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The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
Election Notes.

A dull campaign pieced out with two or
three weeks OF suspense is the worst infic-
tion of the Centennial.
The good people who borrowed trouble be-
cause the campaign opened so late and Ian
guidly are now in distress because it refuses
quietly and suddenly to come to an end.
1t is really painful to witness. the disap-
pearance of the word ''reform'' from Demo-
cratic newspapers.-W Wiltiamsport (Penn.)
Gazette.
The Democratic ward politicians of New
York have notified the tramps they domiciled
in the city for election purposes that their
services are no longer needed. The tramps
claim the right of domicile until the election
is decided.
The Democrats are going about with Ian
terms in every state from Maine to Texas
looking for that missing electoral vote. They
have now discovered it for about che twen-
tieth time in both Wisconsin and Illinois.
but the chances are they will be unable to
hold it.
Said Pat to Mike: 'Mike, did ye know
that Sammy j. Tilden has his eye on the
Presidential cheer?" eyes," said Mike to
Pat, 81 know that; but Pat mind ye, Sammy
j. Tilden bethur get his eye off the Presiden-
tial cheer before the 4th day of next March
or Gineral Hayes will be sittin' on it''-
Washington Republican.
Is vas General John M. Palmer, then
Governor of Illinois, who, at the time of the
Chicago fire, when the city was being plun'
dered and the people were unprotected
abused the federal government because Gen
eral Sheridan, at the request Of citizens, useC
soldiers in merely volunteer way, to aid il
preserving order and property. General Pal
| mer now tries ta) make row in Louisiana.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

we think it clear that the term of the
Presidency should be increased certainly TO
SIX years. 1t came near being so fixed in the
framing of the Constitution, and it would
nave been better if it had been. If the term
were thus heightened an additional provision
should make a President ineligible for re-
eiectlon, thus securing an important step
toward ClVil Service reform by removing the
temptation to use official patronage to that
end.-lndianapolis Journal.
A positive national good must necessarily
arse from the remarkable closeness of the
pending political fight. The disgraceful and
criminal system Of terrorism which has char
acterized the Democracy's desperate struggle
for supremacy in the South. will be exposed
tn the consideration of the intelligent and
laW-abiding people of the country who will
give their verdict in terms that will be un-
derstood and felt by the guilty Southern
mobocracy.
From the legislative returns in Louisiana
it seems to be fact that the late election has
indicated the action of the board in 1874,
Ior IN every instance where a Republican
member of the Legislature had been unseated
by the Wheeler compromise and Democrat
seated in his place the people had returned
Republican in the last election. This shows
That the claim set up by the Democrats was
1aise one, and furthermore that they had been
beaten fairly and were not entitled to the
seats about which such a terrible row was
kicked up.-Chic0go Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
STATE OF MAINE,
A Observation-Disclosures
By the Governor.


"A p r Q Q l. A MI A TION
In conformity to the proclamation of the Pres-
aent OF the United States, and by the advice of the
Executive Council, do hereby appoint
Thursday, the Thirtieth day of November.
Instant,
AS DAY ofPUBLIc THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE to
Almighty God, and recommend to the people of
TINS State the employment of the day thus set apart
IN oterlng the grateful Acknowledgements due to Him
lot the well being of country our State and our
nomes during the year that has passed, and in pre-
ferrng our petitions for the continuance of His low
ng Kindness towards us.
Inc custom Of our fathers endears to us the hold
ing OF family festivals upon that day as beautiful
ana appropriate feature of its observance If amid
the gadness of happy reunions of parents and chill
dren and children's children round common
hearthstone our gratitude for the good that we and
ours enjoy, shall extend our thoughts to the great
family which embraces us ALL shall awaken in our
hearts fresh sentiments of love and goodwill to-
wards our fellow-men, and strengthen our deter
mnaton to support the institutions and aid the in
huences which tend to benefit them, and to lessen
human wretchedness and suffering, then will the day
of our Thanksgiving be most blessed.
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta this third
DAY OF November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy and of the
independence of the United States of America the
one hundredth first. SELDEN CONNOR
By the Governor.
S. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
Women and Temperance.

To the Editor of the Press:
The following paragraph from the Newark
Register will show something of the impression
made upon that community by the convention
of the Woman's National Christian Temperance
Union, which was held there Oct. 25-28:
One of the most remarkakabe conventions
ever held in Newark, that of the Woman's
n National Temperance Union, will close its
meetings this morning in the Central Methodist
Episcopal church. For dignity, patience, per.
severance, elo Iuence in debate, knowledge OF
Parliamentary debate, and high and determined
purpose, it has never had its equal in this city.
Lady delegates of education and refinement
from the Middle Eastern, Western and South
ern States, backed by thousands OF earnest
workers among their sisters, have united to put
down the liquor traffic. In their deliberations
they have been perfectly fair, courteous aud
considerate, and have won tbe good will, esteem
and admiration even of those who differ from
them.
Our Union has twenty-three state auxiliaries
and over six hundred local auxiliaries. These
last have been greatly multiplied during the
last year. Fifteen state conventions have been
held, besides many district and county conven-
tons Through the efforts of cur committee
appointed for that purpose, an lnternatona
Temperance Convention of Women was held in
the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, (June
7th to 9th, inclusive) which was attended by
delegates from nearly all the states, also from
Canada, Great Britain and Japan, and from
which resulted an International Woman's Tenn
perance Union, the purpose of which is to bind
the hearts and hands of women in all lands in
earnest efforts for the overthrow of home
worst enemy
Our President, Mrs. Wittenmyer, addressed
a letter to the International Medical Convention
held in Philadelphia lately, and secured the
following from that learned aud representative
body:
"Dear Mdddn-I am instructed by the Sec
tiou on Medicine, International Medical Con-
gress of 1876. to transmit to you, as the acton
| of the Section, the following conclusions
| adopted by it with regard to the use of alcohol
| in medicine, the same being in reply to the
| communication sent by the Woman's National
| Christian Temperance Union;
| 81 Alcohol is not shown to have definite
| food value by any of the usual methods Of
| chemical analysis or physiological investiga
| ton.
''2. Its use as medicine is chiefly that of
cardiac stimulant, and often admits of substi
| tuition.
SO. As a medicine, it is not well fitted fo
| self-prescriptlon by the laity, and the medica
| profession is not accountable for such admins
| tratiop, or for the enormous evils arising there
| from.
"a. The purity of alcoholic liquors Is, II
general, not as we'll assured as that OF articiei
used for medicine should be. The yarlons mlx
lures, when used as medicine, should nayt
definite and known composition, anu snou''
not be interchanged promlscuousiy'
| ''Very respectfully,
| 1Your obedient servant,
| 81. EWING MEARs, NJ. D.,
Secretary of the Section on Medicine
| "ANNIE WITTENMYER,
"Pres. w. Nat. Chris. Temp Union, Phila.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

THE Returning Board of Louisiana is not
the outgrowth of the war as some believe.
1t was not born of rebellion, but of Democrats,
years before the war. The eyes of the whole
country were turned to it during the Know
Nothing excitement of 1854, as it is now in
the election of President. The Returning
Board existed then, as it does now, the child
of Democratic parents, enacted among the
old laws of the state of Louisiana.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

STANLEY MATTHEWS of Cincinnati, is a
man who commands and deserves the conf
dence of the country. He is not strong
partisan, but an independent, high-toned,
able and honorable gentleman. He has re-
turned home, after visit to New Orleans
and his statement is one of the most inteli-
gent and trustworthy accounts of the situa-
tion. Judge Matthews believes that Louis.
lana is honestly and fairly for Hayes, and his
judgment, based upon personal observation
on the ground, will carry great weight
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

In Pennsylvania the Republicans have a
majority of II in the Senate and 80 in the
House, making 81 on joint ballot Of the
Senators who hold over for four years and
will participate in the election of a United
States Senator to succeed Cameron, 25 are
Republicans and but four are Democrats.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

THE Argus has forsaken state rights alto
gether and now asks that the people of Yer
mont shall be controlled in their elections by
the laws of Maine. 1t doesn't see show the
pious Republicans of Vermont can get round"
decision of the Supreme Court of this state
on the matter OF counting votes for state Off
GERS. There is good deal of richness in the
argus paragraph.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

IT turns out that Duke Gwin was at the
bottom of the attempt to steal California.
The morning after election he telegraphed.
supposing that Oregon couldsbe "fxed''.
Wnen ne learned his mistake in regard to
that State he sent another dispatch saying:
"We must have California or we are beaten"
But California was not in the market, and
the "reforners'' from that moment became
inconsolable.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

IT seems that the Democratic kilograms
from Florida claiming Democratic victory
there, are due to the large confidence of Col.
Sellers, one Of the Democratic managers,
whose sanguine nature in matters of eye
water, politics, and appropriations. is known
to all theatre-goers.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

THE manner in which the Democratic rep
resentatives bubble and pettifog at every
step of the Returning Board in louisiana
shows how little real confidence they have in
their case.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
uiien, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
formal
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
Smith in Florida.

While the Democrats are loudly shouting
'fraud' in Louisiana in order to divert at
tention from other quarters they have been
quietly endeavoring to steal Florida. To
effect the theft returns have been held back
from some of the peninsular counties in
which the Democrats have control until the
canvass OF the other counties is completed
and the number of votes required to make up
Democratic majority is ascertained. The
game was very pretty one, but, unfortu-
nately for the rising hopes of the s'reformers,''
it was discovered, and discovery in matter
Of this kind means defeat. The Democratic
leaders took all imaginable precautions to
secure their object and showed great dis
cretion in the choice of means. The method
they took was TO send to Florida George B.
Smith OF Wisconsin, who as "counter-in''
OF candidates is unsurpassed in this or any
other age. There has never been in the his
tory OF popular governments so expert a
manipulation of votes as Smith. Tweed is a
novice in comparison, and the Placquemine
politicians look up to him with awe. Smith
is veteran in the business, having begun his
career as an amateur returning board twenty
years ago, when he elected Barstow governor
of Wisconsin. The method he pursued was
to return an immense Democratic majority
from the village of Bridge Creek, village
perhaps hundred qualified vot-,
ers. At the opening of the canvass in Wis
consln this year Smith was at once secured
by the Liberty Street Bureau, and it was the
firm reliance of the Democracy upon his un-
surpassed powers that led them to implicitly
hfsslieve that they should carry thestate. ana
They still live in hope that Smith may turn
up somewhere with ten thousand votes in
his hat. But there appears to have been a
mistake somewhere. Wisconsin went Re-
publican. Perhaps it is bad year for Smith.
AT any rate his luck seems to be no better in
Florida than in his native state, and now
that he has failed them the ''reformers" are
ready to give over the last doubtful state.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

ISN'T it about time for the Democrats to
make another claim to Oregon? 1t is as
many as to two days since anything has been
heard from that state.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 2s, '76

we 90 not read anonymous letters and communi-
cauons' The name and address of the writer are in
s cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as guaranty Of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

THE closer we get to the real facts in the
disputed states, the more clear is the falsity
of the manufactured Democratic reports.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

The result of the election in Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan has proved that the
Changers have had enough of Democracy,
and have almost in body returned to Re-
publcanism. Handsome promises and poor
performances on the part of Democratic ora
tors and politicians did the business.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

The elections of Congressman in the vari-
Gus states with the single exception of New
Hampshire, are held so long before their
term Of office begins, that some misapprehen-
sion has arisen as to who will be members of
the House which assemblies next December,
The members who were elected in 1874 hold
office until March 4, 1877. Consequently
from this state, for example, Messrs. Bur-
leigh, Flye elected to fill vacancy and Plais-
ed will be members of the House which meets
next December. Their successors, Messrs.
Reed, Lindsey and Powers will not take their
seats until December, 1877, more than a year
hence, unless special session shall be called.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

THE question of appropriate entertain
ments for Sunday evening is one that admits
of much variety of opinion and free discus
sion. The Sabbath was originally intended
as a day of benefcent rest and refreshing
after the six days devoted to the
work-a-day world. Our Puritan ancestors,
who served the Lord with fear, forbade
to Sunday everything that tended to grati-
fy the natural tastes or emotions. A moth
er might not kiss her child, and a walk
among the fields and woods or the reading of
a refined book upon secular subjects, were
against their stern rules. That no violent
reaction has taken place from this over
strict discipline is due to the native good
temper and sense of New England. Enough
too, of the traditions of our fathers remain to
us to make the opening of places of amuse-
ment upon Sunday repugnaat to the feelings
of most New Englanders, and whatever ex-
amples be Sc. us in foreign countries, what
ever arguments be brought forward as to
the refining influence of artistic amuse-
ments the general sentiment of right think
ing community is after all the best guide to
action. The series of Sunday evening concerts
including a performance of English Opera,
which is taking place at Music Hall, natur-
ally leads to thought upon the subject,
and to the conclusion that, for this me-
ridian at least the plan is not
desirable one, and will neither merit or OBJ
tain success. With the same artists, pro-
grammes equally good and much more appro-
| pirate to the day could easily be given. Let
an average be struck between the overture to
Martha and Old Hundred. The one is un-
suited to the day and the other to the occa-
| sion. The manager and performers of these
| concelts are sufficiently acquainted with mu-
| sic 10 recognize at once how wide, varied and
rich repertoire sacred music affords them.
The masses OF Haydn, Mozart and the early
| Italians; the chorales and cantatas of Bach;
| the oratoros of Handel offer unsurpassed
compositions. The modern writers supply
| beautiful melodies-among thousand exam
Piles may be named Faure's "The Palms" and
Gounod's "Christmas," Toplif's ''Consider
the Lilies" the save Maria" which Gounod
has founded upon the harmonies of Bach's
first Prelude in the well-tempered clarichord
Indeed the list might be indefinitely ex-
tended. If the management of this series Of
Sunday concerts defer to the rightly founded
prejudices that will always obtain in New
England, and to the dictates of good taste as
to the selections appropriate to the day, they
cannot fail to be rewarded by larger attend
ance at their entertainments, and by the sat-
isfaction of presenting fine class of compost
tiols to the attention of the musical public.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
Relief and Health to Your Infants.

We have put up and sold this article for years. and
CAN SAY IN CONFIDENCE AND TRUTH of it,
what we have never been able to say of any other
medicine-NEVER HAS IT FAILED, IN A SIN
GLE INSTANCE, TO EFFECT A CURE, when
timely used: Never did we know an instance of dis
all delighted with its operations, and speak in
terms of highest commentator of its magical effects
and medical virtues. We speak in this matter
'.WHAT WE DO KNOW" after years of experience
AND PLEDGE OUR REPUTATION FOR THE
FULFILMENT OF WHAT WE HERE DECLARE.
In almost every instance where the infant is suffer-
ing from pain and exhaustion, relief will be found
in fifteen or twenty minutes after the syrup is ad
ministered.
This valuable preparation has beeu used with
NEVER FAILING SUCCESS in
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
Horses Wintered.

HAVING surplus OF hay that wish consumed
LII on my farm, will winter horses for 81 80 a
week. Good bnl iings, hay of first quality, running
water in stable, sunny yard for exercise, horses well
cared for. Address,
c. ID. SMALL,
ocl3dZm* Cornish Me.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23

We believe it is the BEST AND sUREsT REMEDY IN
The W3kdD IN an enseS pI y n;sd AMD
from teethng, or from any other cause. We would
say to every mother who has child suffering from
any of the foregoing complaints DO NOT LET
YOUR PREJUDIoEs, NOR THE PREJUDIcEs OF
OTHERS, stand between your suffering child and the
reliet that will be SURE-yes, ABSOLUTELY
used. Full directions for using will accompany each
bottle.
Be sure and call for
s'MrS. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup"
Having the fac-simile of COURTS g. Perkins,
on the outside wrapper.
Sold by Druggists throughout the world.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-23
REFREsHMENT ROOM

which will be open from to 10 o'clock D. M of each
Gay. Meals will be served upon the European plan,
and the charges will be moderate. The arrange
ments will be such that all who desire can be
furnished with supper each day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-13
WILLIAM LAWSON,
STONE MASON AND PLASTERER
Redwood Falls, MINI.
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
What Minnesota Supports.

Perhaps it may not be known to all our
readers that Minnesota supports an agricul-
tural paper equal in size, reading matter
and neatness Of make up to any published
in the. older States of the Union. Not on
ly this. but it is larger. even. than some
leading States furnish. Missouri. which
has three times our population, publishes
Coleman's Rural World, which is eight
columnsi smaller: Wisconsin, in the
"Western Farmer" only has forty col
umn paper in place Of forty-eight in the
"Farmers' Union," published at Minneap-
oils; while Illinois furnishes in the stPrairie
Farmer" only the same amount of matter
as theU Mon. This being the case, wouldn't
it be we'll for our farmers to patronize home
industry little more and try their own
paper yearY Many are sending off to
New York and elsewhere for periodicals,
when. home agricultural news would be
more beneficial. We notice that the Union
has recently put on q new dress. and that
it still continues to furnish it's usual
amount Of interesting original matter from
the farmers each week. The publication
Of so large and we'll filed journal in Min-
nesota is credit to the State, and II ought
to be well supported by the farmers. We
will club il with. the GAsETTE for $500 1
year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-13

The Wabasha Herald contains arti-
cles Of incorporation Of the Minnesota
Midland Railway company. The in.
corporators are w. g. Andrews, George
N. Chase, and H. L. Terrell, Of Cleve.
land, O. /; l., P. Snider, of Jersey city,
N. j., and W. Il. Walton, Of Wabasha
who propose to build and operate a
railway from Wabasha, up the Zumbro
to Faribault, thence by way Of Manka
to and New Ulm to Big Stone lake,
with branches from the main line,
providing the people along the line
extend certain amount Of aid to the
enterprise. Mr.. Walton informs us
that the corporators have had large ex-
perience in railroad building and man
agement, are large manufacturers Of
steel and iron rails, and represent
capital to the amount Of several mil.
lions Of dollars. Mr.. Walton feels
confident that sufficient inducements
will be forthcoming to enable the
company to build to Faribault mex,
summer. The line runs through .
wonderfully fertile region which will
be greatly benefited by its construc-
tion.- Pioneer Press,
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