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The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25

THE Indiana Democrats out-greenback the
greenbackers. But what is to be expected of
a lEnatic asylum carried on under the forms of
State government?
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING. FEB. Is.

We do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25
State Temperance Alliance.

1t is thought by very many Of the most active
friends of Temperance that the could be great
ly advanced in this State, by more judicious con-
centraton of purpose and effort on the part of the
various Temperance organizations, the Church and
the public generally, by association in State
ganization, similar in plan and scope to that of the
Massachusetts, State Temperance Alliance" which
organization has existed in that State for upwards of
twenty-five years, and embraces in active member
ship, members of all the various Temperance organ
izatons well as the Clergy and Church of almost
every denomination; receiving and disbursing from
fourteen to eighteen thousand dollars every year;
thenticating and sending out Lecturers into every
portion of the States arranging for public meetings
and supplying speakers, and closely watching the
Temperance pulse, and providing means and meas
nres to keep it in healthy and vigorous state; care
ully scrutiDizng all legislation, and ready at all
sImes to sound the alarm when encroachm ents from
the enemy are attempted. With view to organiz-
ing similar Alliance in Maine, and auxiliary to the
to the National Temperance Alliance, the under
signed invite the friends of Temperance to meet at
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25
CONGRESS HALL, Portland,
on Wednesday, Feb. 9th, 1873, at 2l-2
O'Clock p. M,


To take such action as may then seem judicous.
In the evening, Temperance meeting will be held
IN the City Hall, which will be addressed by of
the leading Temperance men in the State.
1t is sincerely hoped that every Church and every
Temperance organization in Maine, will send one or
more delegates.
BENZ. KINGSBURY. Portland.
SIDNEY PERHAM, Paris.
NELSON DINGLEY. j b., Lewiston.
LOT M. MORRILL,. Portland.
w. W. THOMAS, Portland.
ANS0N P. MORRILL,. Readfeld
NEAL DOW, Portland.
III. M. HARLOW, NJ D., Augusta.
N. B. MUTT, Eastport.
II. A. SHOREY, Bridgton.
f. A. SMITH, Portland.
REV. W. F. EATON. Cape Elizabeth.
j. B. FILLEBROWN, Portland.
REV. d. B. RANDALL, Berwick.
L. r. SIMONTON. Camden.
K. A. SAWYER, Portland
HENRY TALLMAN, Bath.
GEO. o. PAYSON, Rockland.
HI. p. WHITE, Portland
GEO. e. BRACkETT, Belfast.
REV. BENZ. F. FREEMAN, Kttery.
w. R. JOHNSON, Portland.
F. G. RICH, Portland.
And many others.
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25

SOME of the English papers are greatly
shocked because Stanley found it necessary
in selfdefence to shoot the natives who were
seeking his death. and they want to know
you know if Mr. Stanley imagines that the
English people approve of opening Africa by
such means. OF course the English people
do; it's their way. England never yet
''opened" country without cheating and
plundering the natives and then killing them
if they complained. A nation that blows its
prisoners to pieces from the cannon's mouth
ought not to complain of the ACT of killing in
self-defence. 1t is quite possible too, strange
as it may seem to Englisnmen, that Stanley
was not opening up Africa for the exclusive
benefit of England.
FRANCE is opposed to the renewal of the
Latin Monetary Union. The Paris cores
pondent of The Economist states that the
convention has been found to be disadvant-
ageous to France, and especially with regard
to countries where specie payments are sus-
pended. Neither France, Belgium, ner
Switzerland coined any silver in 1877, but
Italy did to the full amount of her conting-
ent All this coin finds its way to France
and circulates at 10 per cent. more than its
real value. France has a right, by an article
of the convention, to return this coin to Italy
at its nominal value; but the bank notes that
would be received in exchange for it are not
convertible into gold and are as much deprec-
lated as the silver.
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25

The letter which is referred to is to which no
reference has been made heretofore ON this floor.
have obtained from the Executive Department
copy of it, which now hold in my hand. 1t is the
letter which, following closely upon the proceedings
have briefly and inadequately sketched, the Gov
ernor of Louisiana who had thus been given full
scope and sway in the State through the policy of the
Executive, wrote to the Commissioner 1t is as fol-
lows:
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-25

extenuaton anu excuse go 10r nothing; and the grim
fact that ye-thousand-dollar reward in Webber's
case failed to bring out witness against his MURDER
tells the terrible story of how safe it is yet in Lou
isiana to shoot republican and how dangerous 1t Is
for anybody to bring the fhct to light.
Is the democratic party of the United States 80 ca
ger for the punish of crime? Is it so tender
the public good. and xious that every crime shalt
be punished? Why, SIR, it lived for years. and drew
its breath upon the of all villanes." That par
ty dragged the country into the bood-red sea Of re-
bellion.
1t stalks deaantly to-day in all the So lthern States
over the bodies of murdered men, women, and chill
dren who have lost their lives for conscience sake
Mr. Atkius-That is not true in Tennessee.
Mr. Hale-Its adherents lurk to-day in the swamps
and ades and forests of the South, and from their
ambush
Mr.. Atkins-I desire tJ say
The Speaker-The gentleman from Maine [lIr
Hazel does not desire to be interrupted.
Mr.. Atkins-I say that is not true in my State.
The Speaker-The gentleman is not in order.
Mr. Ellis-I wonder it Eliza Pinkston is one of tho
women the gentleman from Maine refers to.
MIR. Hale-The adherents Of this party which is SO
eager that the law shall be upheld and its inffacton
punished urk to-day in the sSamps on the billsides,
and in the ravnes of the South, and from their am
bush shoot down the officers of the Government who
trying to collect our sorely-needed revenues
1t party virt1ous to-day that it rObs consti-
tuences of their representatives on this floor, and
casts decisive votes at the hands of who have
title to their seats than Dick Turpn had to the
booty which he puuderei on the kings highway.
But here a charge of utterng forged return for a
local parish, with ten ptation with no testimony
political offender must be haled to trial and To
punishment, obligations forgotten, conciation pol
icy all set back in order that the rage and spite Of
the democratic party shall be iudulged.
MIR. Davis, of North Carolina-wir the gentleman
allow me one minute? l desire only to repeat the
question asked
The Speaker-To whom does the gentlemen from
Maine yield?
Mr. Hale TO almost anybody.
Mr. Davis. of North Carolina-Well, then, 1 de-
sire to ask again the question which the gentleman
from Maine has answered by asking!some half adoz-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

what narrer escape you've had from the
gallus5 queried Biah, as he wiped of
the spoon ON his elbow.
81 do, and shall always love you"
"ons day longer and you might have
turned out q pirate. I tell you, boy, q
shingle Of the right size, laid on the right
spot, will put new and better thoughts
into boys mind, A. sure's you're born.
You can't mention single great man in
this country, from Peter Cooper to
Brother Gardner, who didn't get his regu-
lar dose of the Elixir when boy. You
can now sit with me down stairs and
learn lesson in history whIle dgsn my
socks"
When the mother ID, a
look of maternal anxiel ANTE
nance, Bijah was pushing needle
threaded with pink II 1aK an
eight-by- ten hole in + eeeqa x sky
blue sock, and the boy slCud:
sis the hen on her nest ben
is on her nest. La the sun ! Res the
sun is up, and no good boylpdIl laugh at
man who is blind.
The Elixir is success.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10
JoHN BURROUGHs on "cOws.n

The Fragrant Memories of Youth Spent
Upon n Dairy Farm.
From Farm Life in New York" in Scribnerl
Blessed is he whose youth vas passed
upon the farm, and if it was dairy farm
his memories will be all the more fragrant
The driving of the COWS to and from the
pasture, every day and every season for
yesrs-hoW much of summer and of ma
ture he got into him on these journeys
What rambles and excursions did this err
rand furnish the excuse forl The birds
and birds nests, the berries, the squirrels,
the woodchucks, the beech woods with
their treasures into which the COWS loved
so to wander and to browse, the fragrant
winter greens and hundred nameless adj
ventures all strung upon fhat brief jour-
ney of half mile TO and fsom the remote
pastures. Sometimes one cow or two will
be missing when the herd b brought home
at night; then to hunt them up is another
adventure. My grandfather went out
Ole night to look up an dbsentee from the
yard, when he heard something in the
brush and out stepped bear into the path
before him.
Every Sunday morning the COWS must
be sailed. The farm-boy takes pail with
three or four quarts Of cIarse salt and, fol-
lowed by the eager herd goes to the field
and deposits the salt il handfHls upon
smooth stones and rock and upon clean
places on the turf. If Jou want to know
how good salt is, see COW eat it. She
gives the true saline smack. How she
dwells upon it and gnsws the sward and
ticks the stones where 1t has been depos-
tied I! The COW is ths most delightful
feeder among animalG 1t makes ones
mouth water to see het eat pumpkins, and
to see her at q pile ofspples is distract
ing. How she sweeps off the delectable
grass The sound other grazing is appe-
tizing; the grass betrsys all its sweetness
and succuloncy in parting under her
sickle.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

Secretary Sherman has written letter
to gentleman in Michigan showing the
paper money circulation per capita of
this and the principal countries of the
world, from which tie following appears:
Population Per
Country CiFestltion Latest Estd Odpita.
France. ...s..... $780, OF, 600 80 COS 7sa Sl2 20
United Kingdom. 2l3, 600 33,474,OO0 80
Germany. l4aq5,Oo0 42,T27, 800 3 IS
URited 6tates.... 6s5l91,275 100000 Il IS
One OF the favorte arguments of the
people who think our financial system
out of joint is that he paper circulation
particularly of Graf Britain-is out of
all proportion to that here. They deal in
figures nobody ger saw before, and
prove 10 their satisfaction that while
there is about three cents to every one
of our population, the happy people Of
England-where trikes are unknown and
business depression unheard of-each
man, woman, and child walks about with
his pockets so stlffed with Bank of En-
gland notes that hes population presents
an uncouth appearance to the fastidious.
visitor. EnglishRomen, az rule, do not
in their dress m&e that finished appear
ance that an American or French belle
does. The reasd, il man could only in
vestigate the m4ter, would undoubtedly
be found in theIAct that they carry inn
mense bundles Il bank notes secreted
about them Blu seriously, the figures
that Mr.. sherma has compiledltell their
own story. The prove that paper cirCu~
Iation here ut To present time is greater
than in amy Of tie other greatr powers.-
Commercial Advftissr.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSE
AND
Agricultural and Mechanical Cole
BATON ROUGE, LA.
MILITARY ORGANIZATION.

Nineteenth Session begins OCTOBER
next, and ends JULY 9Th, 1870.
Tuition Free
Board, Lodging. Washing, Fuel, Light
Medical attendance, SIS a month or, sla
the session of nine months.
Text Books, Stationery. Uniform, Cloa
and other incidental expenses, about SOS fol
session.
Total expenses Of every kind, for the sessi
year, not exceeding $500 payable 90 at entra
and go at the close Of each Of the nine mo-
Of the session, making in all ten equal paym
Of $40 each throughout the session.
Cadets can enter and withdrew at any
during the session. cf
They will be charged 4 ly from the dAl
entrance, and for the time of attendance.
W The travelling expenses to and from
Of the better colleges in distant States are us
as much as the entire expense at this ms
ton for one year.
Military exercises obligatory on all stud
or Cadets. Cadets can board or lodge in
University Building, or with private famils
Baton Rouge, at about the same cost.
State Tor Beneficiary Cadets not received
I'll the Legislature makes an appropriation
their maintenance and support.
Religious distraction Catholic and
estant given IN the University and on San
Cadets viii be required to attend the chu
in Baton Rouge, designated by their par
Tho wishes Of parents in regard to the rsiiS
duties Of their sons win be carried ont vii
much certainty as attendance upon Liz
and Scientific classes.
For furthsr information. address,
July q, 1ST5 d. y. BoXD. Presida
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10
AZ House,

The highest syle of being ''at home"
grows ont Of % special state Of the afFec-
lions EatheE tina of the intellect. Who
has not met win individuals whose faces
would be passport to any society, and
whose mannerIthe unstudied and spon-
taneous expressions Of their inner selves,
make them Welcome wherever they 60,
and attract nbounded confidence to-
wards them iIwhatsTeE they undertake 2
They are fran, because they have nothing
to conceal; AAble, because their nature
ovsrfows VIII benevoisnce; unhurEied,
because they dread nothing; always At
home, beesus they carry within them.
selves that Wach can trust itself anywhere
and syerywhke purity Of soul with fall
ness Of hsAlA Such are our best guar
antees for fe&hg ct home in all soeissy 70
which duty tkea rs, and Ia every occu-
patton uponFhich q oblises as to enter.
They who Iis Least for themselves are
also The list embarrassed BY uncer-
tainties.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

The British Board of Trade returns for
September show continued decline in
the commerce of the United Kingdom,
greater than can be accounted for by any
decline in the prices that has taken place
within the last year. The falling off in
the value of exports during the first nine
months of the present year, when COM
pared with those of 1877. has been nearly
fifteen million dollars, and more than
thirty million Eve hundred thousand dol
lars since 1876. The decline in the value
of imports in year is even greater, being
forty-nine million dollars. The continued
depression of business in Greart Britain,
and the fear that the worst has not yet
been realized, cause great disOour-
agement to British merchants and manu-
faotures.
The financial bubble burst in Great
Britain two years later than in the United
States, and it now looks as though we are
ct least two years in advance of her in the
recovery. The daily Lat of failures in
London and Glasgow certainly is not a
very encouraging sign for the revival Of
business in Great Britain.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10
ag&iu 0xIeasts Republican.
nnWN STREAM.

] stood by the brOOklet flowing
Right merrily on to the sea
And out of the brOoklet flowing,
A young face smiled to me.
Again. when the stream had widened,
/ bent from the fow'ry shore;
The face that looked from the water
Was young, but it smiled no more.
j walked, and mighty river
Rolled silently on by my side:
And a face grown worn and weary
Looked out from the trimming tide.
And the river came to the ocean.
The stream it died in tho sea
nd the face went out with the current,
And never looked backward to me.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

A Glasgow newspaper has printed the
melancholy list Of the stockholders in the
city bank that recently failed. It takes
over six columns 10 contain the entire
list Many Of them are women, not few
cleEgymen, and large number Of school
teacher. Only those who owned ct least
$1,000 Of stock could the directors, and
the fswness Of such holders shows how
generally the shares were distributed
among the middle classes. Every SHARE
holder, even though be owned but one
share, IL responsible for the debts Of the
bank 70 the full amount Of his property.
This il Of course financial ruin TO large
number Of poor and worthy people.
This feature Of the case, says the Boston
Advertiser, "only illustrates onco more
the fact that those institutions which ths
EAntsrs Of ths day speak Of a. owned By
heavy capitalists are in reality chiefly The
dspodtoEies Of the money Of persons in
only moderate eircumstances An exam.
ination OF the hhAEs lists Of our national
banks, Of our manufacturing companies.
and Of Othsg similar corporations whcss
basinsas is done upon the aggregated
capital Of many persons, would tslI tbs
same story"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10


I vowed vow Of faith to thee
by the red rose Of June;
Vowed 1t by the rainbow,
And by the silver moon;
Tho red rose hath departed,
Fresh ones are blooming there,
The rainbow hath not left q tint
Upon the azure air;
And the crescent moon hath awelled
Into golden round,
And the sign of chance and change
On each and all are found.
Then say not have broken
Tho faith I vowed to thee;
Change was made for all on earth,
Was it not made for met
SELECTED.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

"Ws saw you and another man go
down with girl some minutes back,
replied one of these sailors. "They GER
tainly have not come up this way. Now
/ think of it, they can't have got round
any other way, because the tide is high
up over the rocks"
"why, you must be drunk, Bill, to talk
like that, cried the second sailor. "Don't
you know the gentleman was married to
to her to-dsy2" Then he turned to Old
worth: "Never mind him, sir. They've
only gone higher up. I'll be bound well
find them fast enough. What might the
mans name bsP"
Chow, in heavens name, should that
help your" returned Oldworth desperate
ly. "The mans name was Mark Shaw,
aud he was sailor"
Mark, Mark Why, that's our mate y
cried both men together. "Well, we'll
do all we can" And they went down to
the sea, and while Oldworth stood, feeling
that the horror which he suspected could
not really be, and wondering what he
should do next, the men returned bearing
something with them.
cts q woman's hat, sir, said the sec
ond sailor, the one who had reproved his
companion for what he deemed his incon-
siderate speech. "But don't you take on,
sir; more hats than one get blown away
this weather.
"Thank you. I know the hat, re-
turned Oldworth, with awful quiet in his
voice. Then he turned from them.
"Take my arm, won't you. sir?" said
the sailor who had last spoken. observing
that Oldworth seemed hardly able to con-
troll his steps. This sailor was known on
the Annie as "Jim the Pigeon-Hearted.'
"Thank you." rejoined Oldworth,
taking the mans hand. know you
ne we !, and shall not forget you
You're a sailor. Is there any boat, do
you think, that could follow and find
them Can they be all the way down
yet? Down al the very bottom of the
sea? Why, thought just now heard
her laugh. Don't you think she might
have run past us2 1 shall find her again
soma day. Not tonight, perhaps, but
some day"
He pressed his hand to his forehead as
if trying to collect his thoughts; then
cry which those who heard will never for
set, broke from his lips and rang through
the storm. High up it went far away
over the wind. The dead must have
heard it. Then he fell sensaless to the
ground. The sailors, good hearted men
both, bore Oldworth back on their
shoulders to the inn. Medical aid was
procured, but all that night he raved de-
liriously. Very early the next morning,
in the first low light, the bodies of man
and woman, clasped in one another's arms,
were washed ashore. Two sailors identi-
fed the mans body as that Of their first
mate, Mark Shaw, of the schooner Annie
William Grant, farmer in Kent, swore
to the womans's body as being that of his
daughter, who had been married only the
day before. The two had decent burial,
side by aide. OldwOrth lived, but reason
never returned to him. "He is trouble
some patient, and dangerous one, say
his keepers, whenever the wind is high
and westerly" .....
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

This fsom the Atbmeum. seams to
cover ths entire situation; ''Some persons
can think slqties, but can not write them;
SOME conld VIA them Il hey could only
ark shssa: very fsw can DO hosh. ard shel
essAs asssssssE eel e aiahez.s
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

Thoss vi are toad Of andiDg faalts
instead Of ling slways on the lookout
feE tAsms N,uld Do better % " 81 ne
ltokia, T5sI
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10
ODD BIJAH's ELIxER.
detroit Free Press. !

Detroit Free Press.l
A woman and boy slowly approached
the station.
They were mother and son.
The boy looked serious and the mother
was doing great deal of talking She
said she'd heard that they had opened a
museum at the station, and she asked
John Hen,y if he'd like to go in and see
the animals.
dispose they've got any snakes" he
asked.
"Lots Of EN-"
"And baboons?"
"More'n dozen"
"And stuffed bridegrooms
eyes, heaps of en-"
The boy had his suspicious, but curl
osity overcame them, and he finally con-
sented to go in. As he entered the parlor
the mother winked at Bilah over his head.
whispered the one word elixir" and
she was gone before John Henry could
realize the situation.
az am glad my to see you, my boy"
remarked Bijah, by way of breaking the
ice.
"Where's them baboons?" demanded
the boy, as he looked around.
"My son, the way of the trnnsgressor
is hard, no matter whether the spelling
book says 80 or not"
"Where's that stuffed bridegroom ?"
shouted the boy.
"He has gone out for walk in the
mellow sunlight, Johnny, but come up
stairs and I'll show you the Elixir"
"You can't fool me |"
"There is no fooling about this. On
the contrary, this very solemn occasion.
Come on"
The boy suspected the worst, and maxi
ing dive to get under the table he up
set it and came near getting out Of doors
He was finally secured and elevated to the
second story, the door locked, and as be
was placed in the big chair labeled ''Med-
itation," he had made up his mind TO die
in the last ditch.
"Ysur mother didn't have time to ex-
plain your conduct nor detail your his
tory" remarked Biiah in fatherly tone,
'but think she wants the Elixir applied
on general principles.
Murder" shouted the boy as he tried
to get out of the chair.
"I should like to sit here and study
your disposition" unused Bijah, ''but
time flies, and I'm a leetle bit anxious to
try this new spanker."
"Don't you dare !" shouted the boy as
he tried to get out of the chair.
"You observe, my son, that fasten
this sheet iron pad around my leg as
protection. If you feel like biting, bite
away. Then place the Elixir handy
bring you out of the chair, so, bend you
over in this shape, and now we are ready
for business. Let me remark at this
stage of the proceedings that my heart
aches for you."
"Maw NAV !" screamed John Henry.
"Your dear NAV is far, far away, my
son, and am now ready for business.
Here go"
He went. The sound of q shingle
striking boy was heard in the land. It
was also felt in the land, but from the
first stroke the boy shut his teeth to-
gether hard and refused to utter sound.
He had been there before, and he didn't
believe il was going to amount TO much
of shower.
with steady. even motion.