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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
Magazine Notices.

The December Wide Awake opens with
lovely Winter Picture of .Dove-ifs, as accom-.
paniment to Harriet NICE wen Kimbslps poem,
The Doves. Tbs Cap, by Erskins NJ. Ham
ilton. is a good story for boys. A very Interest,"
ing little paper, Some Pet Lions and their Mis-
tress, is an account Of two lions actually owned
BY lady in Boston. Aunt Dolly's School
Room Story relates how still another bad boy
was vapquished by tact and sweetness instead
OF the rod. The last of The Child Toilers of
Boston Streets gives an account of the Tele-
graph Messenger Boys. The serials Doc and
her Knights and Trying to be True, are ended,
satisfactorily to everybody. Proutys Fortune,
by Theodore r. Jenness, is the story of how n
plucky girl helped young tramp to become .
respectable man. The Boy Chicken with its
three pretty pictures will please the little boys,
while the big boys can learn good deal about
manners from the illustrated article About
Hats. Punch ia capital, and J. G. Francis has
another of his irresistible drawings, No Dinner.
Mr.. Sweet Potatoes, by Mrs. wingate, and
Lettings and Hindrances, by Mrs. Macy are
capital bits OF life in foreign countries. Tho
Story of English Literature, by Mrs. Lille, has
an excellent account of the days of Addison
and Steele. The number, as usual, has its
fine illustrated poems. Besides The Doves,
there is a very characteristic one, A Hint from
Homer, by Mrs. s. M. B. Piatt, and quaint,
old-time ballad, The Laste Battel of the Laste
Knyghtes, by j. K. Nutting with humorous
illustrations by Hopkins, who also has some
capital drawings for the Twelfth Misfortune of
Miss Muslin of Quintillion Square. Ella Far
man, Editor. d. Lothrop & Co., Publishers,
ROst0n.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

The Virginia legislature convened yesterday
in extra session.
A half breed Indian in Towands, Pa,
claims to have Charley Ross in his possession.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the
Dominion.
1t is believed Senator Kellogg will prevent
the confirmation of ex-senator Foote as super
intendent of New Orleans mint in place of ex-
Gov. Hahn.
At the Vershire, VT, copper mines an
Englishman name unknown was killed by
the fall Of huge rock and John Bitter fear
fully injured.
Whaling bark Midas OF New Bedford, mas
been condemned on account Of being leaky.
British bark John Piele, Bull Run for Lon
don. was abandoned November 10Th. Crew
Saved
The California Constitution al convention
yesterday adopteda memorial to the President
against the proposed Frauco-American com
mercial treaty as prejudicial to the agricultural
interests Of California.
Mr. Corbin, brother-in-law OF Grant, say
the story OF the Kingship ld Bulgaria beinf
offered him is too funny, an that Grant Wi
not stand in the way of any ,thsr Republican
T. H.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

AN exchange gives an account of ga sad
dog" in San Francisco called "Whisky
Straight" At two months he developed a
taste for beer, and now he is devoted to all
sorts of liquor from absnthe down to porter,
and wakes strong and fat thepon. After a
spree he appears morose and sullen till he
has had drink or two of whisky, when he
cheers up and frisks around in the lveliest
manner. Additional potations, however,
change his mood; he becomes cross and
quarrelsome, and finally falls into a condition
of drunken. stupidity. There are many ''sad
dogs" sad, bad, mad dogs, of that kind here
abouts. Some of them however are only
puppies as yet.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
What Mr.. Murch is Going to Do.

Representative Murch addressed the Work
ingmen's Assembly in Washington Tuesday
evening. He spoke about the granite cutters
of Maine, of their organization aud its infiu-
encs. He proposed In his seat in Congress to
vindicate the cause of the laboring man. He
was not politician, bat representative of the
workingmen everywhere, to whose interest he
proposed to give his attention. He gave de-
scription of the immense granite interests of
Maine, and how labor is organized there, and
said it would be his effort to effect the objects
sought to be obtained by them, which was
eight hours for a days labor and fair and reas-
enable compensation for it. He had asked the
corporation of the workingmen Of the District
of Columbia in his efforts, and said that during
his term he would take pleasure in meeting
with them. He said that by an order issued
from the Treasury Department laborers on the
granite works were forced to labor ten hours
per day, which, in his opinion, is not only un-
Just, but illegal, and he believed the Uoited
States was indebted to the granite cutters many
thousands of dollars, which, he proposed should
be paid them for extra work.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

THE Bangor Commercial tells the country
that "The popularity of Wade Hampton in
South Carolina is immense. The negroes Of
that Stats seem to love and revere him as the
negroes of the South did Gen. Washington
when he was President" That is as thin as
the tissue-paper tickets bearing Hamp.on's
name with which the South Carolina ballot
boxes were stuffed by the Democrats. Is il
Wade Hampton's patriotic services in 1861
65 that command the love and reverence o.
the freedmen?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

THE New York Times concisely expresses
the situation when it remarks that the sec
immediate cause is thing apart from the
issue which received its quietus at the hands
of the Hayes administration. 1t is not the
North against the South; it is the South
in unprovoked antagonism to the federal Law
and authority, to the rights of a large proper
tion of its own citizens, and to the instinc-
tive sense Of freedom and justice which in
this controversy the North expresses.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

SIR ROBERT GARDEN, London magis-
trate, is one of the latest railers at women's
dress. "The most monstrous things in the
yorld," he declares, "are the ladies' pock-
ets." They are, he says, "really an induce
ment to thieves" and he added that often
when he walked about the streets and saw
these curiously-placed receptacles and the
articles that were placed in them, he felt
tempted to 'pick them to show how easily it
could be done," Sir Robert ID man for the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. s.

We do not read anonymous letters 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
muncations that are not used,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

SIX contested election cases will come up
before the House this session for action
They are: South Carolina, Tillman vs.. Smalls,
Richardson VS.. Rainey; in the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania District, Nutting VS.. Riley; in
Florida, Finney VS.. Bisbee; in Alabama
HARRISON vs.. Shelley; in Missouri, Frost VS..
MetcalE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

THE Bangor Commercial takes up the
cudgels for Major Smith and defends him
against the attack of Chase's Chronicle. The
Commercial says the Greenback candidate
has not changed his financial views one iota
since the late campaign, and that now as last
summer, he stands squarely and firmly on
the Lewiston Greenback platform" Does
Major Smith accept the doctrine advanced by,
the Nationals at the Washington conference
and "denounce the resumption of specie pay
ments as fraud and delusion impractical
in this or any civilized country?" 1t seems
hardly worth while though to waste words in
denouncing impractical fraud" Perhaps
the Commercial will give us Major Smiths
views on those practical frauds, ballot-box
stufiDg in South Carolina and intimidation
of voters in Louisiana.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

SUGGESTION by Secretary Sherman to the
Democratic House: Reducing appropriations
does not reduce expenditures when the law
requires service and fixes compensation"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS is furnished
with Gard certificate couDtersigned 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
ournal,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

The New York Sun has discovered that
the negroes of South Carolina are seriously
minded to petition Congress to distranchise
them. As they are not permitted to exercise
the right of suffrage they do not care to add
TO Democratic Congressional strength.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Commercial Bulletin; 1t must have been
after Thanksgiving dinner that Macbsth e1-
claimed, "Hens, horrible shadow, Hsnsp'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Four bills to make the trade dollar legal
tender have already been offered in the
House.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

= Boston Post: The bicycle is unknown
around the North Pole. Up there they ride on
icycles.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

LOOK out for squally weather in Congress.
The Southern election frauds will provoke
bitter discussi n.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
News and Other Items.

THE agitation for the repeal of the tobacco
tax has already begun.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

HAD it not been for the payment OF the
Halifax award the reduction last month in
the public debt would have been over S2,O0O,-
Onn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

TOUCHING scene in the Senate Tuesday
recorded by the Washington correspondent of
the Boston Herald: In the Senate to-day,
Senator Blaine went to Senator Thurman
and asked him why he insisted that his
(Blaine's) resolution to investigate the recent
election should 60 over for day. Mr.. Thur
man intinated that he thought the resolu.
tlon OF the Senator from Maine was blamed
nonsense. "You misunderstood the object
of my resolution" said Mr.. Blaine; 81 don't
care about investigating the elections in South
Carolina and Virginia, but my friend, Ben
Butler, has said that there was intimidation
in Massachusetts,; that the factory owners
prevented their operatives from voting for
the peoples candidate. If that is so, want
to find 1t out. The purity of the ballot in
Massachusetts must and shall be preserved"
MIR. Thurman did not reply. He gently
rubbed the top of his nose with his red ban
dana handkerchief, and dropped the outer
corner Of his right eye. Mr.. Blaine, also
overcome with emotion, stepped rapidly over
to the Republican side of the chamber,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

THE major ty of the Cabinet favor the
transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War de-
partment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
Ca9h Assets Over
sS6,OOO,OOO |

The following results of Policies recently paid by
us show the superior advantages of insuring with
this GRS AT Company. The annual cash diyi-
dends in all these cases. exceeded the annual prem
1ums varying from 100 to 150 per cent. These poll
cies were accordingly more than selfsustaining.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

KENTUCKY considers her peanut crop
more profitable than her tobacco crop.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

New Hav Register; The Washington
Monument has one part of it finished. That is
the fund-that was used up long ago.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
Mr.. HALE's reply to Fernando Wood We'd

Mr.. HALE's reply to Fernando Wood We'd
nesday was sharp retort. He reminded the
Democratic side of the House that British
Ministry had been often hurled from power
for permitting the violation of the rights of a
single British subject, either at home or
abroad, and yet the President was blamed be-
cause he called attention to the fact that
thousands of American citizens had been de-
prived of their rights. The question would
not and should not be allowed to be put down
in that way. The President had honestly
and earnestly done, in the direction of concil-
iatlon, what many of his party friends be-
lieved unjust in Withdrawing the troops from
the South, but in which others of his party
friends sustained him, and on the heels of it
there had taken place in South Carolina and
Florida and other Southern States what the
President had called the attention of Con-
gress to. He would tell the gentleman that
on the great fundamental doctrine of the pro-
lection of the citizen in all his rights there
was no Radical or Conservative wing in the
Republican party, but there was one party in
the land united to man on the proposition
that the American citizen, North, South, and
everywhere, should be protected in the exer-
else Of his constitutional rights.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Michael Curdy was run over by the care at
Keens, N. H., Tuesday night aAa instantly
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Utica Republican: A negro soothsayer once
told Calhoun that no man whose name began
with O. could be President. That's why
Cphertilden never got there.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

N. Y. World: The man whose offenss was
rank was probably guillotined during the Reign
of Terror.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Boston Travellers snow you Hamerican
gents" said the master Of ceremonies at Hall
fax to party of American visitors, "sfors you
are hintroducsd to lis hexcelleucy an FER royal
'ighness there's q few rules to be hobserved.
Don't expectorate hon the carpet has you're in
the 'abit of doing at 'ome, you know, and don't
keep your 'ats on, as you Railways do In Ha-
merica. And no revolvers nor bowie knives is
hallowed to be drawed in the presence OF lis
hexcellency and 'er royal 'ighness wich is what
you're adding Of in Congress continually.
And you'll walk in forward, and you won't
think of shaking hands with FER royal 'ighness
nor even with is hexcellency; nor hof course
you won't hadress i'm as old hoss' nor old
sardine,' as hif you was talkin to your prssi-
dent, you know. You'll simply bow an assume
hattitude of reverence, so far as you know
'ow, and then retire backward out of the royal
nraaence ,,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
Cap and Bells.

I've tried the best
In East and West,
I've lunched meath tropic sun.
Pve tasted all
The fruits thai all,
And like them every one;
But. North or South,
No human mouth
will the world apprise,
Fer tasted food
One half as good
As New England pumpkin pies.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

The season for parties has arrived. and those
who have 1T in mind to have some will thank rs
for Publishing the following recipe, which we
find in the Cincinnati Breakfast Table: Take
al the ladies' and gentlemen you can get, pas
them into room with a small fire, and stew
them well; have ready twelve packs of cards, q
piano, q handful of prints and drawings, and
throw them in front from time to time; Is the
mixture thickens, sweeten with politeness and
season with wit, if you have any; IL not, fiat
terry will do well and is very cheap; when all
have stewed fer an hour, add ices, iellies,
cakes, lemonades and wine.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

No other Company has ever shown such results,
No safer or be ter investment can be made than in
Policy with this old Company. no23d3w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

An admirer of Ingerson got hold of that
paragraph in which 1t is related how Bob keeps
pocketbook in drawer where his children
can go and get what money they want at any
time, and he read it at the supper table to his
wife and children and told how much he sd.
mlred the man for it. The next morning when
ne woke up he discovered his youngest boy
going through" his pantaloons pockets.
what are you doing there, young man?' he
exclaimed in voice of thunder "Why, pa
replied the youngster, 81 couldn't find your
pocketbook in any of the drawers, and
thought you must have forgot to lay 1t out"
Theory is one thing and practice another.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

New York Mail Jack Frost will soon be con
Dec.'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05
eve shalt eat Wajiwa meat
To-day, Oh no!
We shal eat Wajlwa meat
To-day fD

If the German traveller could have met
these merry gentlemen, he would indeed
have seen noble race: men free from all
trflng prejudices of society or creed. And
this royal savage of the great Congo Valley
can rise up and say with Abou ben Adhem
* Write me then
As one who loves his fellow men!" Yum! Yum!
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Darlington Hawkeye: "Sir," said a weary
tramp to the gentleman who stands behind the
counter at the Barrett house. "Sr, I am .
social conundrum." Then exclaimed Bell,
pointing sadly toward the door, "Then never
more be guessed of mine"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Burlington Hawkeye: Look out, Mr.. Edi-
sos, the proof-reader of The Hawksye has In
vented a"borophone," by which he can tell the
instant man enters the sanctum, whether he
is going to stop his paper or sit down ard read
aloud from an exchange six days old.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Hackensack Republic Not long ago they
hung over the front gate for hours; but now
they just smack once or twice, and away be
goes down street on dog trot.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Cincinnati Saturday Night: An exchange
says the Afghan tribes are-mad to attempt re-
sistsnce to England. But you must remember
there are nomad tribes In Afghanistau.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Overheard on a ferryboat: Everything has
gone wrong with A. T.. Stewards affairs
since his death. If the old man had bsen alive
the st. Marks churchyard outrage never would
have occurred"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Boston Transcript: It is astonishing what
whopping lies young folks will give and take
during courtship. The trouble with a good
many marriages is that the parties quit lying
when they enter matrimony
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-05

Punch: Eminent coach Ito favorite pupil,
Now look here, Adams; if you will only work
hard with me for six months, promise you
three gears complete holiday at Oxford.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-07
"Walkius Cases. of Yellow Fever.

lrrOm tue lnulauapOL5 herduJ
A New Orleans physician, in private letter,
writes us that he follows the old treatment in
yellow fever, and has had over g hundred cases,
with only 16 deaths Two of the latter were
"wslking cases." The term is technical one,
understood in yellow fever districts. A "walk-
ing case" is patient who refuses to go to bed
and keeps his feet until he drops dead. Some
times he refuses to ad init he has yellow fever;
sometimes be realizes that he has the dread
disease and despars of recovery from the start.
Sometimes the "walking cass'' manfests the
most abject fear, and again he displays the
courage and indifference of . soy led out to
execution. Sometimes the walking" is con-
fined to the patients chamber, and then again
he roams the streets, with the seal of death on
his brew, the dreadful black vomit oozing from
his lips-an object of horror to all whom he
common feature of life in New Orleans during
the prevalence of an epidemic. Many who
passed through the fearful ordeal of 1858, in
which nearly 5000 victims perished, will re-
member the case of John O., a Memphis
printer. He was q man of splendid physique
love affair had made him reckless. He devel-
oped "walking case" of yellow fever, and
for two days and nights Ioamed the streets and
frequented the drinking-houses of the city, in
spite of all his friends could do, finally falling
on the street. and dying before he could he
conveyed to his lodgings. He would wipe the
black vOmit from his lips, hold mp the handker-
chief, critically examine the horrible exudatiop,
and remark with grim humor shat his ''coffee"
didn't agree with him that morning. Death is
dreadful at best, but disease presents so great
horror as "walking case" Of yellow fever.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-07
News and Other Items,

The Boston High School has been awarded
medal at Paris.
Asbury house, Asbury Park, Y j., has been
burned. Loss $1,000.
Geo. B. Milligsn is Republican candidate for
Congress from the second Maryla district.
The Treasury at New Yark paid 100000
for interest, and $4,000 for bonds, Saturday.
A Denver special states that Pitkin and Bel
ford will probably have 2So0 to 5000 majority.
A fire at Junction City, Oregon, Saturday,
burned Gilmore's hotel and six other buildings
Loss $4,000.
The Socalstc Labor party in New York on
Friday night, nominated Alexander Jones for
Mayor.
U. S. steamship Plymouth sailed for Santa
Cruz, Saturday, to protect property of Ameri.
can residents
Senator Burnside, Jadge J. G. Abbott, Of
Boston, Lord Cover. Of England, Governor
Paige of Vermont, and Governor Dingley Of
Maine, are in New York.
Saturday afternoon d. ID. Driscoll, beat Sui.
livan and Cofbett in a single scull race On the
Merrimac river, winning the gold medal of
the Merrlmac River Boating Association.
A number of colored boys in Washington,
about IL years of age, had difficulty, Friday,
during which one named Henry Watson shot
aud killed another named James Walker. Sew
eral boys were arrested.
A discussion between Robar. Otaig, pound
keeper, in Brooklyn, and Charles SIMS, a DOG
catcher, Saturday Afternoon, resulted in Craig
shooting Sim fatally to prevent Sims from
stabbing him.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-07
,ERMs $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

matter are so numerous that the Secretary finds
II impossible to reply in detail to each inquirer.
De has ID consequence had photographs made.
both OF the compound interest notes which
have been redeemed with greenbacks, and the
l-5O ponds which never went into circulation,
in order that the difference NAV be seen by
comparing the two. The former is the once fa-
miliar note bearing in broad gilt letters across
its face Compound interest,"" The other il an
unwieldy coupon bond, three times the size Of
an ordinary bank bill, and which very few peo-
pie who have not themselves bought Govern
ment bonds as an investment will remember
ever to have seen. The 1908 were never made
legal tender.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-07
WANTS
50Laborers Wanted

A PPLY at tho office of the Portland Water
"A Company, No 33 s'lum 81 Portiau I'd.
sepl4 dit