The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-10
Current Notes,

Ladies for hotel clerks. That is the latest
and best idea. They wouldn't look poor,
tired traveller out of countenance; and if they
did there would be no great harm done. III
deed the traveller might retaliate and be COM
paratively happy.-Rochester Democrat.
The Rev. Mr.. Spsrgeon comes out boldly
IN defence of smoking He thinks good CT
gar is ga thing to thank God on" for he says,
"when have found intense pain relieved, a
weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing
sleep obtained by cigar, bave felt grateful
to God and have blessed His name.'
The venerable and eloquent Bishop Ames,
who has been holding the Minnesota, Metho-
dist conference, succeeded, on Saturday last
in chalking cold Fogy'' across his own broad
back. He ruled that woman was ineligible to
church stewardship. His mother ought to
take him across her knee Chicago Mail.
Tweedism reigns in Tammany Hall. The
small knot OF daring greedy men who hold
power are as resolute as was ever Tweed in
his glory. There is the same overmastering
discipline, the same bending of all wills to
one will, the same yearning for "bosom
friends" The inside ring parcels, out its
officers just as they were parceled out by
Tweed and Sweeny. Honest John Kelly and
Honest John Morrssey are as imperial in
their policy as their predecessors.-N
York Herald
The Rev. Mr.. Murray's first discourse in
Park street church after his return from his
vacation is likely to make something of stir
among the more conservative of the orthodox
people to whom he ministers. 1t was sort
of declaration of independence from the
creeds and traditions of the church, and
protest against some of the restrictions upon
free thought which have beeu deemed essen
tial. It shows that even in the bosom of the
church the workings of the spirit of progress
are felt, and that old ideas are undergoing
odifcation.-Boston Globe.
This is no time for Republicans to falter or
or fall by the wayside. There is no excuse
for deserving the Republican standard to-day
which did not exist in the darkest hours of
1S62-'63. The Republican party is to-day
what it was then, and the Democratic party
is the same to-day that it was previous to
and during the war. The issues which divid-
ed the two parties then divide them now.
The only change is in to location of the bat
tlefeld aad the character of the weapons
needed. Then the fight was upon Southern
soil with leaden bullets, now it is in every
Young preclQCC VIII Silent DuG most pOCenJ
ballots. The two parties are divided now
upon the same issues which divided them
then. The question of state rights-the
right of each state to regulate its own domes-
tic affairs, even to the extent of establishing
slavery-was then the great issue, and it is
substantially the issue to.day.-ToIedo Blade
The Hartford Courant has returns from
149 towns in Connecticut, of which sixty
have elected the straight Republican and fif-
ty-eight the straight Democratic ticket; while
in thirty one citizens tickets or part of the
candidates on each of the starlight party tick
cts have been elected. In no previous fall
election have so many towns chosen nom
partisan officers, showing that the last legis-
lature in deferring the plan of minority repre-
sentation was not up to the advancing senti-
ment of the state in that direction. In very
many towns, where only three selectmen are
elected, the division is such that with the
town clerk, belonging to one party or the
other, there is political tie, which will pre-
vent any display of partisanship under the
registration law as amended by the ''reform-
ers" in the legislature last summer. On
straight voting for town clerks sevepty-five
Republicans have been elected, sixty-five
Democrats, three each independents and
liberals, and in three towns there was no
choice.