The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-07-10
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BOwDIN COGLEGE.
Commencement Observation-Disclosures
by the President before the graduatin x
Class.
BRUNSWICK, July 9.-The exercises of com
mencement week opened to day with the Presi-
dents Bacealaureate. At four o'clock the
Seniors formed in front of the chapel, and
marched to seat, reserved for them in the Con-
gregational Church.
President Chamberlain took for his text the
9th verse of the 18th psalm, If forget thee
o Jerusalem let my right hand forget her
cunning" Psalm 1875. The speaker said:
The sentiment is loyalty. First. there is a
Jerusalem ;rthen there are hearts that love it.
Loyalty is something more than constancy. 1t
implies worthiness and authority in the object,
as well as fathfulness and firmnesss in the
follower. 1t needs both the true cause and the
true heart to bring the best power of the soul
into better purpose.
First, Loyalty refers to law; not to mere le-
gality, but to the vital and constructive power
of principle.
Second, True loyalty is intelligent. We
must thoroughly know the object Of it. The
rebellion was owing in great measure to msap-
prehension of the principles which were but
imperfectly expressed in the Constitution.
Third, The object must net only be known
but chosen; and this not merely with the will
but with the soul with that which is worthiest
and most prominent in US. 1t was not motive
nor will that made the difference between
Caesar and Cato or between Washington and
Arnold. 1t was disposition, character, which
determined choice. Objects must be chose
which accord with character.
Fourth, Loyalty must take hold of principle
and not rest in FORMS 1t does not change when
things change, nor when men change. 1t may
call US to let go measures when they no longer
serve the cause. 1t may make us disagree with
members of our own party sometimes. The
loudest are not always most loyal. Nor are
those who claim to be leaders always So Not
every one who says Lord, Lord" shall enter
into the kingdom but they that do his will.
Fifth, For all these reasons loyalty stands.
The true man partakes of the strength of the
cause ne serves. His work is immortal as truth
and right. Resistance assures him of what is
truly his own. 1t defines and Identifies him
and his.
Choose understandingly choose devotedly,
choose deeply. Truth shall save you whether
1T is in light or covered with cloud. The high
cause ennObles toll and sacrifice, and they that
lose their life for its sake shall find it again
unto life eternal.
The sermon was exceedingly interesting and
was listened to with marked attention
Annual Inspection of the Togus Asylum
AUGUSTA, July 9.-Chief Justice Waite,
Judge Bond, ex-Gov. Smythe, and Gen. Mar
tindale of the United States board of mana.
ayers arrived at the Togus Asylum yesterday on
the usual annual inspection.
ITO the Associated Press.l
MIR. Blaine Accepts the senaiorship.
Gov. Conner has notified the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, at Washington, by
telegraph, that he has appointed James G..
Blaine, Senator in Congress, and that Mr..
Blaine has placed in his hands his resignation
rs Representative from the 81 Congressional
District.
Mr.. Blaine's health shows no special change,
though possibly he has not been quite so we'll
for day or two past. The physician wishes to
10 have him removed to the sea shore as soon as
practicable. Mr.. Blaine rejects suggestions of
European tour.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-Postmasters appoint
ed-Renaldo Elder, Freedom, Waldo Co.
Alonzo M. Taylor, Hampden Centre, Penob-
scot Co.. Thurston Hunt, Herman Centre,
Penobscot Co.
The Third District.
DAMARIsCoTTA, July SIN the event of the
acceptance of the Senatoship by Mr.. Blaine,
the name of General James A. Hall of Damari-
scotia, one of Names bravest soldiers, will be
presented by the Republicans of Lincoln and
Knox counties
With the nomination of Mr.. Blaine for Con.
gress the right of Kennebec county to new
candidate will not be gracefully conceded.
Suicide in Biddeford.
BIDDEFoRD, July 8.-Samuel Leach, a car
penter, committed suicide in Greenwood
cemetery this forenoon. He went to the family
burying lot, hung his coat on the tombstone of
his wife, placed his hat and cane over his sons
grave and then hung himself to a tree in the
centre of the enclosure. Policemen found him
dead an hour after he was seen to pass down
the avenue past his lot.
Death Of a Veteran Shipbuilder.
BATH, July 8-Alexander Robinson aged
Uixty-nine; veteran ship-builSer, formerly of
the firm of Lemont & Robinson, a man univer-
sally respected. and who has filed important
city offices, died here this morning.
Drowned.
A son Of Amos Perry, of this city, aged
eight, He'll in the river near Goss & Sawyels
ship yard this afternoon, and was drowned.
The body was recovered.
Base Ball.
A match game of base ball took place here
this afternoon between the Dirigos of Roseland
She champion club of Knox county and
the Samosets of Wiscosset. Won by Samosets.
Score II to 4.
Nothing But Fraud.
BANGOR, July 9.-Frank Cowan who wa
arrested for supposed completely in horribly
beating j. w. Curtis who was accused of i'm
proper intimacy with his wife, was up in the
Police court yesterday and discharged. Major
Bolton, ex.city Marshall has been investigating
the case with physician and finds that Curtis
10 trying to deceive people. The physician
finds no.signs of serious injury and believes
Curtis to be in sound condition with the ex-
ception of trouble with his throat, which injury
he is believed to have inflicted upon him
self. When the physician examined him
he attempted to appear delirious, but did not
fally succeed. The doctor misled him and
thereby found out that the alleged severe inter-
nal injuries did not exist. The morning of the
day on which he arrived at his sisters house in
Searsport, he was as far as could be known,
in perfectly sound health, with no bruises
whatever and making no complaint. He gave
several fictitious names to persons whom he
met and contradicted himself in various ways
After arriving at his sisters he ate hearty
dinner, and since then has appeared delirious
and wild. AS far as could be learned he was
never carried to bog and tied, but has been
feigning the whole trouble. Evidence was in
troduced into the Court to show that he had
inflicted injuries upon himself at various times
before while pretending to be in trance 1t
looks now as if the whole affair was complete