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KEEPING BOAR @E&2

Usually when a woman n.achcS
the end of her resources; when her
husband dirs-or Iivcs-insOIvent;
when her only inheritance is fur.
nishcd house with an attachment not
OF the sentimental sort; when her
stocks have declared their last divi-
dcnds. and the savings bank in which
she confded against a rainy day has
failed her-she makes up her mind
to take boarders, not without some
qualms, perhaps, as to the gentlIlty
of the step. She reminds us, at this
stage, of the busy bee in the juven.
lie verse:
GLOW cheerfully she builds her cell,
How neat she spreads her wax,
And laborS hard to store it well
With the sweet food she makes
Her opening is full of promise;
she sees herself in the far future re-
tiring upon a well-earned competen
cv, with something handsome to leave
her heirs, or Borriboola. Cha, as her
taste inclines; her table groans with
a generous supply; boarders flock
beneath her wings; she begins to
consiecr herself in clover, till the
months bills falls due. And what a
fall is that The income, alas {. will
not cover the outgo; the pattern is
too scant, it needs piecing out, and
she has no material to match; it has
no elastic property, and cannot be
stretched to meet the emergency.
Then she begins to retrench; every
day she cuts off luxury. Her ta-
bic groans no longer, but her board
ers do. She curtails her expenses,
and passes sleepless nights over the
problem, "How to keep boarders
and save your soul ?" She resem
bles the woman whose economy con-
sisted in saving an egg, so little
does her retrenchment avail her; she
finds that boardcrs do not believe in
it any more than office seekers; that
they rebel against husks, and insist
on the fatted calf, and expect the
best entertainment at the lowest
price; that their chief anxiety is, not
to pay their bill, bu' lest they should
not get their moneys worth. One
by one her illusions leave ber--so do
her boarders. In tarr. keeping
boarders is no sinecure. Your fami.
ly life is at the mercy of the crowd,
your privacy is invaded, every one
is more at home under your own
roof than yourself; you suffer from
the modes of strangers, from their
tyranny; you cannot even choose
your company, but must accept such
as fortune-or misfortune - sends
and it often sends those who are nc
better bred than to berate your re
ligion, your politics, and your house
keeping at your own table; who are
proverbally hard to please in pro
portion to the meanness of their for,
mer modes Of living; who, being
used to short commons at home
make hue and cry about boarding.
house fare lest somebody should sus
pect the truth. In short, there is nc
more grinding, thankless, unprofta'
BILE business. Nature never intend
ed that man should board, or WON
an either.
, 1878-09-12

The total number of inhabitance in
Nez Perce county, idaho, which in.
cludes Lewiston, is 2,793. The mum.
ber of taxpayers is 577, and the valu
alton of property is $507,64l.
, 1878-09-12

Two numbered and fifty raw doc.
tors steped across the threshold in
Philadelphia few days ago, and are
now calmly, patiently, even cheer.
fully waiting for the first green ap-
piles to appear.
, 1878-09-12

Ben Butler is hot. He protests
that he will have nothing to do with
Kearney. He said to reporter on
Wednesday: "You can't expect roses
from thistles."
, 1878-09-12

rs PREPARED TO MAKE UP GENTS
/ Clothing according to the latest
fashions. Special attention paid to re-
pairing and cleaning. Terms moderate.
Has constantly on hand a lot of fine
French Cloths and Cassimeres, Oregon and
Mission CasSimeres, from which parties
can select for themselves.
Ca orders from distance promptly at
tended to.
Parties wishing to buy the best Sewing
Machine should call on John p. Peterson,
Port Townsend, and examine the New
White. Mr.. Peterson will he pleased TO
show all about the machine and give full
instructions free. Every machine war
ranted to please. -
JOHN p. PETERSON,
Agent, Port Townsend.
SAINT HILL. 10 Montgomery ST.,
San Francisco, Gen Ag't Pacific coast
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
Current Comment.


Mr.. Stewart L. sWoodford advocates the
election of "Congressmen at large" Too
many of them are at large now.-Hartord
Courant.
"Prof" Wilcox, Congressman Gloyer's
boss s'expert" in his remarkable investiga-
.tions, has at last induced Clerk Adams to
pay him $3.50 out OF the Congressional ap-
preparation for oil and fuel-a little Irregular
ity which Mr.. Adams will probably have TO
explain when Congress meets next winter.
Congressman Cox, of Ohio, declines posi-.
lively to be a candidate again because OF his
desire to return to the practice of his pro-
fession as lawyer. An effort has been made
to induce Congressman Foster to run In Mr..
Cox's district, but he declines, and announces
that he will run again in his own district,
despite the fact that the Democrats have SO
gerrymandered it as to show a majority of
nearly 5000 against him.
General Ewing believes the Potter inquiry
will last all summer and that it has already
unearthed great deal of fraud. Hc ne
elected to explain to the Graphic reporter,
with these remarks, what kind of fraud 1t
was, but he probably meant the Democratic
attempts to buy an elector at any price and
auywnete. 1etndpS, enouSu, no neanb Au-
derson, for nobody can deny that he repre-.
sents great deal of fraud"
Senator Thurman had his own way in the
Ohio Democratic convention. His rivals
wished to remove John G.. Thomp-
son from the craftsmanship of the
State Committee, because OF his de-
votion to Thurman, but they did not
succeed. The fight was an open one and
the Senator's triumph shows that he is
strengthening himself for the harder fight
which will come iu 1880, when he seeks for
resolution instructing the Ohio delegation to
the National Democratic Convention to cast
its vote for him for President.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

GENERAL FL. V. BoYNToN, one of the
most careful of Washington correspondents,
sends to the Cincinnati Gazette letter ON
the tendencies of the Democratic party in the
last Congress. He insists that nothing but
fear that extreme measures would leopard
their success in the next elections prevented
the Democrats from revealing their full pur-
poses. One of these was to break up the
army and clear the way for Democratic re-
organization with exrebel material. "Be-
yond any question:" he says, sit is the fixed
purpose of the Democrats, so soon as they
Lave control of both branches of Congress, to
claim places in the army for ex-rebels, to
place them on the pension rolls, to admit
them to the national military asylums, and
in short, to give them full share In what
ever the nation has done, or is doing, for
Union soldiers or their heirs" On the ques-
tion Of Southern claims he IS equally en-
phatic, saying: "An immense payment of
Southern claims will begin at once whenever
the Democrats secure both branches of Con-
gress. 1t is quite the style in many quarters
to sneer at those who make this assertion; !;
but for all that, those who are only surface
observers here cannot fail to see that such
payments are settled part of the Democrats
ic plann
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
The Florida Case.

Inc testimony before the Potter commit
tee last week effectually disposes of the
''Forida case" In all that testimony there
is no evidence that the state was not justly
counted foy Hayes, or thai bargains OF any
description were made by the Republican
leaders with the local politicians. Minister
Noyes has been completely vindicated, and
the only honorable course for the committee
to pursue is to publicly acquit him of the
charges brought against him. He went TO
Florida to secure an honest count, and sue
ceeded. He made no promises of reward to
the men who canvassed the votes, though he
does seem to have assured them that they
should bo protected in the discharge of their
duty. Nor are the other "visiting states
men, implicated in any frauds or irregulari-
ties. The witnesses upon whom the Demo
Gratis relied did not dare under oath to repeat
the wild statements they have been so freely
making during the last few months. 1t came
out in the course of Fridays testimony that
the reason Dennis gave for refusing to testify
in Florida was not that his testimony would
ruin the Republican case, but that he had
fears.of his personal safety. Throughout
the proceedings connected with the count he
insisted to General Noyes that the state had
gone Republican.
The investigation has developed nothing
new in regard to the alleged frauds in Ala.
chua county. The facts in regard to the
vote of the Archer precinct were bronght ont
long since, and the testimony of Dennis adds
nothing to them. In that precinct 219 votes
were, it appears, added to the poll list to
counterbalance Democratic stufing of the
ballot boxes. The number of Republicans
who voted that day, and testified to the vot-
ing, was greatly in excess of the number of
Republican ballots at first returned. In
stead of thoroughly demonstrating the fraud
at the time the Republican local canvassers
went to work irregulariy and credited the
Republicans with all the votes cast by them.
The result was substantial justice, but #
should have been achieved in different way.
No one will undertake to defend the manner
in which the Republican canvassers attempt
ed to correct the great wrong put upon them.
There is no doubt of the Democratic frauds.
In the investigation which grew out of the
contested election case of Findley against
Bisbee, the former offered to call as witnesses
those who voted at the Archer precinct to
prove that frauds had been committed by the
Democrats during the day OF the election
which were not fully counterbalanced by the
addition Of votes by the Republican canvass
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

"The uery man OF all others aoho has the
deepest interest IN sound currency, and
aoho suffers most by mischieuous legislation in
money matters, is the man avho earns his dai-
ty bread By his daily toll. a deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling betloeen morning and noon, and fal-
ling still lo,uer bet,oeen noon and night, these
things constitute the very harvest time Of spec
ulators, and Of the ,ohole race Of those aoho are
at once idle and crafty. A dis0r-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
eoils. Hundermines the uirtues necessary for
the support Of the social system, and encow-
ages propensities destructive to its hnppiEess.
1t aodrs against industry, trugality and econ
omy, and it fosters the euI spirits Of e1trau-
agdnce and speculation. Of all the contri-
uaraces for cheating the laboring classes Of
mankind, none has been more efectual than
that which deIudes them aoith paper money.
This Is the most efectual Of intentions to fer
tilize the rich man s fields ba the ssseat-ef the
poor -ssse,s's-6roto. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessire taration, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared ,oitb
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted By deprecated paper. ."-Daniel
Webster.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

THE Bangor Commercial grows merry over
the argus report that the Democrats Of Pen
obscot are to make an earnest fight for the
nominee of the Portland Convention and
says: ''We are glad to learn that there is lots
of enthusiasm down here in 'factious' Penob-
scot county over the platform and nomlna-
tion of the late Portland Convention. The
Portland Argus has the news and we hasten
to lay it before our readers. Our usually in
dustrious and wide-awake reporter seems to
have overlooked it. But the argus has its
Information from sources entirely reliable,'
and hence it will prove doubly gratifying to
the Democracy of Penobscot."
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

"THe loss ao7ich Anaerica has sustained since
the peace, aoaa The pestilential effects of ire
deenadble paper money, on the neeessarv conf
dence beteceen men, on the necessary confidence IN
Mepublic councils, on the industry and morals Of
the people and on the character of republican qov-
ernnent, constitute an enormous debt against the
States chargeabEe aoitb this u,aadUased measure,
wlach must remain asatisfed, or rather 1t is an
accumulation ofguih aozich can be erpidted no
otherooise than by voluntary sacrifice on the a.
ar of justice of the poaosr aotich has been the in
Str1gnent cf n,-Jdnes Madison.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

As very important source of strength
and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving il is to nse il as
sparingIy as possible; avoiding occasions
of expense by cultivating peace, but re-
membering also that timely disbursements
10 prepare for danger frequently prevent
much greater disbursements 10 repei IL
avoiding likewise the accumulation OF
debt, not only by stunning occasions Of
expense, but by vigorous exertions in time
of peace to discharge the debts which un-
avoidable wars may have occasioned, mot
uugeuerousiy throwing upon posterity the
bmrden which we ourselves ought TO bear.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

IT is the journal Of Commerce which
says that the men in New York who are
shouting ''bread or lead" spend enough on
tobacco and beer every day to buy dozen
loaves of bread, and it adds: "If these Com
munists had half the stomach for fighting
tina. they have for eating aud guzzling, they
would be really dangerous"
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
JAMES BUCHANAN.

"Such medium (irredeemable paper mon
ey,) has always been liable to fuctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in.
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
GUS speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and man. Chief Justice Mar
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

"A return TO specie payments af the earli-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard to all interests concerned, should ever
be kept in view. Fluctuations i'm the value
of currency are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations to the lowest pos
sible point will always be N leading pur-
pose i'm wise legislation. C0nverfibility,
prompt and certain convertibilify into
coin is acknowledged 10 be the best and
surest safeguard against them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
ALEXANDER HAMILTON,

1t (paper money! tends to dggrarate the
inequality Of fortunes; TO make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
paapers, and to deepen and ,oiden the gulf
aclich separated Diues from Lazarus.-Thom-
as II, Benton.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

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 a favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
POLAND MINERAL
SPRING WATER.

We have made arrangements to
receive fresh from the spring this
celebrated water Mondays and
Thursdays, and deliver to any
part of city, same day as taken
from the spring, in quantities of
= gallons or more at store price.
Orders by postal card or other
wise, promptly attended to.
I'll. TEL. KICKER 6 CO., Agents,
LIS Fore Street.
je1s dit
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

hrredeemable paper money 'converis the
business of society into n mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, as come il must,
il casts laborers out Of employment. crush
es manufacturers and merchants and
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
citizens.v
uAUuES
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

"Capital may be produced by Industry and
accumulated by economy, but only jugglers
will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks
with r."-Thomas Jefferson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 1.

We do not read anonymous etters and communl-
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., 1878-07-01

a paper currency is a great curse to any
people and q particular curse to the laborer
Of dny country, for its depreciation al,oays
falls upon the lab0rer.-Andre,o Jackson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
REAL ESTATE.

AHANY " TO loan on first class Real Estate
M1O4S T. y Security, in Portland, or vi
einity. Rents collected, taxes paid, &c on Com
mission. Apply to T. &. PATTERSON, Dealer in
Real Estate. 379t Congress Street. no1Sdtf
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

Paper emissions by the government are
of n nature SO Liable TO abuse, 4 may say
so certain to be abused, that the wisd 0m of
the government will be shown by never
trusting itself w th SO seducing and dan
gerOus power.o
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

THE third-term talk is heard all over the
land,-but this time no one seems frightened
M IL
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
New Modern Style House ON Con
greSS street for Sale or to Let.

Two story house No. Sl6 Congress street, between
Vaughan and Ellsworth, rooms, modern improve
ments, suit of parlors with marble mantes, open
grate bath room finished in ash and black walnut,
wash bowls, hot and cold water in bath room, cham
bers and kitchen, cemented cellar, &c. Price only
$4600 and liberal terms of payment. Rent $3.50 per
year including water. Apply to
f. G PATTERSON, 3794 Congress Street.
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The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
E0r sale.

nN Old Orchard Camp ground, frst-class COT
" TAGE, situated on Sth st. Also new HOUSE,
779 Congress St, ahd house lots on Cumberland St
Portland. Apply to VIM. HAGGETT, III Congress
st, Portland, Me. je25dlw*
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

a VERY desirable front room, with large alcoye.
n Bath room upon same floor. Apply at
jan7dtf COG CONGRESS ST.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
FOR SALE
In DeeriDg, on Ocean Street.

One and one-half story house, with
stable, large lot of iaad, with fruit
trees, good garden. House contains 8
rooms, all flushed, and In good repair,
fine cellar, with cemented floor, and
large cistern. Buildings built within IL
years. VIII be sold at bargain.
For particulars inquire of GEO. A.
SMALL. No LII Plum street, or f. o.
BAILEY u CO., Exchange street.
ie9 DIFF
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
House for Sale.

g. A nice House with modern improvem ents.
H$;:; very pleasantly situated one of the best
GessA streets in the Western part of the city. In
quire of W. c. COBB,
ie21tf % ard 20 Pearl Street.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
ers, but the Democrats did not dare to accept

sAO SSohOhSCs
No one who has fairly studied the case can
doubt that Florida was honestly Republican.
If the investigation has done anything it has
strengthened the proof OF that. This one
branch of the inquiry has terminated favor
ably TO the Republicans. There is every rea-
son to believe that the Louisiana inquiry will
result the same way.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

MOUSE on line of Horse Railroad in Woodtords
II Corner containing seven rooms all in good re-
pair. Enquire of j. III. REED,
my4dtf Woodfords Corner.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
TO Let.

ANE of the best offices on Exchange Street.
" Enquire of GEO. A. WHITNEY 81 CO.,
my14dtf No. 46 Exchange Street.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
10 Let.
&c he Rented,

40 Let.
FJVwO Tenements on Clark Street, No. II. In
Il guire of JOHN SWEETSIR, 5 Neal Street.
mar11 dtI
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
TO LET.

FEsHE house No. 16 High ST.. between Danforth and
u York. JONAS W. CLARK,
je5dtf 55S Congress Street.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
WilIiStOn Chureh Society & Sunday School

Will go on its annual Picnic Excursion,
TUESDAY, Jniy I'd, to Pine Point, via Boston
& Maine r. r. at S45 a. M train. Tickets, 40 cents,
Children - years of age, and under, twenty five cts
Coffee free. Chowder can be obtaiI ed by those who
wish. ALI wanting chowder coffee, will provide
themselves with suitable dishes. A pleasant time is
expected Tickets to be obtained of the committee.
Tickets good on all trains either way. Trains out
S45. 10 a. m. 10 p. m in at 1890, 5 or s p. m.
jy1 dit
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
TO Let for $500
PLEASANT ROOMS TO LET.

QUITE of roomSpn second floor; plenty of sun
- light, air and water. Heat and gas furnished.
Also one room on third floor. References exchanged.
Stable no Let.
Situated in the western central part of city. Ad-
dress l.. Il. T., Daily Press Office.
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The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
Fer sale or Exchange,

SEVERAL desirable and well located houses in
- the city-will sell low or exchange for good
farms. Inquire of JOHN G. PROCrER. je2id3w
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
HALL TO LET.

NMHSSEON HALL, Williams Block (formerly
I'VE known as "Arcana Hall,) having been leased
by the undersigned, will be let most reasonable
terms for Lectures, concerts, Sociables, Meetings,
Suppers, Fairs. &c. Apply at the Hall, opposite
Casco Engine House.
ap1Geodtf r. NJ. BARTON.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

TO Let.
nNE of the most desirable rents on Congress st.
" orpost the park, No. 335. Apply to L.. TAY-
LOR, High street Wharf, jeedtf
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01

Ash 9@ Hauled
A DDREsS r. RECKER,
"A EIbpys Corner, Deering
yme ou
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-01
AT 1Os EXCHANGE ST., PoRTLA

TERMS: Eight Dollars a Year in advance. X
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in adj
vance.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1878-11-20
FoR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
THE WORK OF COLPORTAGE.
BY REV. NJ. W. wooDwoRTH.

The General Assembly in session in Lou
isville, KY, in 1870, ordered: "That the
whole matter of COlpOrtsge," which up to
that time had been managed by the Execu-
tive Committee of Publication, "be commit
ted to the Presbyteries to carry on as they
NAV deem best" The Assembly did well in
making that change, because the Executive
Committee could not prosecute the work
either efficiently or economically; aud also,
because the work itself properly belonged to
the Presbyteries.
The effect of that action was to put q stop
for the time to the whole work. The AS
sembly's Committee could not engage in it,
and the Presbyteries were not prepared for
it. They had neither the means in hand,
nor had they determined upon any method
of work; and as to plan Of operations, even
in this respect the Executive Committee
could give them no aid, Left thus to their
own resources, the most of the PreSbyteries
gave the matter but little attention.
The Presbytery of Winchester, however,
at the stated meeting subsequent to that &C.
ton of the Assembly, directed its Committee
of Publication "to prepare plan of opera
tons, and to report at the next meeting. -
This was done, and the plan thus adopted
went into practical operation in June, 1871
An outline of it is published, by order Of the
Assembly, as an appendix to the fifteenth
Annual Report of the Committee of Publica
tion for 1876, pp. % and 29. And it is sub
stantislly the same as that now recommended
to the Presbyteries by the Committee of Pub
licatiOn. So much for the history. Ant
now l propose an exposition of the plsr
somewhat in detail.
1. The design of the sUOrk. If it be th'