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rot it off. When that is used up they must be
taught another, and the persons probably who
teach them and have the originality and real
ability could not succeed. Perhaps they have
no stage presence no sounding voice, no ora
torlcal delivery, and very likely too much mod
esty. OF course with irst-class lecturers their
stock in trade is what they have to say, with the
additional, but secondary, capital of an interest
ing way of presenting it. There can be no doubt
that the lecture business, as now conducted, is
going down hill, and what wonder:
Think of sitting in chair that George Wash
ington and Lafayette once sat in. That is what
any one may do who chances to visit family
here where such chair is preserved as valu-
able heirloom. / do not mean to say that La
fayette and Washington occupied the chair to-
gether, though they might have done so, for
any young and ardent couple would scorn more
room than the ample seat and broad high back
of this chair afford. This valuable relic is one
of set of six chairs that originally belonged to
the present owners great grandfather, gentle
man by the name of Prince, who lived in the
largest house in Newburyport in Revolutionary
times, and so was called upon to entertain all
the distinguished guests of the town. In this
way it came about that Washington and after
wards General Lafayette received the ho>pitai-
ties of the house. The lady who owns this
particular chair was one of six grandaughtcrs,
and each of them received a chair As I'm inherit
lancet very appropriate legacy. The chairs
were covered with blue and gold satin damask
The closing services were held in DIR. 10th
~. :,
the dissolution of the society. This was for
merly the old Brattle street church, but the
people became dissatisfied with the remote and
questionable location, consequently they sold
the Old church for about $50 900 and bought
new site at the South End, and put up IN elr-
giant stone etitice. When the church was dedi-
Gated it was discovered that the acoustic prop
critics We're so bad that the minister could not
be heard for three successive sentences. Then
a sounding board was put in over the pulpit,
but this made no material difference Wires
We're then run across from wall to wall, but
still there was no perceptible benefit. The To-
cation of the pulpit has been changed three
times, and yet the echo is as bad at ever.
! Through this and various causes the congreg ga
| ton has dwindled, and the debt of the society
| is now set at about 5000 DIR. I.othrop,
whose whole ministerial life has been passed
with this people, has gone abroad for two years,
| and the future of the society is far from clear.
Its probable that the church will be sold. The
trouble with the churches seems TO be that they
| have all centred at the South End, and now
| there are more than enough for the church 90
| ing people, ana they ito not offer any induce
mcnt for the unregenerate 10 come in There
| poor, now a-dayS. tiu->lr
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The Democrats Of Pennsylvania bling

The Democrats Of Pennsylvania bling
forward some very strong arguments in
favor Of their position against immediate
and forced resumption. The Pittsblrg
Post says that when the life of the nation
was in danger, the government issued its
paper promises to pay on long time, ten,
twenty and forty years, taking SO and 80
cents in gold for its bonds and greenbacI,s
Now every dollar Of these bonds that cost
SO and 80 cents is worth 12l 1-2 and 123
7-S cents on the dollar in gold. The green
backs alone are worth in gold less than
their face. The reason is because Can
gress has legslated in favor of the bonds
and against the greenbacks, The former
are held by the large capitalists-the lat
ter by the people. The bondholder's Con-
gress fixed day for forced resumption.
From the very day of the passage of the
act, gold has gone steadily up, and the
peoples money has lost in value as COM
pared with gold. the bondholder's money.
The people who are now fighting for their
lives-their homes, their families and their
all, against the monster of approaching
bankruptcy. All they ask is little time
and tair show-that their money shall
not be depreciated-so that they may be
able, through revival Of prosperity that
will come, it reasonable time and 4 fair
chance is granted, to meet their obliga-
tons without being reduced to bankrupt
cy. But no, say the Radical resumption
ists-'you shall have no time; on the 1st
day of January, 1879, you must pay in
gold regardless OF consequences We
care not what may be the condition Of
mercantile and commercial affairs : il
bankruptcy comes you will have to take
the consequences" 1t is for the people to
say whether they will endorse the Radical
policy by their votes, or whether they will
protect themselves.
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The Ohio Election.

We give in another column such returns
as nave come to hand from the Ohio cleo
ton of Tuesday, 1t is undoubtedly very
close, and will require the full returns to
decide the election between Allen and
Hayes. The state was SO close two years
ago, when the present Governor was
chosen, that it took a week to figure up
the result, and then Gov. Allen had only
800 majority. The late election was very
hotly contested by the administration, and
the appliances of speaking, organization
and money were used without stint. The
majority will be small either way, we
think, with the chances favoring the Re-
publicans
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The Fircmen's Contest. The Walk
ers Beaten.

PORTLAND, Oct. u. The engine trial
between Eureka No. of Hudson, Mass,
and +. r. Walker, No. | of Vinalhaven,
came off this forenoon at Presumpscot
Park, Each engine played through POO
feet OF hose. any size of nozzle, each en-
CINE to play Is minutes at a time for two
hours. Ex-Chief Engineer Darrell and
Capt. ID. A. Deering of Boston, were
judges for the Eurekas, and w. w. Castle
OF Belfast, and J. f. Emerson, of Bucks
port, Tor the Walkers. Chief Engineer
Merrill of the Portland Fire Department,
was referee. The result of the playing
was Eureka, 229 feet, and l l-2 inches;
+. Z. Walker, 22S feet and inches The
Hudson played through 204 feet and II
inches Of hose. They played four times.
First trial ZIG feet and IL inches; second,
219 feet and 2 IA inches; third. 229 feet
and l 10; fourth, not taken. The f. P.
Walker played first through 211 feet II
inches of hose and the other trials through
2O7 feet and IL inches. Their first play
was 1873 feet and 3 IA inches; second not
taken; third, 202 feet; fourth 22S feet and
3 inches. They played from tank sup
piled by steamer. The best Of feeling
prevailed, the defeated company being
satisfied with the fairness of the decision
About 1000 people were present.
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Temperance and Politics.

We publish to-day, as part of the cur
rent political history of the time, sketch
OF the prohibitory convention that assem-
bled in Boston last week, with extracts
from the speech on that occasion by Wen
dell Phillips. The republicans Of Massa-
chusetts, as in Maine, have generally con-
trived to harness the prohibitonists to
their party car, and incite them to aid in
Juggling it along, under the delusion that
they were helping their special cause
But the nomination of Rice, an open OPP
poser OF prohibition, and the ignoring of
the principle in the platform, have slim
ulated them to break away from the old
leadership, and the work in which there
was not even the penny's reward for the
laborers in the vineyard, late or early.
They have now put forward their own
candidate, and mean, as Phillips says, to
'stand and be counted.'
There are indications of general move
ment of the kind in all the states in which
the friends of prohibition are sufficiently
numerous. In New York state ticket is
in the field, headed by Geo. B. Dusinberre
for Secretary of State, as no Governor is
to be chosen In that state, as in Massa-
chusetts, the republicans gave the prohibi-
tory principle no recognition in their plat
form, but nominating prohibitionist
Rev. Mr.. Ives, for inspector Of state pris-
ons. The attempt to play between the
two interests in this matter, and to hold
both the license and anti-license men, is
bringing upon them the tate which politi
cal trimmers deserve. The paper which
is the organ of the anti-license men, at
once attacked the cheap patch work Of the
Republican Cony ention, with its state pris-
on sop to the prohibitionists, as "a tenn
perance handle to a rum party and Il
separate ticket followed.
The position of the Democratic party in
this matter is we'll understood. 1t con-
dennis what are called sumptuary laws in
cNcl lOllll III DclltN Us Ill lllc CAC1ClSC DN
every person Of the rights of individual
judgment and conscience in matters of
clothing, food and drink, within the bounds
of decency and sobriety. Temperance, as
a moral principle, receives its sanction, as
does every other sentiment looking to the
good of the individual and society. Dem
ocrats hold that the principle of prohibi-
ton involves dangerous stretch of the
right of individual restraint, that, under
the pretence of the good of the communi-
ty may become vastly more dangerous
than the evil it seeks to overcome. The
friends of the Maine liquor law well know
that they have nothing TO expect from the
Democratic party, in the way OF resolu-
tons in convention or legislation And
they also know that no attempt will be
made to deceive them, thar there vii be
no juggling resolutions in Conventions, or
deceptive nominations rs bait to catch Il ell
votes.
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= Roguery seems to be rampant

Roguery seems to be rampant in
Washington county. The grand jury has
found % indictments. among them Jesse
Ayers, a tramp, for assault with intent to
kill; John Daily, q tramp. three indict-
ments, one with intent to ravish, one to
kill, and one for burglary Andrew Petier,
assault with intent to ravish Chas w .
Dobbin, larceny OF sl4oo in money.
-Ex-Gov. Perham, having Just been
appointed Secretary of State, is to alb
sent himself from the office and take the
stump in New York for the Republicans.
Wouldn't it be just as well to have Stacy,
even with an occasional trip to Hallowell ?
England is preparing for war with
China-all the British ships in eastern wa
tiers having orders to proceed to that
coast
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have been waiting all that time to see the tenn
perance body counted | wish you would con-
sent to be counted once before die APP
plause. Ii my forty years of temperance
work gives me right to ask Temperance;
comrade anything, must ask him that he will
stand and be counted. Laughter and APP
plause. Some of my friends used to say they
would vote for me. Now, my friends, ask
YOU only, don't vote for Mr.. Rice. [Appause.l
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Our Schools,

A gentleman interested in the cause of
education, and who thinks that those most
interested in this locality, should take
more interest in the subject, hands us the
following for publication.
For the Journal
Success in any enterprise requires capital and
cooperation, and any firm, corporation or COM
pany cannot long have prosperous existence
without both of these They are the chief ele-
ments of progress and reform, and the advance
of civilization demands constant increase Of
both-a larger capital and closer bond OF
union The larger the capital and the greater
the number Of capitalists the more necessary
does it become for all to be united in attaining
the end for which the capital is invested. These
truths are automatic; and the principles, upon
which all business firms are founded and their
transactions based, eyinces clearly that they are
generally understood and practised. There can
be no exception to this law with any certainty
of success, but the idea seems to prevail that
the capital of the people can be used to adyall-
tage in single investment, that involves the
interest of the nation and, that III this invest
ment, no cooperation Is needed. We refer 70
the money expended for educational interests
and he who will consider the matter but for a
moment, will see that the only cooperation ex-
tant in this direction is among school-men, and
that the ideas advanced by thcse-most skilled
in educational work-are often opposed by the
masses, who are the stockholders in this noble
enterprise. There seems to be no good reason
why such state ofthings should exist and were
the people fully aware of the resolution which
their influence alone can effect, and the amount
Of good their sympathy would do the cause of
education, they would undoubtedly lend their
aid to educators without hesitation. Frequent
intercourse between parents and teachers can
not fail to make both more interested in the
great work of educating the future citizens and
rulers Of the United States
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= Hc announcement is maze Inat the
American minister at Madrid, acting I'M
der instructions from the United States
Government, has notified the Spanish Sec
rotary Of State. that if the Cuban rebellion
is not quelled by the first of January, the
belIgerent rights of the Cubans will be
recognized by the American Government.
The authority IS a Spanish newspaper
and its correctness is doubted.
= Ministers have been accused of a
great many things, from pilfering sermons
up to the offence of Beecher, and some
times the accusations have been sustained
But the funniest case is that Of Rev. John
f. Daniels, convicted Of breaking into a
store in Vermont, and stealing 800 worth
of goods. He calls himself q native of
Maine.
- Connecticut has Just voted to change
the day of her state election from April to
November-a very sensible thing. Maine
would also have voted for November cleo
tlOllS litttl lilC
they saw party advantage in keeping up
the old and foolish regulation The gen
eral opinion is, however, that last Scptem-
Der didn't provide much comfort for them
IT, The Ninalhaven boys, it seems, real
lied q defeat at the engine trial at Port
land But prize won by ten inches in Il
play of 229 feet is rather short hold on
victory. A slight accident might give the
advantage either way, and carry the award
with it,
We didn't mean to intimate last week
that the new Rockport Echo is not q cred
table paper in respect to its contents, but
that some of the mechanical rules OF the
craft were violated in the work 1t will
doubtless improve in that respect with age
and experience.
The treasury department is requiring
the revenue FLAG to be hoisted over all
custom houses in business hours, during
fair weather. Barnabas will be expected
to append a Goldfish to the flag while he is
attending to the grocery business at Stock
ton.
Postmaster Jewell has written to the
managers in Alabama, in answer to some
applications for office, that he must have
good men for responsible places, and that
he prefers good Democrats to bad Repub-
licans And that is the change the people
are demanding everywhere.
- The Boston Post says the Republicans
are speaking very low about administra-
ton abuses that ought to be corrected,
and calls it 1.-The whispering campaign"
The people, however, will speak right out
about the matter.
One Benjamin kimball, heretofore a
lawyer of Bangor has been stricken from
the rolls and forbidden to practice, on ac-
count of franlnl""+ a"tS, and general bud
character. lie has served term in state
prison for forgery.
- That voice ''of one crying in the will
dernessn near Waterville has subsidized. 1t
is supposed to have been radical wall
over the lost majority in Maine.
An interesting article on the growth
Of the Granger Association will be found
on the outside of to-day's paper.
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The PHILADELPHIA Centennial.

Philadelphia is preparing to take the lead in
the way of exhibitions or worlds fairs at the
Centennial next year A comparison of the
ground TO be covered by the buildings at PhilH-
delpha with that covered in other cities is in
teresting. Here il is so plain that all can I'M
dcrstand it
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There is sound sense in the conclusion
arrived at by the New York Sun after 8
careful review of the financial condition
Of the country. A few years of economy,
it thinks, will conquer all difficulties, and
then the country will take fresh start of
prosperity. "In the meantime" adds the
Sun, "there will be no imitation of the
currency, simply because it is impractica-
BILE. All the alarms upon that subject are
absurd, and are manufactured in the in
terest of Wall street spectators. Recov-
cry is to come through honest labor and
self-denial. The extravagant expenditures
OF the government can be largely reduc-
ed, and the whole machinery reorganized
with saving of forty or fifty millions
year. That reduction will afford great re-
lief, and the example VIII be wholesome
for economy in the states and cities and
counties and towns"
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: In suit before the IT 6. Giro

- In a suit before the u. S. Circuit
Court, at Portland, to decide whether the
Eutreskin Photograph Burnisher infring-
ed that of L. R. Weston, the decision was
adverse to the Weston Patent, and the
claim that Weston was not the original
inventor of the improvements was main
tanned
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Charles Dickens is dead but the prison.
er, Charles Langheimer, Whom he saw in
the Eastern pententiary at Philadelphia,
thirty-three years ago and over whose
punishment by solitary confinement he
lamented him in american
notes" as a picture of torlorn ai1llction and
distress Of mind"-still lives at the age of
seventy-tive, and has just gone back to his
old quarters for the sixth time for his
chronic oftense of petty theft, which has
kept him in Jail full halt his long life.
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James Burns of Stockbridge was an aston
ished boy when something came whizzng
fathers cider mill and more so when it turned
out to be q live "a pounds black bass. Land
lord Plumb cooked it, and lots of the village
people pronounced it very good. The theory
is that fish hawk captured the game in the
Stockbridge brook, three miles away. Spring
field Republican.
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A young Portland man recently found that
his wife was becoming too fond of another,
but upon demonstrating with her she left the
house and eloped with third man, a railroad
conductor, and the other day the deserted hus-
band and lover were seen shaking hands and
consoing with each other.
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Generalities.

(fa1if
'
canind Ia,G al olS sea- IN Bangor waters
i"''' '1N0i'eiiene'
1t cost the country over eight millions of dol
i'I9 ''9' year 70 support lhe Indians
The sum of 81. 100 has been raised 70 nay off
the debt of the Methodist Church in Rocklnnd,
AT tbc st. Louis fair this fall . herd If c,,po,.
reared in Texas will be amono Tie sfork ~
hibted
BOSTON has hod eleven nostmasto,s since 1-so
and all but Jonathan Hastings and aaron iii
are living.
reasons for sunnortina liz Ernublic5n tirIot in
New YorE ms WV ~ ~ ny III
ROckland will not supnOrt n coursr of lcct-
tired Of Ie pts WINTER Feope are Just mite
Cora, daughter of David Getchell of OlItown.
was burned to death saturday while playinu
N''' 1t ''''''i''
The dealers in leather propose to erect q
building Of their own, in which to exhibit their
wares at the Centennial
The Boston Post cites Il case of civil rights.
A Texas negresS has given birth to twin,8one
white and the other black.
.-,,. .,.
the abduction Of the Ross boy, has been ,enItnc-
ed to seven years in prison.
.4,,., .... >-.,......,.,,.
SeItPd hhhI'ltr -i'rN. N"thahicI w nan
clothes. Lewiston Gazette.
1t was eight tons of shining ,loubI, eaol-, in
Il single pile that brought bach CONFIDENCE .uJ
business activity in California.
CONSUMPTION. a disease formerly almost u,,-
known among them, has broken ont among line
negroes in some parts Of the Soutb.
ono 'i;urymeh are arranging for cheese iol
1nP fhI'adelphia chtGhhlal' which sha weigh
2'@OV poUhdN ana VIII probably cost over Sis
:, 0tlI,l.i ~ g lir',' ",eh-Ee'l'I' Arl4naH- A
ho ,,t Ms lpuhu HG'u III me 'AtN 81 thG M-
WV i''''''' as '''N "''' passing '"'""-"
Herring are reported a, plenty at Gfir.I
Manan within the past week or Two. >iNt.
ho@shead> Were taken from W. +. Alexander
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1 nceudiarism and Rioting in Tho
Mining Region.

POTTSvILLE, Oct. g. There were three
lncendlary fires, on three successive nights
this week, at collieres located in widely
separated sectionsot the coalregion, which
have aroused public apprehensons of the
existence of a new and dangerous course
OF action by the Molly Maguires. The
first was Tuesday night, when splendid
new breaker attached to Graeber 4 KEN
ble's coliery at Locust Gap was burned TO
the ground; loss 800 900 The second
on Wednesday night, was an attempt to
burn the Philadelphia ~ Reading compa-
ny breaker at the West Rrookside colliery.
The blacksmith and carpenter shops. oil
house and tan house, Were burned, but by
great eXertons the breaker was saved
lhe third fire occurred this morning at
the William Penn colliery, Shenandoah.
where the mill was destroyed loss $4,000,
IN All these instances the fires were start
ed where no fires had been used durino
lilc uiy' ID IS evident that the Molly Ma
CURES are ~arrylhSo on an organized scheme
of arson
PoTTavHLE, Oct. 10. There was con-
siderable shooting and breaches of the
peace at Shenandoah last night, and at
one time there were fears of a riotous dis
turbance. Two men were shot-one Rich
ard Finnell, slightly, and Jim Johns, Sc
riously and his throat cut In attempting
to make arrests the police were frequent
]y shot at though the shots did not take
effect One despatch states that over 100
shots were fired on the principal streets
at the officers. To-day. citizens generally
anticipated another outbreak. Tonight.
another deputy sheriff was compelled to
issue proclamation. At Mahoney City
there were a number OF incendary fires
Two dwelling houses and three stables
were burned to the ground. Three men
were arrested for melting the riot and in
cendiarism.
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THE CENTENNIAL. There have been Il
large number of applications for space at
the Centennial from parties in the State,
and the prospect now is that Names show
ing there will be very extensive. and cred
liable, also, to the State Mr.. Gilbert. act
ING on behalf of the Maine Board OF Ag-
riculture. will be able to show nearly all
the cereals and grasses of the State, and
perhaps something OF the woods. Appli-
cation for space for this display will go
forward this week. The slate and gran
tie ouarries will be we'll represented, and
the exhibition of mill products will be
very extensive, the Lewiston mills having
made application for about 1900 feet of
space. SO the work goes on. ARGUS
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ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS and GUARDIANS
desiring their advertisements published in the Jour
nal will please state to the Court.