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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24
BY the President Of the United States
Of America:
PROCLAMATION.

In accordance with practice at once wise and
beautiful we have been accustomed as the year is
drawing to close to devote an occasion to the hum
the ceaseess and distinguished benefits bestowed
upon us as nation. and for His mereies and pro,
lection during the closing year. Amid the rich and
forget the sources from whence they are derived,
and the extent Of obligations to the Father of IL
Mercies. We have full reason to renew our thanks
to Almighty God for favors bestowed upon during
the past year. By His continuing mercy civil and
religious liberty have been maintained; peace has
reigned within our borders, labor and enterprise
have produced their merited rewards, and to His
watchful providence we are indebted to security
from pestilence and other national calamity. Apart
from national blessings, each individual among us
has occasion to thankfully recall and devoutly recog
nize the avors and protection which he has enjoyed
Now, therefore, i, Ulysses s. Grant, President OF
the United States, do recommend that on THURSDAY,
the 25th day of November, the people of the United
States abstaining from all secular pursuits and from
their accustomed avocations do assemble in their re-
spective places of worship and in such form as may
seem most appropriate in their own hearts offer to
Almighty God their Acknowledgements and thanks
for all His mercies and their humble prayers for
continuance of His divine favor.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
Done at the City of Washington, this 9th day of
October, in the year of our Lord 1875, and of the
independence Of the Uuited States the one hun
dredth.
(SigneD U. S. GRANT,
By the President,
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24
Furnishing q House.

newly-married young couple, just about
taking and furnishing house, anticipate a
great deal of pleasure in the choice and selec.
ton of their furniture, carpets, paper-hang-
ings, Sc. Both being persons of good taste,
they never for one moment imagine that any
thing but the most complete success will crown
their choice; but it very often happens that
the carpet which looked very handsome in the
shop is of much too large pattern for small
room, and the paper which seemed very bright
when exposed to view in the rear room. lighted
from the top Of the paper-haLger's store, has q
dark, not to say dingy appearance when
placed upon the walls. So with the furniture
coverings. So with almost every article of fur
nture. 1t requires person with a very ex-
perienced eye to imagine the difference between
the look of things in shop and their appear
ance when put in house.
1t has become the fashion lately to adopt un.
covered oak hoors and they are very nice in
sitting-rooms if they are kept thoroughly pol
ished; and if there are several handsome mats
and rugs about there need be no regular carpet
put down in summer. A carpet in winter is
warmer and more snug, but margin might be
left all round the edges of the room of polished
oak.
dining-room is very handsome papered
with dark crimson green flock, with rep
curtains to match, with Grecian border in red
or green and gold silk. A Turkey carpet is al
ways incest but any carpet of rich dark hues
and quiet pattern is suitable The prettiest
wallpapers for drawing rooms are those with
very pale gray or buff grounds. with gold stars
or .feur de lys on them. For bedroom papeis
none can be prettier than French gray or neu-
tral-tinted grounds, with elegant trails or sprays
of flowers and groups of many-colored birds all
over them. Curtains of cretonne to match
look best, though some prefer contrast Car
pets for bedrooms should always be of small
pattern, and there should never be lack of
comfortable easy chairs and sofas.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

IT is declared in the Daily Telegraph, the
great peoples penny paper of London, that
a crisis is coming on in the iron trade of Eng
land which will cause general stoppage Of
mining operations; that one great company
in the North has closed all contracts and dis
missed all hands; that one-half of the pud-
ding works in the northern counties of Eng
land have stopped or given notice, and that
the remainder are working without profits.
As certain result, this reacts on the coal
owners, in consequence of the diminished
demand for and consumption of their prod
uct, and there is a general threat Of a reduc-
ton of so per cent. in miners wages, which
the men will almost certainly resist by gen.
eral strike. At this season of the year, and
with the prospects of long and severe
winter-which, according to English expert
ence, always follows flooded autumn-this
is most unpromising prospect. The decay
of any one great trade causes serious injury
to many others.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24
The Paternity of the Rag Isaby.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
says:
If your readers will turn to page 1894, fourth
volume of Maccaulay's History of England
they will see that the original rag baby had an
earlier origin than many may have supposed.
Writing OF the year 1884, reign of William
and Mary, Lord Mccaulay says: "Pre.eminent-
ly conspicuous among the political moante-
banks whose busy faces were seen every day in
the lobby of the house of commons, were John
Briscoe and Hugh Chamberlayne, two projec-
tors worthy to have been members of that acad-
emy which Gulliver found at Lagado. These
men affirmed that the one cure for every dis.
temperiof the state was land bank.
"a land bank would work for England mira
cles such as had never been wrought for Israel,
miracles exceeding the heaps of quails and the
daily shower of maDna. There would be no
taxes; and yet the exchequer would be full to
oyerf1Owing. There would be no poor rates, for
there would be no poor The income of every
land owner would be doubled. The profits OF ev-
cry merchant would be increased. In short,
the island, to use Briscoe's words, would be the
paradise of the world. The only losers would
be the moneyed men, those worst enemies of
the nation, who had done more injury to the
gentry and yeomanry than an invading army
from France would have had the heart to do.
'"fhese blessed effects the Land Bank was to
produce simply by issuing enormous quantities
of notes on landed security. The doctrine of
the projectors was that every person who had
real property ougnC 10 nave, besides that prop
erty, paper money to the full value of that
property. Thus, if his estate was worth two
thousand pounds, he ought have his estate and
two thousand pounds In paper money Both
Briscoe and Chamberlayne treated with the
greatest contempt the notion that there could
be an over issue of paper so long as there was
for every ten pound note piece Of land in the
country worth ten pounds. Nobody, they said,
would accuse goldsmith of overissuing as
long as his vaults contained guineas and crowns
to the full value Of all the notes which bore
hit signature.
Indeed, no goldsmith had in his vaults gui-
meas and crowns to the full value of all his
paper And was not square mile OF rich land
in Taunton Dean at least as well entitled to be
called wealth as a bag of gold or silver? The
projectors could not deny that many people had
q preiudice in favor of the precious metals.
and that, therefore, if .he land bank were
bound to cash its notes, it would very soon stop
payment. This difficulty they got'over by pro-
posing that the notes should be inconyertible.
and that everybody should be forced to take
them"
The great historian then adds: 1.-THE specula-
tions of Chamberlayne on the subject of the
currency may possibly find admirers even in
our own time"
fad Macaulay written in 1876 he would have
left out possibly" and aided, "Alas! how
many admirers of these absurd specuations
are found in our own time"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

WEATHER MAxDIs.-"Old Probabilities" has
formulated the results of his observations for
New England as follows:
1. AS rule, if the wind touches northeast
or east for two or three days, it is sure indi.
cation Of rain.
1. Dense smoke and hazs in early morning
portend falling weather.
3 Summer showers of light character often
follow two or three days of smoke or haze.
t. Fog, frost, and dew, precede rain "A to 4S
hours, except fog at close of storm.
O. Wind veering from north or west TO south
and southeast precedes falling weather.
q. Halos, lunar and solar, also fairly de-
fined and brilliant auroras, precede rain a to
60 hours.
7. Barometer rising or falling. considerably
away from its mean forebodes falling weather,
subject to modifying influences of the neigh
boring ranges of mountains and hills.
3. Precipitation generally follows a rapid
influx or efflux OF atmosphere.
O. If wind is in southwest and rain sets in,
the rain is of short duration and light yield.
10. Banks of watery cloud or heavy haze on
south or southeastern horizon indicate rain.
81. An area of low barometer at or near
Fort Monroe, and running up the coast, surely
reaches here as a northeaster
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

In the negotiations now proceeding for the
settlement o. the troubles in the Turkish
provinces, the programme put forward by
Austria includes a comparatively high degree
of self-government for the Christian comnu-
mites in Turkey. Russia seems to demand
only more faithful adhesion to the promises
of reform already made by the Porte.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24
OUR THANKSGIVING.
BY the Governor of the State of Maine
A PROCLAMATION.

In accordance with revered custom, and in con-
formity with the recommendation of the President
the United States, do hereby with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, appoint THURS
DAY, the 25th of November, instant, a day OF
Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God for the
mercies and blessings of another year.
And earnestly request all the people of this
State to abstain from their usual secular employ
ments, and appropriately observe day hallowed by
so precious memories, and set apart for SO exalted
purpose. Let all the people give thanks in the sane
tuary rejoice and not withhold praise in their homes
and by cheerful deeds of hospitality and charity,
commemorate the loving kindness which the Heaven
ly Father has shown them in all the relations of life
Given at the Council Chamber, this first day Of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and venty-fve, and of the inde-
pendence Of the United States of America the
one hundredth.
NELSON DINGLEY, JR.
BY the Governor
SIDNEY PERHAM, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

The Sanitary Inspector of Glasgow has
found that the yellow toy balloons sold to
children are poisonous. He says that the
coloring matter consists of one part chromate
of lead and three parts of carbonate of lime
Children, being in the habit of applying their
mouths to the orifce of these balloons for the
purpose of filing them with air, may readily
receive quantity of such poisonous powder
into their mouths,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

THE appointment of Hon. VIM. G. Mar
shall to the important position of Collector
Of Customs at Belfast is one of the best ever
made in Maine. Mr.. Marshall is well known
in the state as gentleman of cultivation, in
tegrity and ability. He represents the sound
business element, and his selection is an indi-
cation that the public sentiment in favor of
first class men for places of public trust is
likely to be gratified in Maine. We con-
gratulate Mr.. Hale en- his fortunate selection ;
as we presume this appointment has been
made on his recommendation,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

tramps are enough TO excite the liveliest
apprehensions, and the Columbus conven-
ton will be awaited with general interest in
the hope that something practical may be
suggested from the experience Of the entire
state to meet this serious and increasing evil
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

THE National Hotel at; Lawrence, Kan.,
which was destroyed by fire last week, served
as Quantrelps headquarters during the fa-
nous raid. He set guard around it for IFS
protection, on account of the kind treatment
he had once received at the hands of its then
proprietor, Mr.. Stone, though some of his
men afterwards killed the old man before
they left town.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

The Cook Excursion Company of England,
have made arrangements on colossal scale for
English people alone They have chartered
seven steamers to bring the excursonists to
America, aud have made arrangements to
leave them a certain time at the Centennial,
after which they will divide into two routes,
one to proceed through the country to San
Francisco and the other to New Orleans.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

THIS much must be said in regard to the
removals from office made by Secretary
Chandler: If halt the reports of the misman-
agement of the Interior Department under
Delano were well founded, there ought to be
good reasons for pretty general reorganiza-
tion of its subordinate departments.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

HERE it comes: The Augusta, (Ga.) Con-
stitutionalist warns the Democrats in Con-
gress that unless they plan measures accept
able to the South they need not count on the
President in 1876.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

The tramp nuisance is so greatly on the
increase in Ohio, and has become so formid-
able that state convention has been called
to meet at Columbus on the eighth of next
month to devise some means of relief. The
farmers and those who live in small isolated
villages and hamlets are particularly inter-
ested in this move. The crimes which for
the last six months have been traced directly
to wandering vagabonds calling themselves
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

THE Tribune admits that the Republicans
have improved both the prospects and the
merits OF their party within the past year,
and that the Democrats have managed to re-
vive all the old distrust in their party. "In
this state of things" says the Tribune, ''it is
clear that the Republicans can win the next
Presidential election if they will only con-
tinue to deserve it, The people who have
given them one victory after another and
have kept tho party in power for fourteen
years will be only too glad to find themselves
justified in sustaining it again.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV. "a. 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersgned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
ionrnal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

The Bid1eford Times has been mised by
the Bangor Commercial. The Commercial
quoted Senator Bayard's argument against
the national banks, but dismissed bis manly
plea for hard money with the statement that
che does not fully endorse the Ohio gleen-
back doctrine" This statement the Times
copies. Senator Bayard does not endorse the
Ohio greenback doctrine at all. He is not
an idiot. He condemns that doctrine in the
strongest terms, and his letter is written as a
protest against is. He explicitly warns the
South OF the danger of the doctrine, and sets
forth The fimsiness of the arguments for it.
The statement of the Commercial is disin-
genuous to say the least.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

THE Committee appointed by the New Or
leans indignation meeting to demand the resig
nation Of the Pinchback School Board, which
established the mixed schools, have resigned.
In published card, in which they recon-
NIT the whole matter to the people,
the members of the Committee state as
their reason for resigning that the State Su.
perintendent of Schools invited them to ap-
pear before the State Board and produce the
evidence in support of the charges by them
made against members of the New Orleans
Board. TIE be asked to prove what they had
charged was all too much for the indignant
members of the Indignation Committee, and
they incontinently resigned.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

AND now the unhorsed Democracy are try.
ing to remount the third-term hobby, which
carried them so well last year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24

in Maine, regardless the base as
sertiOns of others to the contrary.
Others have bought early and paid
high prices, but we have waited
until late and are able to sell
OVERCOATS from $1.OO to $500
less than can be bought i'm Port
land. We have 10 styles of ELY.
SLAMS from the cheapest to best
imported article. Also Blue,
Brown and Black Beavers, Chin.
chillas, WOrsted Kerseys, and
others. Our ULSTERS beat the
world.
All prudent LABORERS and
MECHANICS buy their CLOTH
ing of us.
Come in WORKINGMEN, and it
will do you good to see the long
row of little tin pals of a Satur-
day eve, and set yours down, too.
You only need to come once to find
out who your BenefactOr is.
LADIES Bring in your BOYS
and we will flt them to a first class
suit. If you cannot come send
them in, and if the goods and
prices are not satisfactory they
may be returned.
Buy your FURNISHING GOODS
of us. All kinds of SHIRTS and
DRAWERS CHEAP.
Buy all of your CLOTHING,
equal to custom made, at the
CHEAPEST and LARGEST RE-
TAIL STORE in Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1875-07-21
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The distillery of FL. I. Jasper, in Covington,
KY, was burned yesterday morning, together
with about 400 barrels of whiskey and 1000
bushels of matt. Loss $50, 900; insurance $685.
O00
One of the Ridon patent life RATS left New
York, yesterday, under command of Captain
Dunn, to be present at the ocean regatta off the
Isles of Shoals.
Several tenements owned by Thomas
o. Rourke in Old Bergen, N. j., were burned
early yesterday morning. The inmates escaped
from the windows in their night clothee. The
women burned out attacked O'Rourke, charg-
ing him with firing the building, but the police
saved him.
David Alden, a special policeman of Man
chester, N. H. discovered number of tramps
robbing the dinner pals of the workmen, at
the Valley cemetery yesterday morning, and
trying to drive them away was assaulted by
threw of them with knives. Alden then drew
his revolver and shot one of them in the Shout
der The others escaped.
Miss Ella Robinson, aged seventeen, an op-
erative in the Amoskeag mill, Manchester,
committed suicide yesterday morning at her
home on Amherst street by taking corrosive
sublimate. She was girl of good habits, and
melancholy caused by i'll health, and heredi-
tary faint, are supposed to be the causes. Her
father, William Robinson, hung himself here
about seven years ago.
Thirteen miners, with four wagons, were
ooptuiCu lOI W uNC uiico uOItu VI OluG Lara
mie en- route for the Black Hills, last Friday,
and brought into the fort on parole.
A fire last night in the opener room of the
Shore mil in Fall River caused damage from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has de-
cided that the local option feature of the lceLse
law is constitutional.
boarding house in Newport, N. H., belong
ing to A. p. Welcome, was burned yesterday.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Father Gerdeman, the Catholic priest recent
ly tried in Philadelphia for embezzement,
came near being mobbed last night in the up
per section of the city.
Henry Zaizer. Baltimore butcher, while
laboring from temporary insanity last night.
shot and mortally wounded Louis Eggner, an
other butcher, and then killed himself
A fire at Mechanicsburg, O., yesterday, de.
stroyed eight frame buildings. Loss $4,000;
insurance $1400
A special to the n. Y. Telegram says it is
rumored that vacancy will soon be made in
the commission for the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia for the benefit of Gen. Long
street.
Lawrence Ellsworth, aged II, riding on top
of Car last evening, on picnic train from Sill
yer Lake for Boston, was struck by bridge
and instantly killed.
Patrick Kehoe, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing his wife in jersey,
was yesterday sentenced 20 years in the state
prison.
Elizabeth Bennett, beaten by her husband,
William, Sunday night in Brooklyn, died
Monday. The murderer was arrested,
The Portland daily press., 1875-07-21
WASHINGTON.
District Attorney Fishers Case,

District Attorney Fishers Case.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-It appears that
judges Wylie and Macarthur of the District
Supreme Court made strong appeals to the
Presidents in slf of Judge Fishers reten-
ton as District Attorney, and the President
asked the Attorney General to take no further
steps for his removal. 1t Is not generally be-
lieved that he will be permanently retained.
The Crops.
The July returns of the Department of Ag
rculture show that the acreage iu corn is about
8 per cent greater than last year. New Eng
land has reduced her acreage about II per cent
and the Pacific States about per. cent All
the great corn growing regions have increased
their acreage; the Middle States per cent,
the Southern Atlantic States per cent. the
inland Southern States IL per cent, States
north of the Ohio per cent, the States west
of the crop IS below the average in New Eng.
land, the Middle and South Atlantic States.
The minimum condition is 80, being in Rhode
Island. Florida and Alabama are also below
the average, but the oJher Gulf States and in
land Southern States are above the maximum,
liz, being in Massachusetts, All the other
States, except Missouri, 103, are below the
average, the minimum condition, 80, being in
Wisconsin.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances of
to-day So, 094, 3S200; special deposit
deposit $751; 500, OO0 coin, $685. 665, 819, including
coin certificates, $23, 437, 100; outstanding legal
tenders, 1875, I'll $50.
Various Matters.
The United States steamer Powhattan. at
New York. has been oIdered to cruise east as
far as Portland for the benefit of the health of
her crew.
The United States steamer Lancaster has
been ordered out of commission at Portsmouth,
N. III. AS soon as Che health auth )rities will
allow the crew to go ashore they will be paid
off and discharged.