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THE recommendation of Mr.. Corthell, the
State Superintendent of Schools, that anoth-
er Normal school be established is worthy the
very careful attention of the Legislature.
There is evidently need of another school for
training teachers in this State. The western
section, comprising the counties of York,
Cumberland and Oxford, is at present unsup-
piled with the proper means for the training
Of its teachers. 1t is too heavy tax upon
them to require them to go to the East and
take the two years. course there required.
The new school upon the plan suggested by
Mr.. Corthell would exactly meet their re-
quirements. He recommends that it should
be on the line of railroad, of easy ac-
cess to all parts of the State, and that the
Legislature authorize the trustees to locate it
in some town that answers to these condi-
tions and has land and buildings suitable to
its needs. These conditions can be found in
Gorham, and in that pleasant village the new
school should be located. Its establishment
will require no additional taxation. The
land and buildings are to be given by the
town in which il is located, and the running
expenses are to be paid out of the general
school fund.
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

REPRESENTATIVE GLOVER holds out abun-
dant inducements tofalse witnesses in the bill
he introduces relative to Investigations. All
the scoundrels in the country may 60 to
Washington and tell whatever lies they please
concerning men in authority. and still not be
called to account for their own misdeeds, real
or alleged. They are not to be held RESPONSE
BILE to any court and are to be exempt from
arrest by any authority, save that OF the
House. A department clerk who has been
guilty of misdeeds may protect himself by in.
venting some slander against his superior off
GERS; for in that case he cannot be dismissed
under year or without full pay. The COM
mittees are empowered to impose secrecy on
the witnesses so that the accused may not
know the exact nature of the charges brought
against him. But though the witnesses are
to be sworn to secrecy the committees are not;
and, as last year, they will give out grossly ex-
aggerated or distorted accounts of the testi-
mony to the correspondents of Democratic
newspapers.
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

THE matter of State Board Of Health
comes up before the Legislature this week.
The sentiment in favor OF its establishment
seems stronger and more widespread than
ever before, and its advocates are in condi-
ton to present good case to our lawmakers.
It is not physicians alone that favor the Board ;
it commands the favor of the most enlighten ed
sentiment of the State. The bill introduced
is not Gin the interest of the doctors" though
our physicians are naturally interested in all
measures that contribute to the increase of
health and the lessening of disease. The ar
guments for the establishment of Board of
Health are unanswerable and no attempt has
ever been made to meet them. Such an es-
tablishment is demanded by all sanitary expe-
rience and by all the laws OF econo my. 1t
will effect great saving in health and wealth
both.
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News and OtI er Items.

Geo. B. Gordon, the inventor of the Gordon
printing press, is dead.
Horrible brutalities in the New Jersey state
prison at Trenton, are charged, aud will be In
vestigated.
The Worcester Spy denies authoritatively
that Senator Hoar is working for John d.
Washburn for the Boston Collectorship.
In relation to the alleged freight war among
the railroads, Commissioner Frink says he has
not heard from any of the Eastern roads. A
meeting of the trunk line managers will proba-
bly, be held in New York today.
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

FORD of Texas Is a fair specimen of the
men who are making SO much noise about
Mexican outrages on the Rio Grande. When
ever he feels like fighting he swaggers over
the border and gets into a dispute with the
Mexicans; then comes home, bringing doubt
less what Mexican property he can take with
him. tells stories of great outrages and wants
to raise a regiment to chastise the Greasers.
He does not seem however to have been so
indignant but that he could be subsidized by
the Mexican Government.
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

THE story told by the Graphic that the
President will sign the Bland bill with the
understanding that the interest on the public
debt shall be paid in gold during his adminis-
tration and that after him the credit of the
country may go to the devil, is not worthy a
moments belief Unless the President was
''fooling" when he wrote his annual message
he will veto the Bland bill.
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

THE Mormons are beginning to believe
that prophet is an expensive luxury. They
have discovered that Brigham Young took
out of the church Golfers S2,500, 900 in addi-
tionto his regular allowance. An investiga-
tion is asked for
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

THE porgy is stock subject for Maine Leg.
islation. This year he is more than usually
prominent-has indeed arrived at so high
distinction that he is fairly entitled to the
cyowning honor of having ''poems made upon
him." In this belief ballad of him is pre-
sented on our fourth page.
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Madame M. has had large experience in tell
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Do miss this opportunity of consulting the great
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SECRETARY SHERMAN has written letter
to Senator Morrill, in reference to the Mann
letter of 1868. He says in this latest letter
that the Government has technical right to
redeem the 5-20 bonds in greenbacks, but not
until the greenbacks are redeemab.e in gold.
The great mistake in our financial legislation,
he thinks, was the repeal of the provision
giving the holders of legal tenders the right
to convert them into interest-bearing securi-
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

OVER million of trade dollars has been
sent from San Francisco TO the East during
the present month. The profit is three per
cent. Ofcourse the money made out of the
laboring men by the Bland dollar would be
considerably more.
The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couptersigned 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 our
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The Portland daily press., 1878-01-29

STATISTICS prove that the consumption of
tobacco is steadily on the increase. The re-
duction of the tax upon it would therefore be
to the detriment of the Treasury.
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Scribner's Monthly,
MIDWTNTER NUMBER.

The MIDwINTER NUMBER OF ScRlBNER' s
MONTHLY, in the variety of its contents, and
the beauty of its illustrations, as we'll as
in its entire mechanical execution, surpasses
anything we have hitherto attempted.
In the series on American Sports. there is
'sMoosE-HUNTING," Illustrations by Sandman,
Ward and Kelley; "A CALIFORNIA MINING
CAMP, Illustrations and Text by MARY HAL
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and Stockton, besides Sketches, Essays, Re-
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His Baby "An Asylum for Literary Luna
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-10-11

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-10-11

The Jurors at the Paris Exposition agree
with the Judges at the Centennial, and de.
eide that it is the ''Wlllimantic"
1t appears from the Associated Press de-
spatches, and from the lists of awards pub
llshed III the Paris newspapers that the Jury
on cotton textiles, yarns and thread at tho
Universal Exposition, have singled ont the
Wlilimantic Company, of Hartford, Conn,
for special distinction. They have decreed
TO that Company a gold mdd and tie qr,ud
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on Seeing Mtchi,es" out of more than 80.
900 medals and awards. there were only lOt
grand prizes. and. although all the great
thread manufacturers of the world competed,
the Wllllmantic Company alone receives the
grand prize for Spool Cotton. This action
OF the Paris jury agrees with the opinion OF
the Judges ut our Centennial Exposition, who
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ceilence. But perhaps the most significant
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the sewing-machine manufacturers and oper-
ntors themselves. More than fifty of them,
after having used the Williamaniic thread
on their machines during the Plilad,l-
phia and Paris Expeditions, on NIL
kinds of work. have signed certificates
declaring that the Willimantic
Is the best thread they have ever
used on sewing machines, on account of its
strength, erenntss, elasticity, finish. and
beautiful shades of color. The concurrent
OPINION OF so many experts ought no longer
to leave any room for doubt MS 20 which
thread Is the best for sewing machines. 1t
Is not OF British or foreign manufacture,
but an American product, and made at the
Willimantic Mills.
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The Vote of the Third District.
ERROR IN THE OFFICIAL sTATEMENT-BAF
Lows MINORITY, ,26S.

ERROR IN THE OFFICIAL sTATEMENT-BAR-
Lows MINORITY, ,26S.
The official statemen. OF the vote for Con-
gresham in this District, as prepared in the
Office of the Secretary of State and telegraph
cd to this and other papers, last week made
Mr.. Barlow lack but PCS votes of an election.
As this was very different result from that
shown by the returns published IN this
paper, after the election and as our returns
(rcceived direct from the town elerks) have
commonly been found to be remarkably ac-
curate, we thought the matter OF conse-
quenee enough to compare our returns with
the official returns in the Secretary OF State :
office The result of this comparison has
been to disclose an error of one thousand in
the official footing of the vote for Water
man. The attention of the Secretary of
State having been called to this ty a repre-
sentative of this paper, we are able to an
nounce that the official record has been cor
rected and the official footIngs now stand
Grout G ,619. Barlow Q Il9, Waterman 512,
scattering l56-Birlow's minority, ,26S.
As showing the reliability of the FREE
Pres returns, we may add that our state
ment of the vote for Gen. Grout varied but
iwO votes from the official count. Our re-
turns gave Grout 6,6Sl the official count
is 6 SO Our returns gave Barlow DIG;
the official count is 9,1l9-a varia-
ton of hut three votes. The town
clerk of the town of Bloomfield
accidentally omitted entirely the Barlow
vote OF that town, IS in number. Other
clerks omitted scattering votes to the num-
Der of 81, reducing correspondingly our
totals; bat with these omissions, the sum
total of the variations of our returns from
the official tables is less than one hundred.
The final scanning up of the matter is that
the total vote Of the District on Congress
men, was 20 SOC, and that Mr.. Barlow Is in
a minority of l,26S.