Works when they were caught ba f pua'
The Supreme Judicial Court has adioprnod
to Thursday next. Five hundred cases haua
been disposed of this term. nave
SOMERSET COUNTY.
(Skowhegan Correspondent
Samuel Jewett fell from staging Frdav
and was considerably injured. Drs, Snow and
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Crusade Notes.

The Worcester women are now preparing to
move upon the enemies works all along the
the lines.
Archbishop Purcell heads the pledgs of a
new total abstinence society in Cincinnati.
The Worcester and Middesex Temperance
Union hold. their annual meeting in Westbor-
ough on Thursday next
At Delaware, o., 800 900 have been raised as
a temperance fund, for conducting prosecu-
lions, etc.
All the saloons of Ann Harbor, Mich, have
closed. There was no crusade in the meaning
of the term elsewhere, bnt the law has been so
vigorously enforced that the owners declare
they cannot longer bear up against it. They
advertise their places for sale.
The towns of Wilton and Corinth, N. Y,
have refused licenses. The authorities of Sar-
atoga have exercised unusual stringency, and
have granted but five ale and beer licenses, re-
Jeetlng large number of applications.
The liquor men of New York city, who met
to the number of one thousand recently to con-
slider measures against the crusade, subscribed
80 each to 'defray expenses at Albany"
This gentle euphemism refers 20 ''seeing" leg
islators.
Details received by mail of the crusade
against whiskey, as inaugurated at Marches
ter, England, and Dundee, Scotland. show that
the same spirit is at work in those places as in
this ountry. In the former city the meetings
We're conducted by workngmen's wives, one of
whom introduced herself as ''the daughter of
the drunkenest Ia u z and an
other as 1.-THE wife Of the worst drunkarQl hat
ever walked the streets of Mauches ter sin
Dundee the work was done by women of the
middle class
The temperance movement is in full progress
in Rochester. N. Y. Two large temperance
mass meetings have been held, and an "ant
temperance meeting" under the auspices of the
saloonsts, has also been held. Gustave Rau,
one of the largest liquor dealers, has been sei-
fenced to the Penitenliary for thirty days, after
trial by jury, for violation of the Sunday law,
and the temperance people are greatly rejoced
at his conviction.
Licenses have been refused in the town of
Brockport N. Y. The President of the Board
of Excise made very affecting speech, in the
course of which he produced photograph of
his son. and said:
Look upon this picture. My only son, who
had grown to manhood, and upon whom L ex-
pected to lean for support in my declining
years. You have given him poison and killed
him. But forgive you; We knew not what We
did. Shall license you again to pursue this
dreadful traffic? Neverp'
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
'uch a mourner if in Maine.
Memorial Day.

Gen. Devens, Commandment chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, has issued the
folio wing order relative to Memorial Day:
In accordance with the Rules and Regula-
tions the Both day of May, next, will be OBJ
the Republic, and the customary honors will be
paid to the memory of our departed comrades,
by public services and by visiting and decorat
ing, SO far as we are able to do SO, the graves
where they lie.
In making arrangements for its observance,
Departments and Posts are recommended to
invite the cooperation of comrades not mem
bers of the Grand Army, of the clergy, and of
all who may feel interested in these memorial
services
1t is earnestly hoped that in those places
where there are no Posts, the day may not be
suffered to pass without suitable recognition,
but that friends and citizens will endeavor TO
see that the graves of those who sleep among
them are not left unvisted By this simple
act, We seem to establish communion be-
tween all who have loved our brave while liv-
ing and who honor them when dead, and we
join alike with the solemn professions which
move with banners and music from our crowd
ed cities, or with the little family, which on
some lonely farm, will, on that day, visit the
quiet spot where rest the remains Of him who
was once beloved brother or darling son.
Together we inculcate the lessons of that self
devotion by which alone nation can be saved
in so terrible crisis of its fate as that through
which our own was called to pass, and we bow
our heads in gratitude to the Almighty for His
signal favor in preserving our Government
from threatened destruction; and, together We
re-dedicate ourselves to all duties of patriotism
that are still upon us.
Nor would we seek to honor the memory of
those alone whose graves we are able to visit,
but through them to commemorate all that
have passed away, who, in the hour of trial,
did their duty faithfully Our noble dead are
scattered far and wide, but whether they lie on
the land or in the sea, let all be united in our
remembrance, wherever a single hand may
strew with flowers the last resting place of
faithful comrade
In promulgating the above ORDER Gen. Sell
den Cornor, Commander of the Department of
Maine feeliugly adds:
Let the day dedicated to the memory of our
fallen brothers-in arms be so honored as to
mark our undated regard for them, enforce
the ennobling lessons of the occasion, and ex-
cite the sentiments that tend to keep our coun-
try true to the faith and hope of those who
gave their lives 10 her.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
The Foremost Tonic Of the Age.

new path to health was provided tor the sick, a
shield against disease secured to the healthy,
when Hostetter's Stomach Bitters became the STAN
dard tonic of America. For nearly quarter of a
century this powerful and genial antdote to disease
and the causes which produce it, has been its
itary arch, building up the feeble, helping natur
to fight down every variety of ailment soothing PAIN
promoting digestion, regulating the secretioDs, in
creas ng the nervous vgor of the system. cheering
the spirits arresting premature decay and not only
proonging life, but adding value to it by putting
thousands OF nvalids in 1ditioI. to enjoy it. No
volume ever published would be large enough to cor
tain history of the of dyspepsia constipat on
bilousness, intermittent fever, nervous debility, and
mental and physical prOstration cured by this great
vegetable nvgorant which net only restores health
but protects it fro danger in the most unhealthy
district
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

Gov. WAsHBURN's FIGURING MILL AT
MINNEAPoLIs.--T Minnesota Farmers Union
gives the following description of the map,moth
honring mill, built by ex-Gov C. C. Washburn
of Wisconsin at Minneapolis, the motive power
OF which is furnished by the Mississippi river,
at st. Anthony Falls:
The Washburn Touring mill at MINNEAPOLIS.
IS one OF the wonders of this country No where
Ia the united States or Canadas is there any
thug to compare with it in size, while in the
entire world there is but one or two larger
1t was begun in May last and has been push.
ed forward to completion in less than wear by
an army Of Workmen, at u cost of $3.50, 600
The building is 100 by 1877 feet in size, built OF
blue limestone in courses, and is 81 stories in
height, or ninety feet from ground to roof
1t contains forty run of stone, driven by two
five-teet, polished bronze wheels, manufactured
in Chicopee, Mass, of go horse power each
which cost, with the excavation in which they
| are set, $685. 600. Some idea of the water power
in Minneapolis may be gained from the fact
that the water which drives them has head of
forty feet
The Stones are silicious quartz, and We're Sc
lected IN France by George II. Christian, the
superintendent of the mill, from the quarries
OF La ferte, near Paris, at which place the best
stones IN the world are found Mr., Christian
visited the leading millers of France and Italy
In search of all the latest improvements in
making hour, and purchased whatever of value
he could lind for the new mill at Minneapolis.
- vi course it grinds the ''patent -four Mr.
Christian was the first to introduce the method
IN this country. The machinery for it was
placed in she first mill built here by Mr.. Wash
burn, IN 1871, and has now come into general
use The new flour, as most of Oh readers
know, is made of the middlings. The wheat is
first ground coarse, and then goes through the
separator which removes the bran; then the
middlings, containing the gluten and other nu-
trltlous properties, are ground again, making a
most superior article of flour. To make the best
Hour it is necessary to grind the wheat very
slowly, and from four to five bushels an hour
on y are now run through,in place of from eight
to twelve as formerly.
The mill is owned by Gen. c.. C. Washburn
of Wisconsin, who has made investments in
Minneapolis in one way and another. to the
amount of 100000. He has spared no pains or
money to make it as nearly perfect as possible.
1t is heated by steam, lighted with gas, sup
Piled with water from the Holly pumps on
every floor, and admirably protected against
fire, the boilers being entirely outside the build
ing and bose in every room ready to be attach
ed to the water pipes il necessary
The flour manufactured here with the bran,
Will I'LL train of cars day.