The Portland daily press., 1878-03-20
Current Comment.

The San Francisco Alta thinks that Cali
fornia will retain the gold standard, notwith-
standing the silver bill.
The New Hampshire sheriff thought he
had hanged the wrong man after seeing La
RACES portrait in the Boston papers.-Bos.
ton Post.
Mr.. R. 81. Dana, in his closing argument
before the Fisheries Commission, said: "My
country stands ready to pay anything that
TINS Commission may say 1t ought to pay"
There Is every indication that the contest
OF next fall for the control of the Forty-sixth
House of Representatives will be the most
interesting and important Congressional can
vass ever held.-Washington Post.
Aleck Stephens, interviewed by reporter
of the Washington Republican, said he
always thought that secession was right of
the States, but he opposed 1t because 1t was
bad policy. Then Mr.. Stephens turned to
one OF his delightful little speeches aud be-
gan to read. He is reading yet. The re-
porter is dead.-Bufalo Express.
'What is your purpose in the future re-
garding those murderersa' 81 shall make it
my object in life to use all legal means to
bring them to justice, and shall teach my
children the same thing. Clay has suffered
too much to need any instruction from me.
Willie cannot forget the terrible day on which
he was made an orphan and his only sister
was murdered for the cause of TRUTH
Judge Chisolm's Wido,o.
We beg leave to commend to Democratic
shriekers about Federal extravaganza the
fact that 1t cost New York city in 1877
$1,1S7,S25 for the judiciary, while the esti-
mate sent to Congress for the whole judicial
system of the United States for 1878 was
only 1891 300, or about one third of the ex-
penditure OF New York city.-Bufdlo Com
nserciaI.
Nice looking girl on that dollar,-none of
your pale graduates" but robust miss
with tan on her cheek and briers and things
wopsed in her hair, as though she had just
come from berrying. But the "blarsted Eng-
lishman" Just wreaked bis vengeance to the
full on the eagle. Eight cents! We should
think tie whole Alabama award had been
taken out of him. Let us put up counter
claim.-Sprinaeeld Republican.
"How do you like the Presidents" I asked,
yesterday, wise old journalist, who is nom
partisan, and who has seen many Presidents
come and go. "Oh, like the President first
rate; but don't like the attitude of this
Administration" ''What is the attitude of
this Administration 1 asked. The wise
old man dropped his pocket handkerchief on
the floor, in confused, shapeless heap, and
said, "Well, that's about the attitude of the
Observation-Disclosures, mushy" l am
AFRAID thsi is too Washington Letter.
When the bibulous Virginian was escorted
from the House by the sergeant-at- arms, he
paused moment in the cloak room and asked
himself Websterially, "Where shall go?"
Then with meaning smile he Strengthened
himself up, knocked his hat on with vim,
and meandered over to the Senate chamber,
where he sought to make himself congenially
at home. But he got no sympathy there.
''What disgraceful spectacle" said the Ro-
man senators sternly. 'Drunk at noon.
Shocking Shocking! Now if it were the mid
die OF an all night session, why then, to be
sure, but now there is really no excuse" and
he was hustled out iu no time. -Washington
Star.
Gail Hamilton has been skipping the death
dance about Dorman B. Eaton for a couple
OF weeks, occasionally throwing her toma-
hawk dangerously close to his head, or pin
ming him to the earth with knife through
his overcoat. At last she has given him the
coup de grace, and his bleeding scalp hangs
at her belt and incarnadines her triumph
ant way. She classes Mr.. Eaton's cries
OF corruption with the old woman's plaint:
"When you have taken away my total de-
pravity you have taken all the comfort out of
my religion" and says his objection to par
tlsaaship only obtains against partisanship
Stf4t - Ma efde- ia ea>d.t but
We fear it is true.-Boston Post.
The Concord Monitor says: The Republic
can victory in New Hampshire is due, first
to the energy with which the campaign had
been conducted, alike by the Republican
press of the State and by the Republican
State Committee; second, to the popularity
Of our candidates; third, to the clearly estab-
lished fact that the Southern white South is
aiming at supremacy in the natianal Govern
ment through the Democratic party, thereby
not only reversing the results of the war, but
opening the Federal Treasury to Southern
war indemnities of an almost limitless magni-
tune; fourth, to the rottenness of the Demo
cratic platform, which adopted the rebel in
depreciation of State rights, a financial plank
upon which infationists and anti-resump.
tiOnists might stand, and temperance plank
which was '.nether fish, flesh, fowl nor good
red herring.