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The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
Current Comment.

The friends of Col Daniel Hall of Dover,
n; a., think he has sure thing on ex Gov.
Walter Harriman,s place in the naval office
at Boston.
Fremont, O., President Hayes' home, ha.
Just elected Republican mayor by a major.
ity of 10, a Republican gain of 25O since the
last election.
Three Rivers, Mich, believes in Peter
Cooper's financial views, and the greenback-
ers there have carried the municipal election
by majority Of two to one over the Repub-
lcans and Democrats combined.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that Mr..
S. S. Cox has had some effect in his election
eering tour in the South, but it thinks the
contest for Speaker will be between Mr.. Ran
dali and Mr.. Sayler, of Ohio.
A more irreclamabe lot of idiots and asses
than the person who set up for managers of
| the old graveyard party in this CITY. this
state, and this nation, the planet we occnpy
does not contain.-Chicag0 Times.
Give Robson his due. The deficiency In
the appropriation for pay of the navy seems
plainly due to the unjustifable reduction of
the sum asked and evidently needed by the
democratic House, to kelp the economy ar
gument in the last campaign.
The Boston Transcript asks: "Would 1t
not have been more courteous If Wade Hamp-
| ton had put it in his Washington kilograms
that the Ex-Governor had withdrawn amica-
| bly,, rather than that Chamberlain surren-
ders ?" Yes, and wiser, too.
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina
will remove to New York in a few days. He
will be from May l, member of the new law
firm OF Chamberlain, Carter & Eaton, his part
ners being Walter S Carter and Sherburne B.
Eaton, both practicing law there. ~
The Brooklyn National Monitor throws
out some good suggestions to the colored peo-
pie, whose organ it is. 1t says: "Was there
ever race lifted up that did not lift itself nm
Ii we would succeed, we must rely upon our
selves in all important matters. Let the
help we ask and accept be only such as will
help US to help ourselves"
Senator Blaine expresses the sentiments of
ninety-nine out of every hundred Republicans
in the North in his declaration of sympathy
for the men Of the South, who have made
| such an heroic and uns uccessful struggle for
| civil liberty and constitutional government.
The great body of the people of North are
suppressiug their feelings and sacrificing
| principle to give the administration an op.
portunity to try the great southern panacea.
~. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
A "Scene" in the House Fifty Years Ago.

A large, fne.ooking man, of commanding
presence, is the Speaker, and arraigned before
him, in the custody of the sergeant at arms, Is
tall man of more than six feet and finely pro-
portioned; in the prime of life, with personal
advantages scarcely rivalled by any notable
man OF his day, dressed in faultless style, with
not the least OF defiance or swagger, yet with
perfect ease, self-possession and calm dignity.
the culprit stands at the bar of the House
awaiting the reprimand which the House has
decreed shall be administered to him by the
Speaker. The House is study; breathlsss ST.
lence reigns; the members are looking on in
eager interest; the bearing of the culprit makes
while that of the Speaker makes it difficult in
the extreme for some of the representatives to
restrain themselves from violating the decorum
OF the House by laughing outright; the Speaker
Is by far the most embarrassed man upon the
scene, suggesting the idea that he is the one TO
be punished rather than the one to administer
punishment: In hesitating, perturbed man
ner, he at length tells the culprit that the
House had ordered that he should be Iepri-
manded before its bar by its Speaker; and he
1.-The Speaker begs him 1.-THE culprit] to consid-
er himself reprimanded according to the said or
der; the culpnt bows in graceful and dignified,
almost lordly manner, an almost audible smile
spreads over the House, and the scene closes
The Speaker is Andrew Stevenson of Virginia
and the culprit is Sam Houston. A member
from Ohio named StsD6erry, we believe. had
accused Houston of defrauding the Govern
ment in transaction with an Indian tribe
upon the Tennessee border; the latter had de-
manded an investigation, but had been una
BILE to obtain any satisfaction. Smarting un-
der the charge and despairing of legal redress,
within the precincts of the capitol. OF course,
the House could not do otherwise than arraign
the camel, and a reprimand was the least penalty
1T could adjudge him.--Potter's Monthly.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
Magazine Notices.

9r per's Magazine for May with score of
articles and ninety-five illustrations, is out
opening with Mrs. Frances L. Mace's poem
Israfl, with eight illustrations by Fredericks.
A richly illustrated article on Florence is con-
tributed by o. NJ. Spenser, author of the article
recently published on Genoa. Writ Skies con-
tributes another illustrated article article about
Wales-selectingl this time the valley of the
Usk, and especially the site Of King Arthurs's 5
Round Table. Mrs. Mary Treat gives some
-resh observations concerning the familiar
birds Of the South. with striking illustrations.
An illustrated article by Ernest Ingersoll, en-
titled At the Gateway of the Catskills, is an
interesting sketch of region in the neighbor-
hood of the metropolis, out still retaining tbs
primitive customs OF the last century.
In An Old Gentleman's Recollections, Horace
Scudder gives some entertaining extracts from
the diary of Mr. Samuel Breck, relating 10 40
ciety in Boston and Philadelphia Just after the
Revolution, With illustrations from that cen-
tleman's sketches. A. 81. Guernsey has an IL
Illustrated paper on Cameron's Journey across
Africa. Charles Reade's A Woman Halter
aud Blackmore's Erema are contiuued. This
Number also contains three short stories.
Poems are contributed by j. W. De Forest,
Maurice Thompson, Kate Hillard and Nina
Lafargue.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

THE liquor dealers OF New York State find
themselves in a bad box very unexpecte dly,
and great dismay and excitement are the re.
suit. 1t seems that the Board of Excise has
exceeded its powers in granting licenses to
retail dealers other than the keepers of hotels
and taverns, and decision to this effect hav.
ing been rendered by the Court OF Appeals, a
fine has been imposed upon man who had
been selling under one of these worthless
licenses. The temperance people, discover.
ing their opportunity, are about to commence
general movement against the retailers who
have thus incurred the penalty of the law by
selling liquor without license.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
STATE OF MAINE,

By the ADVICE OF the Executive Council do here
by appoint
Thursday, the 26th of pril,
day Of Public Humiliation Fasting and Prayer,
and recommend to the people of the State, the
observance oft in manner beftting the designa-
ton BEARS and in the spirit with which the custom
that ordans it was instituted.
The season when nature begins her new year, and
gives visible promise recothing the earth with the
beauty of her verdure and preparing the fruits and
harvest of her constant bounty is most suggestive of
the renewal of hope aspiration, and endavor in
the minds and hearts of men.
Let us obey the impulse of the opening year, and,
bowing in humility before Him who rules alike the
fofces of Nature, and our human ways, form and
confirm every good purpose for the conduct of our
lives, and crave Gods blessing upon us, our State
and Country.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this
tenth day of April, In the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and of
the independence of the United States of America
the one hund1 edith and first
SELDEN CONNOR.
BY the Governor.
S. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

CINDERELLAs SLIPPER. Was it really q
glass slipper by means of which Cinderella tri-
umpbed over unnatural relatives and won the
hand of the prince? No; that is pathological
blunder. The story of Cinderella was tradi-
ton before it was put into prin. in the French
of Charles Perrault. In mediaval French the
phonetic equivalent of cerre tglass) was uaire
kind of variegated or spotted fur. The first
man who turned the spoken into the written
Uerre instead of Uaire, and hence for changing
the slipper OF the ancient story into the now
universally accepted glass-slipper. The gerre
is amanifest absurdlty; the rreIty Cinderella
could not have danced in it. The fur-slipper,
on the contrary, has abundant excuse for It's
appearance in the story for was not the wear
ing OF 'fur and other pelIetry" rgidly forbid
den by the sampturary laws to all but princes
and princesses?
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

THE Russian army on the Pruth numbers
100000 men. Forty miles in its rear is a
second line of 100000 men. The Turks have
already beyond the Danube 10000 men,
along its banks $4,000 more, and behind
Balkans 100000 militia. These vast forces
afford unusual facilities for slaughter.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

The Scientific Monthly does not entertain
high opinion of the blue-glass cure. In
reply to a correspondent who asks for its
opinion of Pleasanton and his discovery, it
says: "We think the man is a pestient
ignoramus and his book the ghastliest rub
bish that has been printed in a hundred
years." This is severe judgment, for Eli
Perkins, Tupper, and others akin to them,
are embraced by the century.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

In Boston, the Marseillaise, the song oi
liberty, has come to be called the "Beggar's
Hymn"-apparently because wandering min
strels sing it at the street corners. Indeed,
it was at first beggar's hymn, but as the
beggars numbered millions and had arms in
their hands, historians have agreed to call
them ''the people," Boston is like the
French Princess, and wonders why these
men will beg when wafies are sold about the
streets at nickel apiece.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

APPARENTLY the period of Information is
over for the Russian bear. He is yawning,
and trying his claws a little, and getting
ready for predatory excursion across the
Pfuth. He is dangerous animal when he
gets fully walked up.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

SATURDAY night was the twelfth anniver-
sary of the assassination of Lincoln. 1t saw
every Southern state but one in the possess
sion o! the old Confederate leaders. Who
says that the American people are not mag
unanimous.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

THE great spring epidemic is yellow fever,
Women seem to be most subject to it, and
the hue it takes is deep as the color of Man
DARN. 1t attacks the dress instead of the
skin.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

WATcHFUL Neutrality" is the name
England give to the position she has taken
in regard to the Eastern question. Other
nations call it shutflng indecision.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL l6.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all caes 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., 1877-04-16

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley L.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
ini1
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

ONE of the features of the year is the emf
grafton from this country to Australia. Over
thousand people have sailed for the great
island continent within the past two months.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

A DECISION of interest alike to insurers and
insured has been rendered by the Minnesota
Supreme Court in case involving the ques-
tion of the application of premium notes
toward the payment Of annual premiums on
life insurance policies. The Court in effect
held that the giving and accepting of notes
for the cash part of premiums has the same
effect as though the cash had been paid that
the giving and accepting of note for the
payment Of interest on prior note as well as
for the payment of the cash premium consti-
tuted the complete payment of the premium
for that year, and rendered the company lia-
BILE for the payment of the due proportion of
the policy. The decision means that when
life insurance company, having issued a ten
year non forfeitable policy, elects to take a
premium note in lieu of the cash premium
and the interest on prior note, the company
will be held to its agreement with the policy
holder, even though the latter should subse-
quently fail either to give new note or pay
interest or premium in cash.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
A "Texas Pacific Speaker

1t is noteworthy that all the pleasant as
surances which come from Southern papers
of Democratic antecedents about the Re-
publicans electing their Speaker at the
forthcoming session of Congress are coupled
with very significant hints about the Texas
Pacific subsidy. Now Republicans every
where would be exceedingly glad to see the
House organized by the election of Repub-
lcan Speaker, but if this is to be accom-
plshed by any coalition with the Texas Pa
cific Lobby, it would be utterly dishonorable
to the men concerned in it and utterly de-
structive to the Republican party, and we
take occasion to warn all rarties-personal
and political-connected with any such
scheme that it cannot prevail. And we give
word of timely advice to all Republicans
who are in the arrangement that they would
better step out of it very promptly. The
American people are in no mood to be trifled
with by any further subsidies that will re-
quire hundreds of millions of taxation from
the whole for the benefit of part-from the
many for The enrichment OF the few. A Re
publican Speaker on such terms would be too
heavy burden for the party and too expen-
sive luxury for the country. We don't
want Texas Pacific Speaker.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16

IT is asserted that the shop girls of Boston
comprise one-tenth of the entire population.
Great numbers Of them are now out Of
employment.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-16
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MISCELLANEOUS.
|OURSPRING STOCK

seIves and fine other branches OF our cOrnSin;
principal cities of New England, and we fee
the stock we offer this spring is far superior g
petitOrs. Oar buyers are men of ACtANOH Ll
i'm the selection of goods an our cutting de
best talent the country affords, and IN our
FIRST CLASS HELP yerIOQfKed Oy expe
whose business it is TO 8. ,at every garment
, 1877-08-01

was transported aerots the country from Fort
Lincoln, y. r. Accompanying Gen. Cutter's
ret,,n!ne we're the bodies of Col. Coax. Lieut..
Reilly, and Dr. l,cWolf. Tie latter hsiics
were taken charge Of by friends. anu were ecnt
10 itclr several destinations. Coi. f'ook's re-
mains we're sent 10 Hamilton, Canasln.
Lieut.. Reilly to Washington, AMI Or. 1>e Wolf
ia N.rwslk, u. The remainder Of the twclvc
hulles Of ol'icers arrived on The ! II. NJ. train.
Gen. Custcr's rtn,ains we're sent II, West Point.
where they will he Deposited IN the vaui until
thtoler, wllcn the funeral services will l,c held
All tltc buiice whtrh went East left nn tho 5:i5
train via the Michigan HDuthcrn R.,a.l. and those
which went to 1.caycnwnr.h departed At l0
o'clock.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
PtIntr HtHss--T. q. Soonhn. Ohm: H. q. nh-
v.e. Springfield; The lion .taseph tllt, Secretary
Of State Or stats Ut Ntsslesirri: E. C.'tabnul*tc
and i. u. sultan4ie. Scw t}rcans: 4. Levy, It.
sehis:., ae"te'a: tleetao i; Aehan, kentueky: 3
r., Harry. Cincinnati: +. T.; Potter. t.onts-
ville.... Grdnd TaesHc-Iohn Attn. rtotia: 4.
ktmbail, Davenport: s.. sanborn. Wlnona :
Cha.itr Callahan. cleveland; j.. X. I!tnett: An.
napolie. Md. &c. F. Waahhusn. Worecstcr. Mass. !;
j. II. Wnolworth. Ou,ahs: Juhn L. Ranney. tan
ada: william MILLER. III. Ontario: e. U. flnntfey.
Vaccination: rhitetus Sawyef. 0shkosh. h... tt0n-
fn<rctaf--The lion. ". ". ketchan,. WiIkcsfarfe
thu lIon. George t'recn. lava: l.. 8: st.oock. New
York; Z. l.. Mritner, oshkosh: Z, II. ifortoa.
BuBato: ]. VI. NcCab1ey, Oconto.
, 1877-08-01

Tho Dover tunnel project Is stated BY recent
foreign journals to have been definitely abat,-
lo1lc1 aud In Its etcnl scfontlic uic, arU agltat-
Ing 1rheme for tho britiging OF tbu Dover
Htra1tss Tie work oi boring lttely undertaken
l,as, II appears, verified the forcbolings VI those
wiiu bueved lsi the EXISTENCE VI nssurcs III thu
stratum of such character us to o1Ecr most
serlous obstacle to tho tunnel lnucrtaktng.
Tho brllao sc.,emo has bcen tully sct firth hy
II. Veflrd DO ut. Anne, n1l eminent FFcnGs cfi.
ginccr, anil IL thus described: N. ChcyaIicrfs
tunnel waa to have been dug at depth uf 4l0
teet below thu Channel. and was to have been
nbult thlrty-lour and half miles In length,
ing IRON Folkestone to Cape Grisncx, will bc
unly twenty-one miles. iscsi1cs, bctwecn tho
tw0 puluts l:c tho Varna asnl tho CAL
haEk, two hunks much dreaded by navl-
gaturs. formed ot very strong mud resisting cal
careuus ground, and covered by water ranging
from three to twelve icct In dcpth. In cu,,sc-
4uenco OF the aballowncss Of the water cover
posing 1t. tho Vnsne will furin the pivot Of tue
Undertaking. it, dfstansc froln Fu1hcstonc II
about rIsht Miles, AMI! shc lenth Of tho inter
vunng channel about twenty'-six fattotns lax
lay, therefore, the extent Ut bank at SIX miles,
tt,t distance tlcaco to Eapo Grlsnez ID ab0ut
eight and lIali MILES. In thIs distance ttcplh
OF water OF about Twenty-Five fathonls prevails
fur soti,e tnrcc n.:tca, t!iu remainder hayEng a
depth Ut about thirteen fathons, and tho ay-
crrgu depth throughout 6elug about sixteen
futh0tns. The cost oi tho tunnel was 10 lave
been 4:a), OK, ,U0O by tho aldo Ut tl!cso figures
tic demands Vt the 6r,l.e sehcnsa seem tnslE-
n,tieant, for E40,00 only Is tho sum set down
sclcntiGt works,-and tho tl1llu to be expended
thereon u estimated ut less tl,an yeaF,-whilc
the total cost for the wl,ole work Il calculated
tu lnll short ot LII, ,001, ,t0u.
, 1877-08-01

George Williams was ycsicrray held by jus
Tic Foulc In SOU tpnds 10 the Criminal Court
for stealing iaccs fro.n the Boston store.
\ J. c. Ctttel. fur obtaining gocis by forced
or,icrs frum II. T. Durtrec, commission mcr-
Chant on Market street. Several checks wcre
found upon his pcrson, anil Il IL thought that
varuus other charges uf similar nature can 10
found against him.
Minor arrests: Oven Hill, larceny from Will.
lam bedford; knte Joyce. assanlt!nR Wtnnclrctl
King; Patrick Sweeney, nssaultinI Helena An.
dcrson; barney Kelley. making threats to k!ll
frout 3. Mason, Ut M. u West Madison street;
i. Moorc, of ~ iii West Madison street.
Justice Morrison yesterday held the follow
inE: Michael liosa''. attempting, tn commit
rarc upon a l,ttlo 5.ycar.oll named Mary Flan-
l p.kles, ss assault, t. ssoo @ e e ,he Criminal cosrt:
John McI.afer,, larceny, fso1 to Che Criminal
Court. Justice, SumnerIIed held tho follow
Ing: l.. loldsteln. directory thief, i. A.. sher.
ba,ne ahl +. ". 8. brawtcy complai'lants, 500
to the CrlmInnl CDurt; Mary Davis, larceny
frutn Dan WAnzcr, SEQ ditto.
Detective Flynn has d fctlow named Charles
Station, who may turn OUT to Io the murderer
Of James j. Whe, tt,u victim u the Lawnt1alo
iIurror OF fuw days ago. Markham Keeps
q, restaurant on 1lalstel street, near
o,e"s' iessIon Of A "crooks u =. one who @ kesps
his own eounsc1s md dues his WORK single.
lat,dcl. In some occult way It was learnetl tlu.t
Markham was lu l.awndalc on this evening IN
qucstipn. mud closely answers Inc description Of
fore Justice Morrison today to give Miss Wt.ite
chancc to zee tho clap, whlrh opportunity will
bo afforded her ~ soon ~ shc rceoycrb.
, 1877-08-01

Springfield txdss.l RtpHhftean.
Nothing mos1 yiviuly Illustrates the sudden
greatness Of Italy tllan her nrctensiona 10 naval
powrr. 4 quarter Ut 4 century agu Italy Guild
not bo foutiu OIL the map. Now 1t Is reunited,
the 8lclies, Naples, L0nibardy, Venice, 81 last
Homo itsclf, everything but Corsica and nuor
Savoy, with which Napoleon Ill. ran OIL like
sllierin2 buy with bix arpte,-all clsc II united
to tue great ptulnsula TO MAXI olle nation.
The tlrtt itnpulac u nationality Is to rcassrrt
that Cointnuryial character whIeh her EcoErapl-
ical position Imposes uJ,oh tIcr and with which
her history IL 10 grandly associated. The great
maritime Republics VI tho Middle Ages, which
furnished '''lIc Merchant OF FenCeh u 9hak-
spearc's genius, aul by Columbus gavr a ucw
world to thu old one, naturally STIR the am6ltiou
OF ths reunited aud rehabtiitated Italian people.
The tonuaxe of the Kingdom slnce the era of
rvuatoh has rapidly Increased 1y free tradu lt
slltps, nn1 lhe Government 10 !aboriously devil.
opiuR navy which IL intended to hare ko,ne
voice In the dominance Of the Mediterranean.
England cannot have been blind to tue purpose
OF lAe lu(tton guns which hayu bceu forYcd In
her sllops to firet the Italian demand. Tarautu,
where tns fleet has lately been seut, may bu
called tia eye VI Italy toward tho Levaht, coM:
manling, a. It does, the Austrian Proytngt VI
Dalmatia, aero.s slie Auriattc. and Turkish
Albania, and being really point Of departure
tpr Egypt ur the HosphoEus, The danger OF .
collision Is not iuluent, but II tho interests q
kua4Ia aud England come u a pEcak, We shal
probably sec the italian hret put to tue seEtkt
| Of hussia In the Mediterranean.
, 1877-08-01

EpYF4fpuA1fAt4 4Sf6 1-ork World.
BERLIN, july ln-What Is likely to prove I
highly seantalous snd eutcit;alntng eaast setSrs
Il. has succeeded tn swlnuling-tRt IL, Sue i.
accused Ut having lono su-a goo4H number Of
officers In ths army an4 srious vi nobility iu q
noteworthy way. She annoancc4 through tho
public press thai she could bring marriages be-
tween such people aud wealthy lalles who
could btinR thesr husbands uuwricy uf from
y50,ND to s50o,0l0. llrr anuounresncnts, u
ufay treatillv ts believed, did not remain uu-
answered BY sous of the f3rst families and cas.
allers u rank mud position. TAs shrrwa Old
la.ly-sle IL old enough To bc = grand
n,otaer-Dsought about mectinps between
the money-aecking lovers and sotne pretty
womcu who would coLae to ta!;e tln Tu..eAti.
KaGa with her. whersupou thSoui ;cFs would
lEup iu aud b. lutro4ucel to them. the ancient
laly telling tue lovers. ta6 1o.a, wlHh QUE was
worth her tiuO0D u tlso,0oo, and wAlel, WA
tlp great 4jO,oN prixe. Naturally the EeHt!c-
u,su wished nj oucc to conlu to buslncss, uoF
WAN Niue. s, Z wilt Lchind tLem iu anxiety.
Ths would-be husbands gaye her niuucy in a.l-
vance to securr her serYllrs, uul also 1onis. u
evidences Of debt, contingent on ths suseess
Of her tuuuruytcs, but unsigned. To thrse
attcs shI forged tue uatncs vi the distinguished