The Portland daily press., 1875-04-16
Current Notes.

The Columbia Union Herald says: I'VE
that South Carolina is to-day better state
to live in than before the war; that its me-
chanics are better paid, better fed, better
clothed than then; that its farmers are work.
ing with as good a profit, and that for those
who work there is prospect of reward as
certain here as in any state north or SOUTH"
In regard to the proposal to merge the
Catholic with the public schools, the New
York World says: "There is no way Of pre-
serving the school system except by keeping
common education absolutely secular; and
this implies to the advocates of ''the Bible
in the schools, as we'll as to the advocates of
schools" The same journal suggests that
it would be good thing for all the sects to
be content with supplementing such secular
instruction in their Sabbath schools, and
adds, "But on no account ought any positive
religious inculcation to be permitted in
schools supported by taxation"
The Tribune says, "We have seen what
progress has been already made in these di-
rections. The Spanish cause has not gained
in Cuba; it has rath z lost ground. The
finances of the Peninsula show no improve
ment. The Carlist ulcer in the North is as
sore and angry as ever. The new govern
ment, so far, has only shown energy iii one
thing. 1t is driving out of Spain the few
men OF honor and integrity whose personal
character was creditable to public life.
Minnesota seems to be hard country for
Democratic newspapers. A telegram an
nounees that the Pioneer and Press news
papers have been consolidated under the title
0f fhnG DoY1l D;n.a0oaa paooO n6
the Democrats without state organ. Re-
dictionary? Very!
Says the Toledo Blade: Last spring the
Democratic city ticket was elected by about
500 majority. This spring the figures are re-
versed and the Republicans show a majority
equal to about 500-making change OF 1000
votes in one year. That will answer.
Mr.. John c. New, the successor of Spin
ner, is going to take the Globes advice and
extract some of the talent from his signature.
If he had stuck to his original autograph
as fac SMILED in the Globe a week ago-we
should have been prepared to hear of him as
ten-million-dollar defaulter at any time, sim
ply because there is an exuberance of genius
about his big flourish, and superabundant
genius is very apt to take what it can lay its
hands on.-St. Louis Globe.
The public may dimly remember that
broken down corporation called the Northern
Pacific professed, some years ago, to have
discovered belt Of country from Lake Supe-
rior to the Pacific which was a sort of Garden
of Eden with all the modern improvements.
1t flowed with milk and honey. Life in it
was almost too pleasant. The only objection
to building railroad across it was that the
lnyuriaOt voOatatiOn niUht the
rails faster than hourly trains could cut it
down. 1t was well enough that stray buffa-
lOes were overtaken by sweet-pea vines and
fairly strangled to death. The fools not all
being dead yet, and great religious" news
paper having been bribed, the bonds of the
corporation were sold, subsidies were voted.
and a portion of the road was constructed.
On Monday train was passing along this
portion, when one of the balmy breezes that
blow softly over the rose-bushes and sugar.
cane of that tropical land lifted the rear car
off the track, tipped it over, and tumbled it
into forty foot ravine. Two persons were
fatally injured. Tribune.
'Invisible Green" is the name which the
Republican candidate for Governor of Con-
necticut bears since he disappeared under
that Democratic majority. Detroit Free
Press.
Whether the compromise will ever be final
ly consummated remains an open question,
and we candidly confess that we don't care.
AS the Great Commoner, Thaddeus Stevens,
put it, compromises are things of evil-inven-
lions of the adversary. In politics as in ply
siology, amputation is the only sure remedy
for cancer, and thus this Louisiana case
should have been treated. Mr.. Speaker Col
fax's cundurango plant was an imposition, and
Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Frye and Mr.. Marshall
are quacks. The scalpel, not sedative, ought
to have been employed in Louisiana long ago.
Philadelphia Times.